欧莱雅首席执行官展望未来

 　　欧莱雅首席执行官展望未来

　　And this is where the magic takes place. These are the magicians making sure it happens. L'Oreal wants to make sure Mother Nature remains¹ beautiful. The world's biggest beauty company has announced a sustainability strategy that includes reducing its carbon footprint by 60 percent through to the year 2020. Earlier, I spoke² to L'Oreal's chief exec Jean-Paul Agon who was in Paris, and I asked him when it comes to these strategies, you have to do more than just lip service.

　　-the first few years, we redefined a lot about the L'Oreal Company. We redefined the mission which is to offer beauty to all women and men around the planet. We redefined our strategy which we called universalization. We redefined the objective which is to win over 1 billion new consumers. And now we think it's time also to redefine our commitment in terms of sustainability. And that's why we made this announcement today. A great commitment in terms of sustainability until 2020.

　　-If it hits the bottom line. Now I know there's an argument that says if you do sustainability right, it actually increases profitability over the long run. But in the short run, are you prepared for an increasing cost if that comes along?

　　- If it comes along, yes, but as you just said very truly we really believe that it's a (vicious) cycle. Because in fact sustainability improves your business because you know what we have to understand is that consumers and stakeholders all over the world are now expecting companies to behave sustainably. So for us, it is the only way to go.

　　- We must just finally and very briefly³ talk about economics and what you're seeing in the business. Europe is finally out of recession and growing again. The U.S. has its problems. As you look at your business, how are you going to manage these very challenging economic moments?

　　- In fact for us the beauty market is still growing. Of course the growth is different depending on the regions of the world. There is -- the market is almost flat in Western Europe, but L'Oreal's growing thanks to market share gains. The market is slightly growing 2, 3 percent in the U.S. and North America in general. And we are growing faster than that, thanks again to market share gains. And the market is still very dynamic in many places of the world you know -- in China, in India, in Brazil.

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。