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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001024305-21-000051
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210709

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			COTY INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001024305
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PERFUMES, COSMETICS & OTHER TOILET PREPARATIONS [2844]
		IRS NUMBER:				133823358
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		350 FIFTH AVENUE
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10118
		BUSINESS PHONE:		212-389-7300

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		350 FIFTH AVENUE
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10118

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	COTY INC /
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19961004
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="ic2c24421d6f14cba81809e8e3eb17504_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">FOIA CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY COTY INC. UNDER RULE 83</font></div></div><div style="padding-left:108pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%"> </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:98.900%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-bottom:1pt solid #000;border-left:1pt solid #000;border-right:1pt solid #000;border-top:1pt solid #000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THIS LETTER AS FILED VIA EDGAR HAVE BEEN OMITTED AND SUBMITTED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED FOR THE OMITTED PORTIONS PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. &#167; 200.83, WHICH HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH THE FOLLOWING PLACEHOLDER &#8220;***&#8221; IN THE LETTER FILED VIA EDGAR.</font></td></tr></table></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%;text-decoration:underline">The entity requesting confidential treatment is&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Coty Inc.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">350 Fifth Avenue</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">New York, New York 10118</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Attn&#58; Laurent Mercier</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">July 9, 2021</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline">By EDGAR, &#8220;CORRESP&#8221; Designation, and Secure Portal Submission</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Division of Corporation Finance</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Office of Life Sciences</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">100 F Street, N.E.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Washington, D.C.  20549-7010</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Attn&#58;    Terence O&#8217;Brien</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">            Tracey McKoy</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">            Jeanne Baker</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">Re&#58;   Coty Inc.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2020</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%">File No&#58; 1-35964</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Ladies and Gentlemen&#58;</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">On behalf of Coty Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221; or &#8220;we&#8221;), this letter responds to your letter, dated April 23, 2021, (&#8220;Comment Letter&#8221;) regarding the above-referenced Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700;line-height:115%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">2020, filed on August 27, 2020.  As previously discussed with the staff (the &#8220;Staff&#8221;) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;), in lieu of responding to each of the comments in the Comment Letter, the Company is instead providing certain requested information regarding its current reportable segments and prospective reportable segments. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">The Company respectfully requests confidential treatment for the redacted information in this letter pursuant to Rule 83 promulgated by the Commission, 17 CFR </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#167;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">200.83. This letter omits confidential information included in an unredacted version of this letter, which was submitted to the Staff of the Commission. Asterisks (***) denote the omission of the confidential information from the text of this version of such letter. The Company requests that the redacted information be treated as confidential for reasons of business confidentiality, and that the </font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">FOIA CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY COTY INC. UNDER RULE 83</font></div></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Commission provide timely notice to Kristin Blazewicz, Chief Legal Officer of Coty Inc., 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10118 before it permits disclosure of such information.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;padding-left:13.8pt">As disclosed in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2021, as our new CEO finalizes her organization structure and how she will assess performance, we have concurrently evaluated the potential impact to our segment reporting under Topic 280 of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. Based on this evaluation we have determined that it is appropriate to realign our reportable segments from the current regional structure to a principally product category-based structure -- comprised of a prestige business segment and a consumer beauty business segment.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;padding-left:13.8pt">We have informed our Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the outcome of management&#8217;s evaluation and proposed change to the reportable segments, and they have concurred with management&#8217;s recommendations.  </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;padding-left:13.8pt">We are in the process of making corresponding changes, as needed, to our management structure and operating responsibilities as well as to our information systems to enable appropriate internal and external financial reporting reflecting such newly identified segments by the first quarter of our fiscal year 2022.  </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;padding-left:13.8pt">***</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">If you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to call me at +31202999088.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:180pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Very truly yours,</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:144pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">&#47;s&#47; Laurent Mercier</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:180pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">___________________________</font></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:180pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Laurent Mercier</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div style="padding-left:396pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2</font></div></div></div></body></html>
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