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...The industry has also recently taken several large companies public, including dermatology business Galderma and fashion retailer Douglas....
...Douglas and Zeta-Jones live in Santa Barbara. “I can’t face East Coast winters any more.” What about Welsh winters? “Well, it’s rain, isn’t it?”...
...Moreover, while Douglas has performed well, it comes to market after a prolonged period of challenges (detailed at length here in MainFT)....
...As a competitor to French premium beauty retailer Sephora, it sells luxury brands such as Chanel, Dior and Yves Saint Laurent as well as ranges by the likes of Clinique and Mac....
...“Hopefully this pre-Easter batch [of IPOs] goes well and then we have a better set up for May, June.”CVC acquired Douglas from investor Advent International in 2015....
...In late January, KKR-backed BrightSpring Health Services priced its nearly $700mn Nasdaq IPO well below the range, only for the shares to tumble afterwards due to concerns over leverage and margins....
...A steady stream of well-received announcements propelled the engineering group higher, beginning in February when it launched a strategic review....
...On that basis, Douglas would command an enterprise value of €6.4bn. But investors, scenting CVC’s strong desire to get a deal done, might well demand a fair discount before they snap it up....
...Additional reporting by Ray Douglas in London...
...However, the announcement of the Douglas listing, as well as Puig’s plans and UK buyout firm Permira’s exploration of a listing for luxury Italian sports shoe company Golden Goose, has raised hopes that...
...More listings could be en route to public markets soon if those go well, including the Italian luxury sports shoe brand Golden Goose, which is owned by UK buyout firm Permira....
...That goes for the men in the family as well. I was working seven days a week . . . Of course being my own business I was able to involve [my children] in it.”...
...The sector has, they suggested, simply done just too well for its own good....
...The European IPO window is inching open with some difficulty, if the slump of Germany’s Douglas on its stock market return is any indication....
...However, recent beauty IPOs have not been easy, with the market debut of German perfume retailer Douglas flopping in March, with shares still trading below their initial listing price....
...Those strengths are not necessarily reflected in the performance of German beauty retailer Douglas, which is down more than a tenth since its March initial public offering....
...“Now is clearly a significant moment in terms of the resilience of pubs coming back and showing how they can still work very well for consumers up and down the country,” said Lawson Mountstevens, Star Pubs...
...Hagen added that Viking’s cruises were already 35 per cent sold for 2025, well ahead of its 2024 bookings at this point last year....
...German perfume and cosmetics retailer Douglas dropped on its debut last month....
...Renk, Galderma and Douglas, as well as Air Astana in the UK) although with mixed aftermarket performance, positive broader UK ECM activity and performance, and an improving overall equity fund flow picture...
...“Our legal authority is crystal clear,” FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar said in a statement....
...Last week, German beauty retailer Douglas, a business backed by private equity group CVC Capital Partners, announced plans to list in Frankfurt seeking a valuation of about €6bn....
...German beauty retailer Douglas staged an initial public offering in March, though its shares have not fared well since....
...In parliament earlier this week, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross was forced to apologise for referring to Swinney as “not so honest John”....
...Based on a 2018 Belgian film, Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Duelles, and directed by French cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, Mothers’ Instinct is a curious hybrid — like a Douglas Sirk melodrama with an infusion...
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