Re: Coty Buyout of Philosophy

riley1 · ‎03-10-2010

@Carolina925 Most times when a large company purchases a small company (whether beauty, food, etc), they have run the numbers, know the cost of ingredients and usually the fan base.

With that being said, the large company wants to make the same amount of money plus but starts switching out and changing ingredients to less expensive ingredients.

Even packaging might be changed to a less expensive vessel or shipping package.

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

@rockygems123 wrote:
@Carolina925& @Desertdi

Your posts made me laugh and glad to hear we have company. I misspoke on the day of the week on a post and fellow poster made fun of it with a side eye cat gif and asked what planet I was on. Your posts are more fun lol, easy to mix up the days especially this last year.

@rockygems123 @rockygems123 @Carolina925 Yeah. I think it's kinda "small" to publicly "SCOLD" someone for an innocent error.

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katwoman219 · ‎09-14-2011

@Carolina925 wrote:
This has probably been answered many times on the forums but I can't easily find it. Wondering why a company buys out a very successful company then changes formulas from what was working. I'm speaking directly to Coty and Philosophy but I imagine it happens frequently. Seems to me that if a product is so successful that a company would want to buy the other company, they'd do everything to keep the original products. I don't pretend to know anything about retail business and am asking a genuine question. I miss the old Philosophy products and the wonderful scents they used to have. If I had a product I worked hard to produce and put my all into, no matter how much a company would pay me, it would bother me that the products are now not the same calibre.

ITA. Their products from skincare to fragrance have changed and in my opinion not for the better. Rarely buy anything from Philosophy anymore, Sad!

colliemom4 · ‎09-08-2010

Not long ago I read that aren't doing so well financially.

rockygems123 · ‎06-04-2012

@Desertdi wrote:
@rockygems123 wrote:
@Carolina925& @Desertdi

Your posts made me laugh and glad to hear we have company. I misspoke on the day of the week on a post and fellow poster made fun of it with a side eye cat gif and asked what planet I was on. Your posts are more fun lol, easy to mix up the days especially this last year.
@rockygems123 @rockygems123 @Carolina925 Yeah. I think it's kinda "small" to publicly "SCOLD" someone for an innocent error.

@Desertdi

Thanks I agree.

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

Companies just can't seem to leave well enough alone. I loved the orginal formula of ment a dent toothpaste, my teeeth were so white, people asked me what I used. Then I couldn't find it for quite a while. When it did get put back on the shelf, it was a different formula and my didn't whiten my teeth near as much.