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The Next Wave for Beauty? Cosmetics Companies Dive into Mergers and Acquisitions

Interest for mergers and acquisitions among large beauty companies steadily grew throughout 2017 and is set to continue thriving in 2018. According to beauty M&A advisors, Intrepid Investment Bankers, the M&A market continued its active pace with over 100 transactions in 2016 and 2017. Not only have we seen an increase in the number of beauty...

Business

C&A fashion chain eyes sale to Chinese investors: report

The billionaire family that owns Dutch clothing retailer C&A is on the brink of selling the chain to Chinese investors, a German media report said Sunday. The deal is close to being finalised, Der Spiegel weekly said, citing "insider sources". C&A, founded in the Netherlands in 1841 by the German-Dutch Brenninkmeijer family, has over 1,500...

Fashion

Leonard Green: setting ground for retail M&A

Retail M&A interest resurfaced in 2010, with Leonard Green, an equity firm based in LA, as the main character so far: its buyout offers for J.Crew and Jo-Ann Stores started to draft the coming operations within the sector. It appears to be that the private-equity buyouts of J.Crew, Gymboree and, most recently, Jo-Ann Stores, have triggered...