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...Luxury Australian marque Aesop was sold to L’Oréal for $2.5bn in April and last month Natura agreed to sell The Body Shop to private equity firm Aurelius for a fraction of the price it paid in 2017, after...
...Having started life as a joint venture between Nestlé and L’Oréal, Galderma was acquired by a consortium led by Swedish private equity group EQT in a $10bn deal in 2019....
...L Catterton, which is backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH, is expected to list the business next week....
...The deal raised almost $1.5bn for the company and L Catterton, its private equity owner. About a third of the proceeds will be used by the company to repay debt, with the rest going to L Catterton....
...Birkenstock’s public debut will raise about $1.5bn, with a third of the proceeds going to the company to repay debt and the rest going to private equity owner L Catterton....
...L Catterton declined to comment....
...Its owner L Catterton is aiming to list the business the week beginning October 9, people familiar with the matter previously said.An offering for Birkenstock would come on the heels of several high-profile...
...Billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, the former chief executive of Glencore, is poised to acquire a controlling stake in elite bicycle maker Pinarello as he expands his stable of cycling interests....
...A valuation topping $9bn would mark an impressive outcome for L Catterton, which is backed by the French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...The declines are a setback for Birkenstock and its private equity owner L Catterton, the firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH....
...Samwer is poised to receive a €260mn annual dividend after an annual general meeting on Thursday, DD’s Ivan Levingston revealed....
...buy a large stake in FGS Global, which will value the WPP-backed communications group at about $1.4bn, reflects private capital’s tightening grip on the once independent market, DD’s Arash Massoudi and Ivan...
...One man carved his name and his girlfriend’s — “Ivan + Hayley 23” — into the Roman Colosseum’s 2,000-year-old brick wall....
...Over a spicy ventricina and ‘nduja pizza at L’Elementare, a pizzeria and tap room, we exchanged small talk and I, slurring my words — having just finished a bottle of Super at nearby pub Baccanale Trastevere...
...Branding it Chin Chin and commissioning Noble Rot magazine illustrator Jose Mendez to create the label, we’ve lost count of the times it’s been erroneously name-checked as a natural wine because of its vibrant...
...And although Morozov called them the “pearls of his painting gallery”, the stylised panorama of flimsy, raspberry-skinned nudes ensures that the decorative cycle, “L’Histoire de Psyche” — commissioned from...
...In 2018, Ivan Gazidis, an acquaintance of Gordon Singer, was parachuted in from Arsenal as chief executive with a mission to repair the club’s finances and build new revenue streams....
...The work combines humour, technical skill and mastery of materials to achieve an uncanny trompe l’oeil that deceives the eye into believing just for an instant that one is looking at an ice cream....
...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...I think the extent to which, really, Putin has become the state, it's like maybe - I might be getting the French king wrong, but I think it's Louis XIV who said, l'etat c'est moi - I am the state....
...His sons didn’t want to take over his work, so, in 2018, he sold to enthusiast Ivan Massonnat; the pair continue to work together, with Pithon and Muscadet’s Guy Bossard in advisory roles....
...Kirkland & Ellis has added to its Cfius and national security practice following the hiring of Ivan Schlager from Skadden Arps. It has hired Daniel Gerkin and Nathan Mitchell as partners....
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