when was the cosmetic company whose gift cards are purchasable on GiftCards.com purchased by Dominique Mandonnaud?
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GiftCards.com GiftCards.com is an online gift card retailer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company sells gift cards for thousands of different large corporate retailers and small businesses including Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sephora, Coach, Amazon.com, and others. The company also offers prepaid Visa and MasterCard gift cards. GiftCards.com is considered the largest online gift card retailer and has appeared on the "Inc." 5000 list multiple times (most recently in 2015). The company is currently owned by Blackhawk Network Holdings after its purchase of the retailer in 2016.
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Sephora Sephora first launched in Paris in a partnership between the UK's Boots PLC and Nouvelles Galeries as a perfumery chain in 1970. It was purchased by Dominique Mandonnaud in 1993, who merged the purchase with his own perfume chain under the Sephora brand. Mandonnaud is credited for founding and implementing Sephora's "assisted self-service," sales experience, which departed from then-typical retail models for cosmetics by encouraging customers to try products in-store before purchasing.
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Ann Summers Ann Summers is a British multinational retailer company specialising in sex toys and lingerie, with over 140 high street stores in the UK, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. In 2000, Ann Summers acquired the Knickerbox brand, a label with an emphasis on more comfortable and feminine underwear, while the Ann Summers-labelled products tend to be more erotic in style. The chain had an annual turnover of £117.3 million in 2007-2008.
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Camay Camay is the name of a scented hand and body soap, made by Procter & Gamble. It was first introduced in 1926 and marketed as a "white, pure soap for women," as many soaps of the time were colored to mask impurities. Camay's slogan for many years was "Camay: the soap for beautiful women." It was later replaced with "For your most beautiful complexion at every age."
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Missha Missha (Korean: 미샤 ) is a South Korea-based skincare and cosmetics manufacturer, retailer and a franchise business. It is part of Able C&C Co., Ltd.
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Lacasa Lacasa S.A. is a Spanish confectionery company, headquartered in Zaragoza. The group includes Chocolates Lacasa, Comercial Chocolates Lacasa, Bombonera Vallisoletana, Productos Mauri, Chocolates Del Norte, lacasavital, and has marketing offices or factories in places such as Argentina, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, and the United States.
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Natra The Natra Group (), is a Spanish corporation involved in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries. It has five business divisions: Natra Cacao (cocoa), Natraceutical (nutraceuticals), and Torre Oria (wines and champagne-style cavas), with facilities in Quart de Poblet and Torre Oria (Spain), and commercial offices in Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast.
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Michael Kors (brand) Michael Kors Holdings Limited is an American luxury fashion company that was established in 1981 by designer Michael Kors. The company is known for apparel, footwear, watches, handbags and other accessories. As of 2015, Michael Kors Holdings has more than 550 stores and over 1500 in-store boutiques in various countries.
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FramesDirect.com FramesDirect.com is an international online eyewear retailer. The company sells eyewear products such as eyeglasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses through its website. FramesDirect.com sells designer and brand name eyewear products with over 110,000 models displayed on its website. Founded in 1996, FramesDirect.com was one of the earliest online optical retail stores.
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VetUK VetUK Ltd. is an online retailer supplying pet care products including toys, accessories, pet food, over-the-counter pet treatments, and veterinary prescription medicines. The company was founded in 2005, reached their millionth order in 2012, and their two millionth order in 2014.
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Emlin Emlin Cosmetics is a privately held company based in Bensenville, Illinois and has been in business for over fifty years manufacturing customized soap and bath amenity products for the most exclusive hotel chains. Their products are formulated with natural botanicals, rich emollients, and their retail lines have been carried in upscale stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. For over twenty-five years, they were the exclusive provider of bath care products for the Hyatt hotels domestically as well as many properties internationally. Additionally, for over fifteen years, they provided an exclusive amenity line for the Princess Cruises and Medline Industries. Their client list of clubs include numerous American Airlines Admirals clubs, the prestigious Standard Club, and the East Bank Club of Chicago, as well as many country clubs. Most recently, Emlin has been selected by both United Airlines and J.P. Morgan Chase Bank to be the only cosmetic line featured in their respective employee discount programs.
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Fabergé (cosmetics) Fabergé (] ) was a brand of cosmetics manufactured between 1964 and 1984 under the direction of George Barrie. In 1984, McGregor Corporation acquired Fabergé and discontinued many Fabergé products. In 2007, the trademarks, licenses and rights were transferred to Fabergé Limited, in the Cayman Islands, Mark Dunhill became CEO, and it announced an intention to make Fabergé a luxury goods brand.
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Advanced Card Systems Holdings Advanced Card Systems Ltd (ACS) is a Hong Kong-based company founded by Denny Wong in 1995. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Advanced Card Systems Holdings Ltd., a publicly listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. ACS develops smart cards, smart card readers and related products, and distributes them to over one hundred countries. It was ranked by Frost & Sullivan as one of the world's top 3 suppliers and Asia Pacific's top supplier of PC-linked Smart Card Readers. In 2010, 2014, and 2015, it was listed among "Forbes Asia"' s "Best Under a Billion", a prestigious list of 200 top-performing companies with sales between US$5 million and US$1 billion, selected from publicly listed enterprises in Asia Pacific.
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Bloomex Bloomex is a national Canadian floral company offering various floral and gift arrangements throughout Canada, Australia and the United States via its online order system. The company, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, is privately held by its founder and president, Dimitri Lokhonia.
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Melvita Melvita is an international retailer of body, face, and home products based in Lagorce, France. The company was founded in 1983 by biologist and beekeeper, Bernard Chevilliat on a farm in the Ardèche, France.
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Kruidvat Kruidvat is a Dutch retail, pharmacy and drugstore chain specialised in health and beauty products, which also has branches in Belgium. The first Kruidvat was opened in 1975 by Dick Siebrand. In addition to Kruidvat itself, Kruidvat Holding also owned ICI Paris XL and in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Sa Sa International Holdings Sa Sa International Holdings () () is a Hong Kong-based chain store company selling cosmetics, personal care, skin care and baby care products, often at discounted prices.
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Rimmel Rimmel (commonly known as Rimmel London) is a British-manufactured cosmetics brand, now owned by Coty, Inc. The House of Rimmel was founded by Eugène Rimmel as a perfumery in 1834 in Regent Street, London, England.
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Clarins Clarins Group, trading as Clarins, is a French luxury skin care, cosmetics and perfume company, which manufactures worldwide prestige quality products, usually through high-end department store counters and selected pharmacies.
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Brioschi (company) Brioschi is an Italian company founded in 1907 as "Achille Brioschi & C." to "produce and make commerce of chemicals, liquors and similars"; in 1914 the society was quoted on the Milan stock exchange. In the 1970s Brioschi was transformed into an investment company and today’s Brioschi Sviluppo Immobiliare is a real estate contractor, no longer bearing any relationship to the epoch-making "cachet Brioschi" which was once its staple product. Its offshoot, the American company Brioschi Pharmaceuticals, LLC, continued to market the effervescent antacid in the United States, however in 2013 Brioschi Pharmaceuticals LLC filed for bankruptcy and discontinued selling Brioschi products in North America. That was until 2015 when the Canadian company Neobourne Pharma LP. obtained control of the Brioschi Brand and trademark for North America. Neobourne Pharma is now marketing and selling the effervescent antacid in the United States and in Canada.
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Rouge (cosmetics) Rouge ( ; French: "red" ), also called blush or blusher, is a cosmetic typically used by women to redden the cheeks so as to provide a more youthful appearance, and to emphasize the cheekbones.
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Vaseline Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly-based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps, lotions, cleansers, and deodorants.