{"id":73880,"date":"2026-05-22T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/estee-lauder-ends-merger-talks-with-gaultier-owner-puig\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:02:49","slug":"estee-lauder-ends-merger-talks-with-gaultier-owner-puig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/estee-lauder-ends-merger-talks-with-gaultier-owner-puig\/","title":{"rendered":"Est\u00e9e Lauder ends merger talks with Gaultier owner Puig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key sticking point to building beauty powerhouse was level compensation demanded by Charlotte Tilbury<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/22\/uk-borrowing-higher-retail-sales-drivers-fuel-business-live-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US cosmetics company Est\u00e9e Lauder has ended talks with its Spanish rival Puig about a merger that would have created a fashion and beauty group worth almost $40bn (\u00a330bn).<\/p>\n<p>Est\u00e9e Lauder, one of the world\u2019s biggest manufacturers of skincare, makeup and fragrances, owns brands including Clinique, Bobbi Brown and Tom Ford Beauty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/22\/estee-lauder-ends-merger-talks-gaultier-owner-puig\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key sticking point to building beauty powerhouse was level compensation demanded by Charlotte Tilbury Business live \u2013 latest updates The US cosmetics company Est\u00e9e Lauder has ended talks with its Spanish rival Puig about a merger that would have created a fashion and beauty group worth almost $40bn (\u00a330bn). Est\u00e9e Lauder, one of the world\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Est\u00e9e Lauder ends merger talks with Gaultier owner Puig\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/estee-lauder-ends-merger-talks-with-gaultier-owner-puig\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Est\u00e9e Lauder ends merger talks with 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-73880","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\/73880","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=73880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}