Private Equity Firms Circling Nestle’s Skin Health Business: Sources

Private Equity Firms Circling Nestle’s Skin Health Business: Sources
Nestle chocolate products for sale at a Kroger supermarket in Georgia on May 27, 2003. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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FRANKFURT/LONDON—Private equity firms Cinven and Advent have teamed up to bid in an auction that could value Nestle’s skin health business at about 7 billion Swiss francs ($7 billion), three sources familiar with the matter said.

Private equity companies Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, CVC, EQT, and Partners Group are also expected to bid and might look for partners, according to the sources, who declined to be identified as the process is private.