The major shareholders of L’Oreal are the Bettencourt family (the founders of L’Oreal), and Nestle.
They are largest cosmetics company in the world and the largest food company in the world, respectively. Together they represent approximately $270 billion worth of economic power.
If you are interested to know their vulnerabilities, they provide the information freely.
“L’Oreal’s global supply chain employs around 7,000 people serving 130 markets, fulfilling about 16 million orders annually. It operates 150 distribution centres globally serving some 40 factories, with around half operated in-house and half by third-party logistics providers”
40 factories to 150 distribution centres, filling 16 million orders in 130 markets. If you break these numbers down, on average, one factory can produce goods for approximately 3 markets, to fulfill roughly 400,000 orders annually. We can assume the Egypt factory will service the Middle East, North Africa, and perhaps Mediterranean markets. Doubling production capacity probably aims to also serve sub-Saharan Africa. Clearly, a single factory is of enormous importance to L’Oreal. If you divide L’Oreal’s total sales by the number of markets it serves, each factory should be responsible for approximately $600 million of revenues from the goods it produces. The factory in Egypt is expected to double production over the next 3 years, that will make it worth more than $1 billion to L’Oreal per year.