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"estee-lauder": {
    "names": [
        "Estee Lauder",
        "Estée Lauder",
        "The Estée Lauder Companies",
        "Estée Lauder Companies",
        "The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.",
        "EL"
    ],
    "comment": "Estee Lauder is an American cosmetics company whose founding family has expressed pro-Israel Zionist views [1], donated $5 million to Donald Trump [2], and suggested the U.S. purchase Greenland [3]. The company has underpaid employees [4], engaged in price fixing [5], sourced from factories using child labour [6][7][8], and seen sexual abuse of women on its palm oil farms [9].",
    "sources": {
        "1": "http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-estee-lauder.html",
        "2": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250802155110/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/donor-list-suggests-scale-of-trumps-pay-for-access-operation.html",
        "3": "https://www.businessinsider.com/estee-lauder-heir-pitched-trump-plan-to-buy-greenland-book-2022-9",
        "4": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-500-companies-named-for-not-paying-minimum-wage",
        "5": "https://greekcitytimes.com/2017/10/06/leading-cosmetics-brands-fined-price-fixing-greece/",
        "6": "https://littlethings.com/lifestyle/estee-lauder-and-loreal-linked-to-child-labor-bbc-investigation-finds",
        "7": "https://www.cxtoday.com/voice-of-the-customer/how-will-customers-react-to-the-loreal-estee-lauder-child-labour-scandal/",
        "8": "https://nypost.com/2001/04/09/state-probes-cult-in-child-labor-scandal-acting-on-heels-of-post-report/",
        "9": "https://apnews.com/article/palm-oil-abuse-investigation-cosmetics-2a209d60c42bf0e8fcc6f8ea6daa11c7"
    },
    "sourceNotes": {
        "1": "lauder family has pro-israel zionist views",
        "2": "lauder family donated $5 million to donald trump",
        "3": "suggestion for the US to buy greenland came from the lauder family",
        "4": "underpaid employees",
        "5": "engaged in price fixing",
        "6": "child labour in supply chain",
        "7": "child labour in supply chain",
        "8": "sourced products from a new york factory using child labour",
        "9": "sexual abuse of women in its palm oil farms"
    },
    "tags": [
        "consumer goods",
        "cosmetics"
    ],
    "score": 15,
    "ownedBy": [],
    "logoUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Est%C3%A9e_Lauder_Companies_Logo.svg",
    "siteUrl": "http://elcompanies.com/",
    "updatedAt": "2025-09-28T20:58:45.533Z"
},