Spanish magnificence and perfume group Puig Manufacturers SA and its founding household raised €2.6 billion ($2.8 billion), pricing shares on the high finish of the marketed vary in Europe’s largest itemizing to date this 12 months.
The Barcelona-based agency and its shareholders bought 106.5 million shares at €24.50 apiece, in accordance with an announcement confirming an earlier report by Bloomberg Information. The worth compares with a earlier vary of €22 to €24.50.
On the IPO value, Puig has a market worth of €13.9 billion, in accordance with the assertion. The itemizing drew orders for a number of occasions the variety of shares obtainable.
The itemizing of Puig, an organization based over a century in the past, is contributing to a broad resurgence of European preliminary public choices this 12 months, following Galderma Group AG’s $2.3 billion providing in Switzerland and CVC Capital Companions Plc’s $2.15 billion IPO. Collectively, corporations within the area have raised about $8.6 billion to date this 12 months, greater than twice as a lot as in the identical interval in 2023, in accordance with knowledge compiled by Bloomberg.
Puig, which is ran by the third technology of the founding household with Marc Puig Guasch as chief govt officer, is primarily centered on promoting fragrances. Its portfolio contains manufacturers like Rabanne, Carolina Herrera and Jean Paul Gaultier, and more moderen acquisitions resembling area of interest fragrance homes Byredo or l’Artisan Parfumeur. In recent times Puig has additionally strengthened its make-up and skincare choices with the acquisition of Charlotte Tilbury.
The corporate intends to make use of the proceeds from the share sale to refinance current transactions and assist the expansion of its portfolio.
After the itemizing, the Puig household will maintain greater than 90 % of voting rights by way of their Class A shares, which have 5 votes every in comparison with one for the Class B inventory, the prospectus reveals.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are main the IPO, and Financial institution of America Corp., BNP Paribas SA, CaixaBank SA and Banco Santander SA as joint bookrunners. The inventory is anticipated to start buying and selling Might 3 on the Madrid Inventory Trade below the image PUIG.
By Clara Hernanz Lizarraga
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The Barcelona-based agency set the value steering at €24.50 per share, in accordance with phrases seen by Bloomberg Information, giving the corporate an implied market worth of €13.9 billion ($14.9 billion).
