Office profile
L'Oréal Headquarters & offices · Clichy, France
L'Oréal · Clichy, France
A head office built around a garden in Clichy, a 25-metre glass egg inside an 18th-century Paris mansion — and at least 14 weeks of fully paid leave for every new mother, worldwide.
The buildings, the Share & Care benefits and 117 years of addresses, from a two-room flat to the Clichy campus — then the business. Every number from L'Oréal's own Universal Registration Document, its websites and the architects' pages.
- 33,395 m²Clichy headquarters by Wilmotte & Associés (2014)
- 14 + 6 weeksminimum fully paid parental leave, worldwide
- 67%of employees are women
- 31.6 hoursof training per employee in 2025
Sources: L'Oréal Universal Registration Document 2025 · careers.loreal.com (Share & Care) · Wilmotte & Associés project page
Companies / France / Beauty and cosmetics / L'Oréal
THE HEADQUARTERS · 41 RUE MARTRE, CLICHY · 2014
Three buildings around a garden, with an 11-metre-high glass hall
L'Oréal Espace rebuilt the group headquarters on its own Clichy site, whose main buildings date from 1976–78. Wilmotte & Associés chose not to add density: the three buildings frame a large garden, and a new atrium is the centre of the campus. Inside are a cafeteria, a brand house, a sports and relaxation area, a health service, a company store, a restaurant, a club, an auditorium and “Panorama” meeting rooms. The old laboratories became offices for the marketing teams.
- 33,395 m² (≈ 359,460 sq ft)
- 5,200 m² of green space
- Design: Wilmotte & Associés
- 11 m entrance hall (facades: RFR)
- Landscape: Neveux & Rouyer
- Completed 2014
Facts: Wilmotte & Associés project page “L'Oréal Headquarters” · RFR project page “L'Oréal headquarters” · Address: L'Oréal URD 2025
The Paris-area sites
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (administrative head office) | 41 rue Martre, 92110 Clichy, France |
| Le Visionnaire – Espace François Dalle (registered office) | 14 rue Royale, 75008 Paris, France |
| Global Hair Research Centre | Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), France |
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025 (addresses, registered office) · L'Oréal news release, March 28, 2012 (Saint-Ouen; street address not stated) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Wilmotte & Associés project page · Moatti-Rivière project page and L'Oréal news release (Sept 29, 2023) · L'Oréal news release “L'Oréal inaugurates its Global Hair Research Centre” (March 28, 2012)
Office tour videos
Benefits (Share & Care, worldwide minimums)
At least 14 weeks of maternity or primary-parent leave on full salary, in every country.
At least six weeks of paternity or secondary-parent leave on full salary.
Extends maternity or primary-parent leave to 20 weeks, including four extra weeks paid in full by the company; can be split until the child turns three. Adoption leave too.
Up to two days a week, agreed with the manager and where the job allows.
2025 plan in 62 countries: shares at a 20% discount plus up to 3 free shares for every 6 bought.
Every employee is covered by an Employee Assistance Programme with free sessions with therapists.
A cancer and serious illness policy with salary protection for at least 12 months.
At least 24 months' salary in case of disability or death, and at least 75% reimbursement of major health expenses.
Source: careers.loreal.com “Benefits and wellbeing: Share & Care” · L'Oréal URD 2025, §4.7.3.2.1 and §7.3.3 · L'Oréal news release “10 years of Share & Care” (Nov 16, 2023). Also: at least 3 paid days for caregivers and 1 day a year for family events.
Why people stay: what L'Oréal itself describes
Permanent employees who left during the year (12.9% in 2024).
Every statutory employee took part in learning in 2025, an average of 31.6 hours each, through L'Oréal University and the ONE LEARNING platform.
Participation in the 2025 internal survey; the engagement rate was 78%.
Current and former employees held 11,002,810 shares at the end of 2025; a new worldwide share plan is offered every year since 2024.
Fair Wage Network certified L'Oréal a “Living Wage Employer” worldwide for the third year in a row in 2025.
Employees who completed the “GenAI for All” e-learning by the end of 2025.
Source: L'Oréal Universal Registration Document 2025 (§1.2, §2.4 table of non-financial achievements, §4.7.2–4.7.5, §7.3.3)
Who works here
of strategic positions held by women
people in France — 13,862 in the U.S., 15,628 in China
people in Research & Innovation
on permanent contracts
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, §4.7.5 (CSRD workforce incl. interns and apprentices, 97,583) and §1.3 (research). Percentages calculated by eciffo. Statutory headcount (active employees): 94,610.
Pay at L'Oréal
L'Oréal publishes a ratio, not the amount: the CEO's €11,318,100 was 119 times the median pay of the parent company's employees (6,485 people, mostly managers). Includes variable pay, performance shares and profit-sharing. Amount calculated by eciffo.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, §2.4.2.4 Pay ratios (Article L. 22-10-9 of the French Commercial Code)
L'Oréal publishes headcount by age group but not pay by age.
