“You cannot stand still in beauty,” said L’Oréal Groupe chief executive officer Nicolas Hieronimus at the 2025 WWD Beauty Inc Awards, where he received the 2025 WWD Beauty Inc Pete Born Impact Award.

The CEO — L’Oréal’s sixth in its 116-year history — would know.

Since taking the helm in 2021, Hieronimus has furthered the French conglomerate’s position as the biggest beauty company in the world: He’s made acquisitions — including a recent 4-billion-euro transaction to acquire Kering’s beauty properties; launched the L’Oréal Circular Innovation Fund and the L’Oréal Climate Emergency Fund; furthered the company’s investments in emerging technologies and the dermaesthetics space, and more.

And still, as the 2025 Pete Born Impact Award honoree told Beauty Inc editor in chief Jenny B. Fi

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