Inside The Coty/P&G Beauty Mega Deal
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Coty faced off against 44 other interested parties last year to eventually win P&G's beauty business with its $12.5bn merger bid, ushering it to the top tier of the global beauty industry. An April 22 SEC filing offers inside details on Coty and P&G's businesses and how the deal came together.
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