Harry's initially explored partnering with private equity to acquire public competitor Edgewell
Andy Katz-Mayfield · Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider · Jun 12, 2023 · at 1:05:28
Andy Katz-Mayfield, co-founder of Harry's, discusses the background behind their proposed $1.4 billion merger with Edgewell Personal Care.
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“I actually talked to a couple private equity firms about, because Edgewell was a public company, but a reasonably small public company, about trying to buy them Take them private and fold it into our business. That was actually how it started. And we could never get the math to work to take them private, but it's a small industry.”
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