Oriflame Bonds Fall Further Into Distress as Profit Slides 84%

Oriflame Holding AG’s debt is sliding additional into distressed territory after the cosmetics vendor reported a drop in income and revenue, with some bondholders consulting funding financial institution Moelis & Co. to evaluate their choices.

Its $550 million notes due in 2026 misplaced almost 3 cents on the greenback to 26 cents by 3 PM London time, in line with pricing compiled by Bloomberg. Oriflame, which sells magnificence and private care merchandise on to customers on-line, on Wednesday posted adjusted EBITDA of €6.2 million ($6.7 million) for the fourth quarter, an 84 p.c drop from the earlier 12 months.

The weaker efficiency comes as Oriflame has been combating rising inflation and the influence of the battle in Ukraine, because of the firm’s publicity to the Russian market. It additionally needed to endure an organisational restructuring involving 20 p.c of the workforce.

As a consequence, Oriflame’s notes have been dropping floor and are actually buying and selling at a few quarter of their face worth. Funds with a deal with particular conditions have been scooping up the securities as their worth dropped. A few of them, together with Blantyre Capital Ltd., have engaged with funding financial institution Moelis to evaluate their choices, mentioned folks accustomed to the matter, who spoke to Bloomberg on the situation of anonymity.

Oriflame didn’t reply to requests for remark, whereas representatives for Moelis and Blantyre declined to remark.

Oriflame will stay targeted in 2024 on “the operational transformation and repositioning of the enterprise” earlier than starting to deal with its bond maturities, its administration mentioned in a presentation to traders on Wednesday. Oriflame had €80.6 million of money on its stability sheet as of December 2023.

By Irene García Pérez and Giulia Morpurgo

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