Consumer Retail

L’Oréal’s $2.53bn Acquisition of Aesop

By Xunliang Huang (University of Melbourne), Albert Ibekwe, Junqi Wang and Sean Millar (University of St Andrews) Photo: the blowup...

Estee Lauder’s $2.8bn Acquisition of Tom Ford

By Friedrich von Storch, Ties Oudmayer and Enrique Pérez-Hernández (IE University), Saihej Ailwadhi, Kian Patel, Samuel Mccrea, Oliver...

Parcom’s $1.2bn Acquisition of Hunkemöller

By Rhys Merideth, Oliver Platts, Kian Patel, Velizar Zlatev, Saihej Ailwadhi and Nial Nolan (University of Bristol), Nancy Huang...

Central Group and Signa Holding’s $5.4bn Acquisition of Selfridges

By Jonathan Fuchs, Bilal Rashid, Billy Dinsdale, Oscar Fontaine (London School of Economics) and Tigran Minasian, Jian Wee Soh, Ross...

Huel's IPO

By Yair Trachtenberg, Ismael Fathy Martínez (Esade), Billy Dinsdale, Oscar Fontaine and Bilal Rashid (LSE) Photo: Joseph Greve (Unsplash)...

Consumer Markets M&A

By: Francois Herman (McGill University), Gurneek Gill (UCL), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Hanson Lu (Unsplash) I. Industry...

Rivian's IPO

By Leo Clement, Olivier Baverez, and Martin Palomar (HEC Paris) Photo: Stephen Leonardi (Unsplash) Summary of IPO EV companies cause...

Carlyle’s approx. $1bn Acquisition of END

By Mikail Boudouda and Hippolyte Meuleau (Grenoble École de Management), Justin Leung and Harson Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and...

Asos’ £265m Acquisition of Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge

By Shivaum Bapu, Daniel Winsor, Mohammed Safayat, Nicole Phung and Pristie Sharma (UCL), Obielumani Amudo, Mayi Hughes, Devin Vasquez,...

Boohoo Group’s £55m Acquisition of Debenhams

By Hannah Farrell, Liam Smith, Liam Ryan and Erika Goodwin (Trinity College, Dublin), and Hirishika Rajasekaran, Vinay Naik, Luc Roberts...

Mondelez acquires healthy snack maker Hu

By Mariona Planella Boix, Ismael Fathy Martínez, Pau Rodríguez Coll (ESADE), Axel Mebarek, Pierre Pinsault (Grenoble École de Management)...