Office history: from a two-room flat to a garden campus in Clichy
- 1909 A two-room flat on rue d'Alger
Chemist Eugène Schueller founded the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux (“French Company of Harmless Hair Dyes”). He set up in a two-room flat at 3 rue d'Alger in central Paris, which was both his office and his demonstration room.
Source: Founding: L'Oréal URD 2025 §1.1.5 and loreal.com history · Address: Wikipedia (French)
Rue d'Alger, Paris · Mbzt / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1928 Monsavon brings L'Oréal to rue Martre, Clichy
L'Oréal bought Monsavon, a soap maker whose factory stood on rue Martre in Clichy — the street where the headquarters is today.
Source: Acquisition: L'Oréal URD 2025 §1.1.5 and loreal.com (Eugène Schueller) · Factory location: Wikipedia (French)
Rue Martre, Clichy, beside L'Oréal · G.Garitan / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1939 14 rue Royale, an 18th-century building by Ange-Jacques Gabriel
The company took the name L'Oréal and moved to 14 rue Royale, at the corner of rue Saint-Honoré. The facade and roof are listed historic monuments. It remains the registered office.
Source: loreal.com history and Le Visionnaire article (which gives 1938) · URD 2025
Rue Royale, Paris · Britchi Mirela / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1976–78 Offices and research labs on the old Monsavon site
L'Oréal built an office complex and research laboratories on the former Monsavon factory site on rue Martre. These buildings still form the core of the Clichy headquarters.
Source: Wilmotte & Associés project page (buildings 1976–1978) · Wikipedia (French) for the Monsavon site
Rue Martre entrance, Clichy · Photo: Wilmotte & Associés - 2012 A 25,000 m² hair research centre in Saint-Ouen
The Global Hair Research Centre opened in Saint-Ouen with 500 people — one of the largest investments in L'Oréal's research history, at €100 million.
Source: L'Oréal news release, March 28, 2012
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2014 L'Oréal Espace: the Clichy headquarters rebuilt
After an architecture competition, Wilmotte & Associés renewed the Clichy site: 33,395 m², a new atrium as the entrance, and a large garden at the heart of three buildings.
Source: Wilmotte & Associés project page · RFR project page (works 2008–2011)
Clichy entrance, 2014 · Photo: Wilmotte & Associés - 2023 Le Visionnaire opens at 14 rue Royale
Redesigned by Alain Moatti (Moatti-Rivière), the historic building reopened on September 28, 2023 as a 4,200 m² space for culture, training and innovation, with a 750 m² hairdressing academy and a reflective “egg” under a 25 m glass roof.
Source: L'Oréal news release, Sept 29, 2023 · Moatti-Rivière project page
14 rue Royale from above, 2023 · Photo: Moatti-Rivière
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a flat near the Tuileries to rue Royale, then 4 km north to Clichy. The headquarters stands on rue Martre, where L'Oréal has had a factory since it bought Monsavon in 1928.
- 1 · 19093 rue d'Alger, Paris 1st — Eugène Schueller's two-room flat, office and demonstration room
- 2 · 193914 rue Royale, Paris 8th — Head office from 1939; Le Visionnaire and registered office today
- 3 · Today41 rue Martre, Clichy — Group headquarters on the former Monsavon site, rebuilt by Wilmotte (2014)
Addresses: L'Oréal URD 2025 · loreal.com history · rue d'Alger: Wikipedia (French) · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What L'Oréal does
L'Oréal began in 1909 as a maker of safe hair dyes. Today it is the world's largest beauty company: 40 international brands — from L'Oréal Paris and Garnier to Lancôme, La Roche-Posay and Kérastase — sold in more than 150 countries.
Four divisions: Consumer Products, L'Oréal Luxe, Dermatological Beauty and Professional Products.
Where the money came from · Revenue by division, 2025
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, §1.4 (sales by division, € millions: 16,089.7 · 15,595.1 · 7,204.1 · 5,163.0). Brand examples: URD 2025 and L'Oréal annual results releases.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, §1.4.1.3 and §5.1 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo (statutory headcount, note 5.1)
Growth: revenue vs. people
€25.8B → €44.1B
87,369 → 94,610
Calendar years, IFRS, € billions. Sales 2016–2021: L'Oréal annual results releases; 2020–2022: URD 2022; 2023–2025: URD 2025. Employees: statutory headcount at Dec 31 (URD 2022 integrated report; URD 2025 note 5.1); earlier years not checked in official documents. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chief Executive Officer since 2021, when he succeeded Jean-Paul Agon.
CEO with the mission “Beauty for all”; Chairman of the Board today.
Under his presidency L'Oréal became the world leader in cosmetics.
Led the “science of beauty” expansion with heavy investment in research.
