Personal care
Procter & Gamble to sell its beauty brands to Coty for $12.5 bn
09 Jul 2015
The transaction for 43 brands includes P&G’s global salon professional hair care and colour, retail hair colour, cosmetics and fine fragrance businesses, along with select hair styling brands
Coty nears deal to buy three P&G brands for about $12 billion
16 Jun 2015
Coty Inc, the $4.6-billion US cosmetics group, has won an auction to acquire Wella hair care and Max Factor and CoverGirl makeup brands from Procter & Gamble for around $12 billion
FBI looking into suspicious bid for Avon
18 May 2015
Avon explores sale of North America business
15 Apr 2015
Avon Products Inc is exploring options, including potentially selling itself entirely or its struggling North American business, as the 129-year-old beauty products company's fortunes have sharply diminished in recent years
P&G on course in pruning low-value brands
23 Feb 2015
After the brand consolidation, P&G would focus on nearly 65 best performing brands, and aim to improve their market share
P&G explores sale of Wella hair care business worth around $7 bn
29 Nov 2014
The potential sale comes two weeks after P&G agreed to sell its Duracell battery unit to Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway in a stock swap deal worth $3 billion
India bans import of animal-tested cosmetics
15 Oct 2014
P&G to cut 100 underperforming brands, focus on key products
04 Aug 2014
While Procter & Gamble did not say which of the estimated 100 brands would either be discontinued or sold off, these brands taken together had aggregate sales declines of 3 per cent a year over the last three years
Nivea to set up first Indian plant at Sanand in Gujarat
23 Jun 2014
Apart from the manufacturing facility, Nivea India will also set up a research & development centre at the Sanand-based factory
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