Filorga acquired by Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive acquired Filorga, a French personal care skincare brand.
Transaction summary
- Target
- Filorga
- Acquirer
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Seller
- -
- Announced
- 2019-07-11
- Geography
- France
- Tags
- anti aging skincareBeauty & personal careCosmeticsCPGPersonal care skincarepremium beautyprestige skincareSkin Care
- Type
- Acquisition
- Deal type
- Control
- Stake acquired
- -
- First added
- 2026-06-19
- Latest update
- 2026-10-21
Value and multiples
100% enterprise value
EUR 1.5B
100% enterprise value | EUR
Basis: Public source
Reported price is assumed to be 100% EV unless stated otherwise. Partial-stake estimates are qualified in the basis notes.
Approx. $1.7B USD using FX date 2019-07-11 at 1.1285 EUR/USD.
EV / revenue
8.3x
Period not stated
Basis: Source not stated
EV / EBITDA
-
EBITDA basis not stated
Basis: Source not stated
Amounts paid and other reported values
Original reported amounts and bases; a stake payment is distinct from the estimated whole-company valuation.
Equity Purchase Price: EUR 1.5B
Colgate-Palmolive official 11 July 2019 acquisition announcement.
Basis
- Colgate-Palmolive’s 11 July 2019 announcement gives an equity purchase price of EUR 1,495.5m (about USD 1,690m). The French competition authority reports 2018 turnover of EUR 180m. EUR 1,495.5m / EUR 180m gives an estimated 8.3x revenue, using the equity price in place of EV. No public source gives EBITDA, so no EBITDA multiple is shown; the other figures listed below come from FundComb’s comps spreadsheet and are not confirmed by a public source.
Other reviewed estimates
Earlier estimates and their sources.
Source summary
Colgate to buy skin care business of France's Filorga for $1.69 billion - Reuters
ConfirmedColgate Announces Agreement to Acquire Laboratoires Filorga Cosmétiques Skin Care Business
ConfirmedColgate-Palmolive announced a EUR 1,495.5m equity purchase price, approximately USD 1,690m.
Open sourceThe Autorité de la concurrence clears the acquisition of Laboratoires Filorga Cosmétiques by Colgate Palmolive
ConfirmedThe French competition authority states the deal was announced on 11 July 2019 and Filorga generated EUR 180m turnover in 2018.
Open sourceThe Autorité de la concurrence clears the acquisition of Laboratoires Filorga Cosmétiques by Colgate Palmolive - autoritedelaconcurrence.fr
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