Grew L'Oréal from a mid-sized firm into a global leader; Le Visionnaire is named after him.
Founder. A chemist who built the company on research and advertising.
Founder: Eugène Schueller (1909).
Source: loreal.com history and Visionaries pages · L'Oréal news release on Le Visionnaire (2023) · URD 2025 (current roles). Owen-Jones and Agon years follow the eras on loreal.com's history page.
L'Oréal: questions people ask
Where is L'Oréal's headquarters?
The administrative headquarters is at 41 rue Martre in Clichy, just north-west of Paris. The registered office is the historic building at 14 rue Royale in Paris's 8th arrondissement, now called Le Visionnaire.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025
Who designed L'Oréal's headquarters?
Wilmotte & Associés rebuilt the Clichy headquarters (L'Oréal Espace, completed 2014), with RFR for the facades and Neveux & Rouyer for the landscape. Alain Moatti of Moatti-Rivière redesigned 14 rue Royale into Le Visionnaire (2023).
Source: Wilmotte & Associés · RFR · Moatti-Rivière · L'Oréal news release 2023
How big is L'Oréal's headquarters?
The Clichy headquarters covers 33,395 m² (about 359,460 sq ft) with 5,200 m² of green space. Le Visionnaire at 14 rue Royale adds 4,200 m².
Source: Wilmotte & Associés · Moatti-Rivière
What is Le Visionnaire?
L'Oréal's historic head office at 14 rue Royale, an 18th-century building by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, reopened in 2023 as a space for culture, training and innovation: 21 rooms on 5 floors, a hairdressing academy and an egg-shaped room under a 25 m glass roof.
Source: L'Oréal news release, Sept 29, 2023
Can you visit L'Oréal's headquarters?
The Clichy headquarters is not open to the public. Le Visionnaire at 14 rue Royale has opened its doors during France's European Heritage Days (Journées du Patrimoine).
Source: loreal.com Le Visionnaire article
How many people work at L'Oréal?
94,610 statutory employees at the end of 2025 (97,583 including interns and apprentices under the CSRD definition). About two thirds are women.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, note 5.1 and §4.7.5
What benefits does L'Oréal offer?
Through Share & Care, every country guarantees at least 14 weeks of fully paid leave for the first parent and 6 weeks for the second, free counseling, at least 12 months of salary protection for serious illness, and at least 24 months' salary for disability or death. Employees can also buy shares at a 20% discount.
Source: careers.loreal.com · URD 2025
Does L'Oréal allow remote work?
Yes: employees can work remotely up to two days a week, with their manager's agreement and where the job allows.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, §4.7.3.2.1
What is L'Oréal's employee turnover rate?
13.5% of permanent employees left in 2025, up from 12.9% in 2024.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025, §4.7.5.1
Who is L'Oréal's CEO?
Nicolas Hieronimus, Chief Executive Officer since 2021. Jean-Paul Agon is Chairman of the Board. The company was founded by Eugène Schueller in 1909.
Source: L'Oréal URD 2025 · loreal.com history
You have seen the office, the benefits and the pay
Want to work at L'Oréal?
See open jobs on L'Oréal's careers site ↗Or keep exploring: compare these benefits and offices with other companies below.
L'Oréal in our features
- Fashion & beauty · 17 companies17 Fashion, Luxury and Beauty Company Headquarters
- France · 17 companies17 French Company Headquarters, From Paris to La Défense
- History · 275 companiesThen and Now: 275 Companies’ Early Offices Next to Today’s Headquarters
- Video · 126 companiesOffice Tour Videos: Inside 126 Company Headquarters
- Europe · 92 companies92 European Company Headquarters, From Munich to Stockholm
- Benefits · 319 companiesPerks at 319 Big Companies: What They Offer to Keep People
- Headquarters · 29 companies29 New Company Headquarters Opened Since 2016
- History · 130 companiesWhere 130 Famous Companies Started: Garages, Shops and One-Room Offices
- Inside the office · 194 companiesInside 194 Company Cafeterias and Office Cafés
- Architecture · 216 companies216 Company Headquarters Designed by Famous Architects
You may also like
Also in beauty and luxury
Also headquartered in France
Consumer goods giants
More company profiles
3MMaplewood, MinnesotaOffices, pay & benefits → 
ABN AMROAmsterdam, NetherlandsOffices, pay & benefits → 
AccentureDublin, IrelandOffices, pay & benefits → 
adidasHerzogenaurach, GermanyOffices, pay & benefits → 
AdobeSan Jose, CaliforniaOffices, pay & benefits → 
AdyenAmsterdam, NetherlandsOffices, pay & benefits → Photos are credited to their source. If you hold the rights or represent L'Oréal and want a photo changed or removed, contact us. Updated 2026-10-10.
L'Oréal's official social accounts
Official L'Oréal Groupe accounts linked from loreal.com. Brands such as L'Oréal Paris run their own accounts.