P&G 始める，決める for £4.4bn Wella 引き継ぎ／買収

By Alan Hall for MailOnline
Updated: 00:00 BST, 18 March 2003

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THE 隠しだてする controlling family of German haircare company Wella has 洞穴d in to a $6.9bn (£4.4bn) 企て，努力，提案 from US 消費者 製品s 巨大（な） Procter & 賭事.

P&G will buy the Stroher family's 大多数 火刑／賭ける and 開始する，打ち上げる an of fer for other shareholdings. It will also take on the 122-year-old company's e1.1bn (£745m) of 負債.

Wella's 独立した・無所属 管理／経営 答える／応じるd coolly, 説 that the company would be better off alone. 'From a 商売／仕事 視野, the 発表するd 処理／取引 is not a necessary step,' it said, 追加するing, however, that it 尊敬（する）・点d the family owners' 決定／判定勝ち（する） to sell.

The last remaining members of the family, Sylvia and Ulrich Stroher, are thought to have been 納得させるd to sell after a board 会合 on Friday. P&G has been under 圧力 to move after 競争相手 German 会社／堅い Henkel bought a 7% 火刑／賭ける in Wella last week.

With 年次の 歳入s of more than $3bn, 17,210 従業員s and fragrance brands such as Alfred Dunhill and Rochas, the company has a formidable 商売／仕事 評判. It has 連合させるd family 支配（する）／統制する with outside 管理／経営, 含むing 長，指導者 財政上の officer ツバメ Tresser.

With the family 供給するing 連続, the group has 追求するd a 政策 of おもに 有機の growth, interspersed with judicious 取得／買収s. Its 戦略 of 焦点（を合わせる）ing on a 比較して small number of brands has created the world's third-largest haircare 製品s group after L'Oreal and P&G and the sixth-largest in perfumes.

A string of マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測s over the past few days had fuelled rumours of a 引き継ぎ／買収 and 誘発する／引き起こすd strong 貿易（する）ing 容積／容量s in Wella 在庫／株 but some said that the secrecy surrounding the 会社／堅い had made the 状況／情勢 hard to call. Wella said that it reserved the 権利 to advise 少数，小数派 株主s on whether to 受託する the 申し込む／申し出. However, banking sources said its chances of derailing the 取引，協定 looked わずかな／ほっそりした.