L’Occitane Announces Privatisation Offer
The transaction, which includes funding from Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, values the company at $6.4 billion.
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The transaction, which includes funding from Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, values the company at $6.4 billion.
The Lithuania-based group said growth had been spurred by entering new markets including Denmark and Finland and an expansion into luxury fashion.
The Barcelona-based firm set the price guidance at €24.50 per share, according to terms seen by Bloomberg News, giving the company an implied market value of €13.9 billion ($14.9 billion).
Chairman Reinold Geiger’s investment holding company, L’Occitane Groupe SA, is considering an offer for the Hong-Kong listed firm’s shares he does not already own, at HK$33 to HK$34 per share, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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