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William Lauder to Employees: We’re Not for Sale!

EL brass shoots down takeover rumors.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Like Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot sightings, and even those creepy clowns that seem to pop up every Halloween, Estée Lauder brass must tamp down rumors of its acquistion on a regular basis. After there was talk that P&G, L'Oréal and Unilever were all ready to bid as much as $40 billion for the US leader in prestige cosmetics (not bad for a company with sales of less than $12 billion), Chairman William P. Lauder and CEO Fabrizio Freda issued the following internal memo to their employee...

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