The daily business briefing: January 16, 2018

CVS bans manipulated photos in marketing for its makeup, Airbus says it might have to stop making its massive A380 jets, and more

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1. CVS bans use of manipulated photos in marketing of its makeup brand

CVS Health said Monday that it would ban the use of manipulated photos in the marketing of its store-brand makeup. The nation's largest pharmacy chain also said it would require other beauty brands that sell products in its stores to commit to phasing out retouched or otherwise manipulated images by 2020. CVS Pharmacy President Helena Foulkes said the decision reflected the company's recognition that "unrealistic body images" are "a significant driver of health issues," especially among women, who account for 80 percent of CVS customers. "To try to hold ourselves up to be like those women is impossible because even those women don’t look like how they appear in those photographs," Foulkes said. The change could have a huge impact, as CVS is one of the largest sellers of beauty products in the U.S.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.