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Kim Kardashian West makes 200 million dollars by selling stake in beauty brand

Cover girl owner Coty will get a 20% stake in KKW Beauty.
Cover girl owner Coty will get a 20% stake in KKW Beauty. Cover girl owner Coty will get a 20% stake in KKW Beauty.

Kim Kardashian West is selling a stake in her beauty brand for 200 million US dollars, in a deal that values the TV reality star’s three-year-old business at one billion US dollars.

The buyer is Covergirl owner Coty Inc, which will get a 20% stake in KKW Beauty.

Coty seems to be enamoured with the Kardashians.

Last year, it bought a 51% stake in the make-up line started by Kardashian West’s younger sister, Kylie Jenner.

“Kim is a true modern day global icon,” said Coty chief executive Peter Harf, which is similar to what he said about Jenner in November.

Kardashian West, who stars on the long-running reality TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, founded KKW Beauty in 2017 and tapped into her hundreds of millions of social media followers to sell lip gloss, body foundation and perfume.

Kim Kardashian West and Kylie Jenner attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Ian West/AP)
Kim Kardashian West and Kylie Jenner attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Ian West/AP) Kim Kardashian West and Kylie Jenner attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Ian West/AP)

The 39-year-old will still promote KKW Beauty online and will help create new products.

Coty plans to expand the brand into more countries around the world and possibly into other categories, like skin creams and shampoos.

It also hopes that the buzzy brand can help boost sales and connect with younger shoppers who spend a lot of time on social media.

Coty’s brands, including Max Factor makeup and Sally Hansen nail polish, cannot compete with KKW Beauty’s reach.

Max Factor, for example, has 585,000 Instagram followers.

KKW Beauty has 4.4 million.

Coty, which expects the deal to close next year, did not reveal any sales data for KKW Beauty.

Shares of New York-based Coty rose 10% to 4.06 US dollars on Monday morning.

It has been a busy summer for Kardashian West’s family.

On Friday, husband Kanye West announced a deal to design fashions for the Gap under his Yeezy brand.