The Licensee's Dilemma | How Coty's Distress Reprices Beauty Licensing

Business of LuxuryBusiness of Beauty
Written By Pallavi Sehgal

A levered licensee that rents brand equity it does not own becomes a forced seller of its own contracts. The Gucci exit is the template — and the accessible- prestige fragrance map is quietly consolidating around two buyers. Coty's distress is repricing beauty licensing in real time. The mechanism — a levered licensee forced to sell contracts it does not own — is general; the consolidation it feeds, around L'Oréal and Interparfums, is specific and ongoing. Own the equity, not the rental.

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