M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2025-06-23 |
| Target | Dr. Squatch |
| Sector | Consumer Products |
| Buyer(s) | Unilever |
| Sellers(s) | Summit Partners |
| Deal Type | Add-on Acquisition |
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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1894 |
| Sector | Consumer Products |
| Employees | 115,964 |
| Revenue | 60.8B EUR (2024) |
Unilever is a multinational consumer goods company. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning goods and personal care products. Unilever was founded in 1894 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 46 of 46 |
| Sector: Consumer Products M&A | 30 of 30 |
| Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals | 36 of 36 |
| State: California M&A | 10 of 10 |
| Country: United States M&A | 25 of 25 |
| Year: 2025 M&A | 1 of 1 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-18 |
Elida Beauty
Lewisville, Texas, United States Elida Beauty includes brands such as Q-tips, Tigi, Caress, Timotei, Impulse, Monsavon, others (Fissan, Williams, Noxzema, Brylcreem, V05, Lever 2000, Badedas, Matey). In 2022, it became a formalised Global Business Unit within Unilever Personal Care and more brands were added: Alberto Balsam, Brut, Pond's (for North American and Europe only), and St. Ives (for North American and Europe only). The transaction perimeter excludes the Pond's and St. Ives brands sold beyond North America and Europe which will remain in Unilever's Beauty & Wellbeing brand portfolio. Elida Beauty was founded in 2021 and is based in Lewisville, Texas. |
Sell | - |
| Category | Growth Capital Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1984 |
| PE ASSETS | 45.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Summit Partners is a private investment and asset management firm focused on venture, growth, credit, and public equity investing. Sectors of interest include business services, communications technology and services, consumer products, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial products, internet/information services, media/entertainment, semiconductors, electronics, and software. Summit Partners is known for having a proactive business development group for sourcing transactions. Summit will consider both minority or majority investment stakes and is willing to commit as little as $10 million or as much as $500 million in combined debt/junior capital per transaction. The Firm's geographic coverage spans North America and Europe. Summit Partners was formed in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 294 of 298 |
| Sector: Consumer Products M&A | 9 of 9 |
| Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals | 132 of 134 |
| State: California M&A | 63 of 64 |
| Country: United States M&A | 254 of 258 |
| Year: 2025 M&A | 5 of 9 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-16 |
RIS Rx
Newport Beach, California, United States RIS Rx is a healthcare technology company transforming pharmaceutical manufacturers' management of gross-to-net leakage. RIS Rx was founded in 2020 and is based in Newport Beach, California. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-07 |
Quorso
London, United Kingdom Quorso is an intelligent operations software for multi-store retailers that transforms overwhelming store data into personalized, high-impact actions. The company's workflows assist clients in taking effective actions, measuring impact, and automatically surfacing crowdsourced business insights to central teams. Quorso is based in London, United Kingdom. |
Buy | - |
