Richard Collings

Reporter, consumer & retail

Richard Collings is a consumer and retail reporter with a focus on mergers and acquisitions in the apparel/fashion and personal-care/beauty sectors. Most recently Richard has been focusing on large consumer group conglomerates, and his scoops often provide investment banking readers with opportunities to invest in firms seeking capital infusion.

Prior to joining The Deal LLC, Richard was a reporter for MergerMarket. While there, Richard covered the consumer sector, including apparel, footwear, retail and personal care, as well as M&A activity and private equity, among other topics. Richard was also an associate editor for Investment Management Weekly, a publication of what was then Thomson Media; there, Richard wrote about money management, following public retirement funds and their money managers.