Consumer Retail

Mars’ £534mn Acquisition of Hotel Chocolat

By Argyro Charizona, Mikolaj Borowiak, Angelo Passaro, Rares Ionescu, Muhammad Adnan, Ruben van der Lubbe (Bocconi University) ; Matthew...

General Atlantic increases share in Joe & The Juice to 90% for $641m

By Marvin Stenersen, Angyan Liu, Douglas Dalén (Stockholm School of Economics), Rhys Meredith, Velizar Zlatev, Ben Jackson, Aditi Singh,...

Apollo’s £506 mn Acquisition of The Restaurant Group (TRG)

By Ngoc Nguyen, William Hodgson, Joanne Zhu and Xunliang Huang (University of Melbourne) ; Erica Chan, Jonathan Liu, Hunter Pang and...

Birkenstock’s IPO

By Agastya Jain, Edward Mazin, Lars Birkeland, Luca Cuffe (UCLA) & Samuel Smith, James Chan, Yanxi Liu, Amarthya Chandrappa (University...

Bunge’s $8.2bn Acquisition of Viterra

By Evan Schnell, Coby Lai, Luca Polsinelli, and Leo Polsinelli (Cornell University), Nikitas Kitsantas and Carlotta Nardello (ESADE)...

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...