Personal care

Avon in talks with private equity firms for stake sale

11 Sep 2015

Maharashtra FDA cracks down on ‘steroid-laden’ fairness creams

09 Sep 2015

Berry Plastics to buy baby diaper maker Avintiv from Blackstone Group for $2.45 bn

01 Aug 2015

India thwarts Colgate-Palmolive's bid to patent nutmeg mouthwash

17 Jul 2015

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

UK teens invent STD detecting colour-changing condom

26 Jun 2015

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

CVC Capital to buy German perfume and cosmetics retailer Douglas for reported €3 bn

02 Jun 2015

UK competition regulator stumps Reckitt Benkiser's acquisition of J&J's brand K-Y

22 May 2015

FBI looking into suspicious bid for Avon

18 May 2015

Hindustan Unilever Q4 net up nearly 17% at Rs1,018 cr

08 May 2015

Dabur to expand its baby care portfolio; reports 20% jump in Q4 net

06 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

French court convicts Nina Ricci perfume heiress of tax fraud

14 Apr 2015

Advent puts German perfume and cosmetics retailer Douglas Holding for sale

02 Apr 2015

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

Emami buys controlling stake in Australian firm Fravin

23 Jan 2015

Godrej arm buys South African Frika’s hair extension business

07 Jan 2015

Avon to pay $135 mn to US regulators to settle China bribing probe

18 Dec 2014

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

KIK Custom Products seeks to sell itself for more than $1.5 bn

14 Nov 2014

Estee Lauder to buy French luxury perfume brand Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle

08 Nov 2014

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