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Coty Inc

  • Monday, 22 December, 2025
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Coty hires P&G veteran as executive chair in leadership overhaul

    Markus Strobel also becomes interim chief, replacing Sue Nabi who departs after sharp falls in share price

    Covergirl “TruNaked” eyeshadows in various colours displayed on a store shelf.
  • Friday, 12 December, 2025
    US companies
    Coty chair to leave as owner JAB plans leadership shake-up

    CEO Sue Nabi set to depart after beauty group’s chair Peter Harf steps down in major overhaul

    Sue Nabi and Peter Harf pose together, smiling, at the 18th Annual DKMS Gala.
  • Thursday, 2 October, 2025
    US companies
    Lex. How Coty ended up as Big Beauty’s ugly duckling

    Buying tired brands means paying twice — first to acquire them and then to spruce them up

    Premium content
    Covergirl Trunaked eyeshadow palettes in a store display, featuring a range of colourful and neutral shades.
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    Personal & Household Goods
    Coty explores sale of Max Factor and Rimmel as $12.5bn beauty bet backfires

    JAB Holding-owned beauty group bought Procter & Gamble’s cosmetics division in 2015

    Tubes of Rimmel London Match Perfection concealer in various shades displayed on a store shelf.
  • Monday, 25 August, 2025
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Lex. JAB’s big coffee merger leaves everyone else with the dregs

    The Reimanns and their co-investors will extract $12bn in cash by selling their stake to KDP

    Premium content
    A Peet's Coffee cup is in focus in front of shelves displaying boxed tea and coffee products inside a Peet's Coffee & Tea store
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Personal & Household Goods
    Coty pushes ahead with plans for dual Paris listing

    Beauty company’s return to city of its founding seen as a vote of confidence in leadership of Sue Nabi

    Cover Girl make-up from Coty
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Personal & Household Goods
    Lex. Coty: CoverGirl owner looks for French glow-up

    Adding a new address might not be an easy fix

    Premium content
    Coty is considering a dual listing  in Paris
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    European companies
    Coty to explore dual Paris listing

    US-headquartered cosmetics maker considers return to city where it was founded to tap European beauty investors

    A refillable bottle of Chloé Rose Naturelle Intense perfume, one of Coty’s brands
  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    L'Oreal SA
    ‘Infinite appetite for beauty’ drives record sales at L’Oréal

    Pandemic still influencing product choices but cosmetics group expects pressures to ease

  • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Coty chief vows this time it is different

    Investment company JAB has pinned hopes on Sue Y Nabi to fix its long struggling cosmetics maker

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Personal & Household Goods
    Lex. Coty/Estée Lauder: the line on beauty

    Beauty groups report differing fortunes

    Premium content
  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Private equity and hedge funds: an especially wild year in review

    Needless to say, it’s been a mad year in the realm of alternative investments

    Premium content
  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    US companies
    Beauty group Coty plans to sell its factories as it battles pandemic

    Chairman of company behind Max Factor and CoverGirl brands pushes for ‘asset-light’ strategy

    Lockdowns and store closures sent revenue at Coty down 63% to $560.4m in the final quarter of the year to June 30
  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Can dealmaking save us from the zombiepocalypse?

    Private equity groups could extend high-interest loans or purchase stakes in debt-ridden companies

    Premium content
  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    US companies
    Coty picks L’Oréal veteran as new chief executive

    Sue Y Nabi’s appointment marks latest effort to revive lossmaking cosmetics group

    Kim Kardashian West with her husband Kanye West. Coty has invested in her cosmetics company as part of its turnround efforts
  • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
    US companies
    Coty accused of trade secrets theft in Kardashian-Jenner deals

    US manufacturer Seed Beauty alleges that recent investments by beauty group threaten its competitive position

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Keeping up with the Kardashian deal machine

    Coty is looking to the celebrity family to modernise the group’s portfolio of make-up brands

    Premium content
  • Monday, 29 June, 2020
    US companies
    Coty to buy 20% stake in Kim Kardashian West’s beauty line

    Cosmetics maker spends $200m to extend its collaboration with celebrity family

    Kim Kardashian West’s company sells its make-up products mostly through its own website
  • Monday, 1 June, 2020
    US companies
    JAB’s Peter Harf to take over as Coty chief to steer turnround

    Struggling cosmetics group also agrees majority sale of its professional beauty division to KKR

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    Personal & Household Goods
    Lex. Coty/KKR: lockdown haircut

    The beauty and fragrance group will need to continue its makeover

    Premium content
  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    Personal & Household Goods
    KKR to invest $750m in cosmetics maker Coty

    PE firm takes step towards buying majority stake in group’s beauty and haircare unit

    Coty’s biggest brands such as CoverGirl have lost favour with consumers who are flocking to celebrity-driven rivals
  • Saturday, 7 March, 2020
    Beauty
    Bubble bursts for US make-up market

    Sales down as ‘cake face’ falls out of fashion and product fatigue sets in

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Personal & Household Goods
    JAB appoints fresh leadership for cosmetics company Coty

    Luxury veteran Pierre Denis, chief executive of Jimmy Choo, will join make-up group by summer

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
    Luxury goods
    France’s L’Oréal says coronavirus to weigh on sales in Asia

    World’s biggest make-up company posted strong fourth-quarter despite US weakness

    FILE PHOTO: A cosmetic display of French cosmetics group L'Oreal is seen at a duty free shop at the Nice International Airport, in Nice, France, October 10, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD
  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    Social Media
    Coty buys into Kylie Jenner start-up to burnish Instagram appeal

    Deal puts $1.2bn valuation on make-up business founded by youngest Kardashian sister 

    Kylie Jenner arrives for the 2019 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019, in New York. - The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute. The Gala's 2019 theme is Camp: Notes on Fashion" inspired by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on Camp". (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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