{"id":18837,"date":"2024-04-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xd3kj9bvqee.preview.infomaniak.website\/?p=18837"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T08:21:29","slug":"clariant-completes-acquisition-of-clariant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/clariant-completes-acquisition-of-clariant\/","title":{"rendered":"Clariant completes acquisition of Lucas Meyer Cosmetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clariant, a Swiss specialty chemicals company focused on sustainable development, announces the completion of the acquisition of Quebec-based Lucas Meyer Cosmetics, a leading supplier of high-value ingredients to the cosmetics and personal care industry, from US group IFF for an enterprise value of $810 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\"The acquisition of Lucas Meyer Cosmetics is an excellent example of how we are implementing our targeted growth strategy and supporting our goal of accelerating customer-focused innovation and sustainability<\/em>said Conrad Keijzer, Managing Director of Clariant. <em>The complementary customer portfolio, product portfolio, and regional strongholds, as well as R&amp;D and marketing capabilities make the combination of Clariant and Lucas Meyer Cosmetics a leading solutions provider for high value-added personal care brands.\"<\/em><\/p><div class=\"indus-dans-articles indus-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;display: flex;justify-content: center;\" id=\"indus-3514077941\"><div class=\"indus-adlabel\">Advertising<\/div><div id=\"indus-457782029\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/ad\/24744\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Promotional graphic for Siemens&quot; &quot;The Beauty Thread&quot; videocast series, with French text about faster formulation and better control thanks to enterprise recipe management. Launch in April 2026, with a blue &quot;Discover Episode 1&quot; button. Abstract background.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200.jpg\" alt=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Promotional graphic for Siemens&quot; &quot;The Beauty Thread&quot; videocast series, with French text about faster formulation and better control thanks to enterprise recipe management. Launch in April 2026, with a blue &quot;Discover Episode 1&quot; button. Abstract background.\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/12296_SIEMENS_Videocast_series_BAN2_1200x1200-1068x1068.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\"I see the acquisition of Lucas Meyer Cosmetics as a significant step forward for Care Chemicals. Customers and consumers are increasingly demanding high-value natural ingredients.<\/em>added Christian Vang, President of Clariant's Care Chemicals business unit and of the Americas region. <em>I extend a warm welcome to 190 highly qualified professionals who will become our new colleagues at Clariant. Together we look forward to exciting growth opportunities and plan to increase annual sales to $180 million by 2028, from around $100 million today.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this acquisition, Clariant shifts its focus to high-growth, high-margin, cash-generative specialty chemicals and consumer end-markets, driven by accelerating demand for natural and sustainable products. Clariant's exposure to the market for active and functional cosmetic ingredients is thus increased. <em>via<\/em> its Care Chemicals business unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucas Meyer Cosmetics joined the Care Chemicals business unit on April 2, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clariant will be present at in-Cosmetics Global Paris, April 16-18, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>Visual extract from Clariant's Linkedin profile.<\/sub><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clariant, entreprise suisse de chimie de sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9 ax\u00e9e sur le d\u00e9veloppement durable, annonce la finalisation de l&rsquo;acquisition du qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Lucas Meyer Cosmetics, fournisseur de premier plan d&rsquo;ingr\u00e9dients de haute valeur pour l&rsquo;industrie des cosm\u00e9tiques et des soins personnels, aupr\u00e8s du groupe am\u00e9ricain IFF pour une valeur d&rsquo;entreprise de 810 millions de dollars. \u00ab L&rsquo;acquisition de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":18838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"external_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-18837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ingredients","8":"tag-info-marche"},"acf":{"nc":"eloseva@emg-marcom.com","nc2":"","nc3":"","nc4":"","nc5":"","nom_url":"Site internet","lien_url":"https:\/\/www.clariant.com\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}