luxury products, shiseido is another deal they have done this year.rket is where the bulk of their revenue comes from, but the faster paced growth tends to be the luxury area. >> the french are good at being aggregators. very similarh, a story. is it very similar, though? .t does not have to do that as l'oreal have to do what it is doing? operandi. modus and china, it is relevant. shiseido is smaller than l'oreal, so for l'oreal to go and buy existing brands, it is important for that market, where their own brand has not been as successful as they would expect it to be. >> why are they not being successful? they are still keeping maybelline. is the chinese buyer -- do they not like brands they do not know ? do they want something like a magic, which is home grown? to the chinese buyer, it is probably the opposite. they know what is happening in there doing a lot of research on the brands. they have a great appetite for brands. garnier asdo not see a relative brand. brands transfer quite well and to china. the chinese have been big buyers of european c

shiseido. deal to buy these are more luxurious spa brands. middle-class, betting big on luxury.orward seems to just be wanting to purchase up and snap up other companies. today we get some numbers. we are expecting first-quarter to be up by 4.4%. slightly slower than last quarter but it is luxury that is set. >> let's see how the numbers turn out later today. "the pulse" is up in just under nine minutes. guy johnson is in the newsroom. we have got these tensions in ukraine. thehe same time, on corporate news story, we have a big story with peugeot. >> and we are going to further investigate snail facemasks. we need to find out more about this. [laughter] >> am i going to be the guinea pig? >> if you want to go that way. i am sure we can make it happen. caroline can whisk some up. that is going to be a great story. we need to make sure we are on top of this eastern ukraine thing. it is turning into something more dramatic than we thought on friday. the latest development in the eastern part of ukraine are certainly worrying. are we looking at crimea 2.0? the emergency meeting las