Wella AG Acquisition & Valuation

Gillette India Ltd is an Indian personal-care products company. The company manufactures and sells products in the grooming and oral care businesses. The company's products are sold through retail operations including mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, and high-frequency stores. Its reportable segments are: Grooming and Oral Care. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Grooming segment, which produces and sells shaving systems and cartridges, blades, toiletries, and related components. The Oral Care segment produces and sells toothbrushes and oral care products. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from India, and the rest from outside India.

Kolmar Korea Co Ltd is a Korea-based company which is mainly engaged in manufacture and sale of cosmetics. It offers various products such as skin care, makeup, hair care, body care and others. The firm is also involved in development and production of pharmaceutical products and quasi-drugs including general medicines, specialized medicines, bioequivalence medicines and others.

Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd is an Indian company engaged in the manufacturing and selling of feminine hygiene care and healthcare products. The portfolio includes brands like Ambi Pur, Head & Shoulders, Olay, Oral-B, Pampers, Pantene, Tide Ariel, Duracell, Gillette, Vicks, and Wella. The business is divided into a feminine hygiene business and a healthcare business. The feminine hygiene business offers sanitary napkins and feminine sanitary hygiene products; its popular brand is Whisper. The healthcare business offers creams, cough drops, and other health products. The company distributes its products through various channels: from retail locations such as mass merchandizers and grocery stores, to drug stores and department stores.

Christian Louboutin is a Paris-headquartered luxury fashion brand renowned for red-lacquered sole footwear, handbags, and leather goods for women and men. Founded in 1991, it operates approximately 150 boutiques worldwide including flagship stores in London, New York, and Tokyo. The company launched its beauty line in 2014 featuring nail color and fragrances distributed through Sephora.

Tiger Brands Ltd is an African producer and distributor of branded food, beverage, home, and personal care products. Its operations are predominantly in Southern Africa, with additional market presence in other parts of the African continent through exports. The company's reportable product segments are Milling and Baking, Grains, Culinary, Snacks, Treats and Beverages, Home, Personal and Baby Care. The company derives the majority of revenue from the product sales of the Culinary segment, which includes canned fruit and vegetables, condiments and ingredients, spreads, baby nutrition and Davita exports.

Softcare Ltd is a hygiene product corporation principally engaged in the development, manufacturing and sales of baby and feminine hygiene products, including baby diapers, baby pants, sanitary pads and wet wipes. Geographically it operates in Africa, Latin America and Central Asia. It offers a variety of baby and feminine hygiene products under brands like Softcare, as well as Veesper, Maya, Cuettie and Clincleer. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the sales of hygiene products in Africa.

Blue Moon has a portfolio of market-leading products in three categories: fabric care, personal hygiene, and home care. Fabric care constitutes around 90% of the group’s revenue. As a pioneer in China’s household care market, Blue Moon holds a leading market share by value in China’s liquid laundry detergent and liquid soap markets as of 2024. Blue Moon is also an early entrant into e-commerce, with the online channel contributing nearly 60% of 2024 sales. Most of Blue Moon’s core products are marketed under its namesake brand.

Cosmax Inc is a Korean-based specialized cosmetics research and development and manufacturing company. COSMAX develops and provides cosmetics to more than 600 cosmetics brands around the world. The key product consists of skincare, makeup, mask sheets, oriental medicine, haircare, functional cosmetics, and scents. Its products are also sold in Europe, North America, and Central and South America. The company also has four corporations in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China, Indonesia, and the United States.

Prestige Consumer Healthcare is one of the largest pure-play over-the-counter healthcare providers. It has a diverse portfolio composed of leading brands in niche consumer health categories. Prestige’s key brands include Clear Eyes (redness relief), Dramamine (motion sickness relief), Monistat (vaginal anti-fungal), and Summer’s Eve (feminine hygiene), and many of its brands enjoy category leadership and recommendations from medical professionals. The firm mainly plays in North America where it generates roughly 85% of its total revenue, and the remaining sales come from Australia, New Zealand, and certain Asian markets.

Alicorp SA is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of edible oils and fats, fideos, harinas, chickens, soap for washing, detergents, salsas, panettone, cereals, instant soft drinks, personal care products, home care products and balanced foods for animal consumption; like that distribution of products manufactured by third parties.

Nutrabolt is a Bryan, Texas-headquartered sports nutrition company producing C4 pre-workout energy drinks, protein powders, and recovery supplements. Founded in 2002, it distributes through GNC, Amazon, and grocery chains, with C4 brand generating over $300 million in annual retail sales.

Coty is a global beauty maker that generates 65% of sales from prestige beauty products (primarily fragrances) and 35% from mass makeup, skin care, and fragrance. For the fragrance business, Coty licenses luxury and high-end brands including Gucci, Burberry, Hugo Boss, Davidoff, and Calvin Klein. In contrast, its consumer cosmetics business focuses on acquired mass brands such as CoverGirl, Max Factor, Rimmel, Sally Hansen, and Bourjois. It also collaborates with social media celebrity Kylie Jenner to manage makeup products bearing her name. By region, Coty generates close to 48% of sales from Europe, 40% from the Americas, and 12% from Asia-Pacific. German investment firm JAB is a controlling shareholder, with a 54% stake.

Hengan International is a leading producer of personal-care products in China. Its business comprises tissue paper products (close to 60% of sales), sanitary napkins (26% of sales), disposable diapers (5% of sales), and others.

Interparfums is a France-based company that is principally engaged in producing and distributing perfume and cosmetic products under license agreements with luxury brands in the apparel, jewelry, and accessories sectors. The brands include Montblanc, Lanvin, Jimmy Choo, Karl Lagerfeld, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Coach, Paul Smith, Repetto, Rochas, and S.T. Dupont. The company outsources the production process to manufacturing partners and distributes the products. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the overseas market, with Europe, America, and Asia the core markets.

Natura Cosmeticos SA is operating mainly in the cosmetics, fragrance, and personal hygiene segments, through the development, manufacture, distribution, and commercialization of its products. The brands managed by the company include the following: Natura, The Body Shop, Avon, and Aesop. In addition to using the retail market, e-commerce, business-to-business (B2B), and franchises as sales channels for the products, the company and its subsidiaries highlight the performance of the direct sales channel carried out by Natura and The Body Shop brands' consultants. Geographically, the group operates in Brazil and also maintains a presence in international markets.

Shanghai Flyco Electrical Appliance Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of shaver and personal care electrical appliances. Its product portfolio comprises of the shaver, hair drier, hair clipper, hair straightener, hair curler, electric iron, garment steamer, lint remover, nose hair trimmer, robot vacuum cleaner and others. The company's products are sold in China and other countries.

Anastasia Beverly Hills is a Beverly Hills-headquartered prestige cosmetics brand renowned for brow products inspired by the Golden Ratio. Founded by Anastasia Soare in 1997 with a flagship salon, it launched its first product line in 2000, pioneering the patented Golden Ratio Eyebrow Shaping Method. Signature items include Brow Wiz, Dipbrow Pomade, and Liquid Lipstick, sold at Sephora, Ulta, Nordstrom, and Dillard's across more than 25 countries including the US, UK, and Australia. The brand expanded into color makeup in 2014 via Instagram and upholds cruelty-free standards.

Glossier is a New York City-headquartered direct-to-consumer beauty brand selling skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance products online and in its SoHo showroom. The lineup includes Boy Brow gel, Cloud Paint blush, and Futuredew serum available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Sweden. Glossier ships from warehouses in New Jersey and maintains pop-up stores in London and Los Angeles.