{"id":69818,"date":"2026-03-24T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/estee-lauder-in-talks-on-merger-with-jean-paul-gaultier-owner-puig\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:55:09","slug":"estee-lauder-in-talks-on-merger-with-jean-paul-gaultier-owner-puig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/estee-lauder-in-talks-on-merger-with-jean-paul-gaultier-owner-puig\/","title":{"rendered":"Est\u00e9e Lauder in talks on merger with Jean Paul Gaultier owner Puig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combination of US and Spanish companies would create $40bn fashion and beauty group<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/mar\/24\/brent-crude-oil-100-dollars-a-barrel-middle-east-iran-stock-markets-economic-growth-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US cosmetics company Est\u00e9e Lauder is in talks over a potential merger with the Spanish group Puig, the owner of brands including Jean Paul Gaultier and Rabanne, to create a $40bn fashion and beauty giant.<\/p>\n<p>Est\u00e9e Lauder is one of the world\u2019s biggest manufacturers of skin care, makeup and fragrances with a portfolio that includes Clinique, Bobbi Brown and Tom Ford Beauty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/24\/estee-lauder-jean-paul-gaultier-puig-merger-talks-us-spain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combination of US and Spanish companies would create $40bn fashion and beauty group Business live \u2013 latest updates The US cosmetics company Est\u00e9e Lauder is in talks over a potential merger with the Spanish group Puig, the owner of brands including Jean Paul Gaultier and Rabanne, to create a $40bn fashion and beauty giant. Est\u00e9e &#8230; <a title=\"Est\u00e9e Lauder in talks on merger with Jean Paul Gaultier owner Puig\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/estee-lauder-in-talks-on-merger-with-jean-paul-gaultier-owner-puig\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Est\u00e9e Lauder in talks on merger with Jean Paul Gaultier owner Puig\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}