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“Calm-Dev” is here to take stress about gifts for your Valentine
MUMBAI: Woohoo, India’s largest e-gifting platform, is celebrating love this month. Keeping in mind the hassle one goes through while selecting a worthy gift for Valentine’s Day, the brand has launched a campaign – ‘Calm Dev – The Love Guru of Gifting’. It also powers the individual to gift their loved ones the freedom of choice.
WooHoo’s ‘Calm Dev – The Love Guru of Gifting’ – is the ultimate love guru that lets people be calm and gift their loved ones in peace. WooHoo gives the option of choosing from a range of quirky gift cards for your Valentine, who can choose to spend it on 100+ brands across categories. Being digitally accessible, it ensures easy transfers and can be used to enjoy products or experiences. Some of the top brands include Amazon, Flipkart, Uber, Big Bazaar, Bookmyshow etc.
MAIN BANNER With ‘Calm Dev’, the platform has also introduced specially designed Valentine- themed E-Gift card. To enhance the experience, the gift card can be personalized with photos, GIFs, voice messages and more, with the ease to gift directly through WhatsApp or e-mail.
The gift card can be sent instantly via app or web. The sender can also include a paragraph or a few lines to add the personal touch to the e-gift cards.
For more details, please visit- https://www.woohoo.in/calm-dev
Woohoo, a part of the Qwikcilver family, is India’s largest gifting platform. The digital gift cards can also be gifted through www.woohoo.in & the Woohoo app. Woohoo is a gift card superstore for personal and occasion-based gifting. With Woohoo app and Woohoo.in, consumers can gift their loved one’s apparels, jewelry, a meal at a restaurant, a movie, spa outing or even a holiday at a resort or a luxury hotel. The recipient of the gift cards can also store the gift cards on woohoo.in or Woohoo app so that there are no concerns about the card getting stolen or lost.
Brands
Estée Lauder to shed 10,000 jobs as new boss bets on digital shift
The cosmetics giant raises its profit outlook but stays silent on a possible merger with Spain’s Puig, as job cuts deepen and a three-year sales slump weighs on the turnaround
NEW YORK: Stéphane de La Faverie is not done cutting. Estée Lauder announced on Friday that it plans to eliminate as many as 3,000 additional jobs, taking its total redundancy programme to as many as 10,000 roles, up from a previous target of 7,000 announced a year ago. The company, which owns La Mer, The Ordinary, Tom Ford, and Aveda, employs roughly 57,000 people worldwide. The mathematics of what is now being contemplated is stark.
The fresh round of cuts is expected to generate a further $200 million in savings, bringing the total annual savings from the programme to as much as $1.2 billion before taxes. That money, De La Faverie has made clear, will be ploughed back into the turnaround.
A CEO in a hurry
De La Faverie, who took the helm in January 2025, inherited a company that had endured three consecutive years of annual sales declines. His response has been to move fast and cut deep. A significant portion of the latest redundancies reflects his push to reduce headcount at US department stores, long a cornerstone of Estée Lauder’s distribution model but now a channel in structural decline. In their place, he is accelerating the shift toward faster-growing online platforms, including Amazon.com and TikTok Shop, a pivot that is reshaping not just where Estée Lauder sells but how it thinks about its customers.
The numbers are moving in the right direction
Despite the pain, there are signs the medicine is working. Estée Lauder raised its profit outlook for the remainder of the fiscal year, guiding for adjusted earnings per share in the range of $2.35 to $2.45, above analyst estimates and a notable step up from the $2.05 to $2.25 range it had guided for in February. Organic net sales growth is expected to come in at 3 per cent, the company said, at the high end of the range it set out in February.
The share price tells a mixed story. After De La Faverie took charge, the stock surged nearly 60 per cent, buoyed by investor optimism that a longtime company insider could finally arrest the decline. But 2026 has been rougher: the shares have fallen 27 per cent this year, weighed down by disappointing February results and the overhang of unresolved merger talks with Spanish beauty giant Puig Brands SA. The company gave no additional details about those discussions on Friday, leaving the market to guess.
Silence on Puig
The proposed tie-up with Puig remains the most consequential unknown hanging over Estée Lauder. A deal with the Barcelona-based group, which owns brands including Carolina Herrera and Rabanne, would reshape the global luxury beauty landscape. But with nothing new to say and a turnaround still very much in progress, De La Faverie is asking investors to trust the process.
Three years of sales declines, 10,000 job cuts, and a merger that may or may not happen. At Estée Lauder, the overhaul has barely started.
