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About COTY INC.

Coty Inc. is a global beauty group listed in the United States on the NYSE under the ticker COTY. Its business is centered on fragrances, color cosmetics, skin care, and body care. The company’s headquarters are in New York, United States, while its heritage dates back to Paris in 1904. For French, Belgian, and Swiss investors, Coty is best viewed as a hybrid beauty player spanning both prestige and mass-market channels, with exposure to selective retail, consumer distribution, and e-commerce. Coty’s operating model is organized around two main pillars: Prestige Beauty and Consumer Beauty. Prestige Beauty includes luxury and premium fragrances, as well as prestige cosmetics and skin care. Consumer Beauty covers more accessible fragrances, color cosmetics, skin care, and body care products. Across the portfolio, fragrance is the company’s core competency and principal competitive advantage. Coty emphasizes its innovation engine, product development capabilities, and vertically integrated beauty platform as key differentiators versus peers. The company’s portfolio includes a number of well-known brands and licensed names such as Calvin Klein, Chloé, Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Gucci, Hugo Boss, adidas, Rimmel, Sally Hansen, and OPI. This breadth gives Coty exposure across multiple beauty categories, from premium and luxury fragrance to mass cosmetics and nail care. Geographically, the group has a broad international footprint, with sales across developed and emerging markets and with R&D or center-of-excellence capabilities spread across the United States, Europe, Switzerland, Monaco, and Brazil depending on the category. From a competitive standpoint, Coty is among the world’s larger beauty companies, with especially strong scale in fragrances. Management has been focusing on improving execution, supporting innovation, expanding e-commerce and travel retail, and strengthening the balance sheet. Recent company updates show an increasingly clear strategic tilt toward fragrance and scenting, while certain Consumer Beauty assets, particularly color cosmetics and Brazil, are under strategic review. In 2025 and 2026, Coty reported gross-margin improvement, continued debt reduction, and a multi-pronged performance plan. The company also highlighted several product launches, including new fragrance collections and extensions into mists and related scenting adjacencies. For investors, Coty remains a transformation story within global beauty: a company with iconic brands and strong fragrance leadership, but still working through category mix, execution, and portfolio optimization.