Beauty Care M&A Falls Back to Reality
Beauty Care M&A came back down to earth in Q1’22 with 29 transactions, following the unprecedented and unsustainable volume levels seen in Q4’21. Despite the drop from Q4’21, M&A activity… Read more »
Beauty Care M&A came back down to earth in Q1’22 with 29 transactions, following the unprecedented and unsustainable volume levels seen in Q4’21. Despite the drop from Q4’21, M&A activity… Read more »
The first quarter of 2023 was noisy. Despite the epic failure of Silicon Valley Bank – for reasons totally outside the health of the software ecosystem – software valuations increased,… Read more »
After a blockbuster 2021 and strong 2022, the Q4 2022 slowdown of M&A activity in the consumer products sector has carried over into the first quarter of 2023. While overall… Read more »
Historically, annual M&A activity peaks at year-end as buyers and sellers rush to close before the end of the tax year. However, in 2022, the market took an extended intermission… Read more »
2022 was a turbulent year. The year ended with public equity markets leveling off after falling from 2021 highs, interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve nearing an end, inflation… Read more »
While technology stocks experienced significant declines from the height of November 2021 through 2022, M&A transaction volume remained fairly stable in the commerce enablement category, declining only 6.5% from prior… Read more »
M&A volume within the Beauty Care industry remained depressed in Q3’22, down 15% from Q3’21. As anticipated, continued softness was driven primarily by increasing recession fears by both buyers and… Read more »
As a result of increasing recession fears and continued stock market volatility, the Beauty Care industry experienced a significant drop in M&A volume in Q2’22, down 20% from Q2’21 and… Read more »
It has been a disconcerting journey through the first three quarters of 2022. We ended 2021 having survived another year of the pandemic, with equity markets at or near all-time… Read more »