Progress continues on the merger of COTY and the P&G professional beauty businesses--including Wella, Sebastian and Nioxin—with a post-merger leadership announcement. Current Wella North America leader Salvatore Mauceri has been appointed Regional Senior Vice President, North American Professional Beauty and Global OPI. In this role, he will lead the Wella and OPI groups once the merger is complete.

Executive Vice President Sylvie Moreau says, "Sal has an incredible ability to lead large and complicated businesses to explosive growth while creating high-performing organizations along the way. He has demonstrated significant success in all his…