Coty Inc.

Coty, Inc. is a perfume and cosmetics company based in New York. It goes back to a perfumer François Coty founded in 1904 by the company.

From 1963 to 1992, there was a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. In 1992, the German specialty chemicals company Joh A. Benckiser GmbH, which previously were already part of the rights to the fragrance brand Davidoff, adidas and Jil Sander, the company and incorporated in 1996, the luxury brands in the subsidiary of Coty Inc.. In 1996, the British cosmetics company Rimmel was acquired. By adopting the range perfumes (UCI ) from Unilever in May 2005, Coty was the world's largest manufacturer of fragrances for the mass market. CEO is Michele Scannavini.

Coty Inc. today include adidas, Aspen, Astor, Celine Dion, Cerruti, Chloé, Chopard, Chupa Chups, Kylie Minogue, Davidoff, David and Victoria Beckham, Desperate Housewives, Esprit, Ethan James, Jil Sander, Joop Jette, JOOP!, Jovan, Lancaster, Jennifer Lopez, Vivienne Westwood, Isabella Rossellini Pierre Cardin, Vanilla Fields, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Halle Berry and Guess. As part of a strategic partnership Coty sells jointly with the Spanish Puig Beauty & Fashion Group, the perfume lines of Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera, Prada, Paco Rabanne, and Antonio Banderas in the United States and Canada.

Revenue in fiscal year 2008, around 4 billion U.S. dollars, of which the area fragrances scored 65 % and 20% of the area of ​​cosmetics. The seat of Coty, Inc. is Germany in Mainz.