March 24 (Reuters) - Shares of Puig surged around 16% on Tuesday, on track for their best trading day on record, after the Spanish beauty group and Estee Lauder said on Monday they were in talks over a potential merger.
The deal would create a $40 billion luxury beauty group and bring some of the world's biggest beauty and fragrance brands such as Tom Ford, Carolina Herrera, Rabanne and Clinique under the same roof.
Estee Lauder's New York-listed shares closed 7.7% lower on Monday.
(Reporting by Gemma Guasch in Gdansk, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the 1st world cosmetics groups. Products are sold under brands (Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, TOM FORD, Smashbox, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, The Ordinary and NIOD) and under brands of licenses (AERIN, BALMAIN and Dr. Andrew Weil). Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- skin care products (48.6%);
- make-up products (29.4%);
- perfumes (17.4%);
- hair care products (3.9%);
- other (0.7%).
At the end of June 2025, products are marketed through about 1,600 outlets worldwide, distributed between large stores, perfume shops, pharmacies, beauty institutes and exclusive shops, and via Internet.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (30.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (37.5%) and Asia/Pacific (31.7%).
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