Corporate and M&A – Page 8
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ArticleThe Italian retailers Scarpe&Scarpe and Pittarosso are due to merge
The financial group Pillarstone has taken over Scarpe & Scarpe and is expected to create in the near future a large footwear retailing group in Italy by merging it with Pittarosso. Responsible & Sustainable Corporate Turnaround Fund (RSCT), a turnaround fund managed by Pillarstone Italy, obtained 70 percent of Scarpe ...
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ArticleOR Group puts its Siberian shoe factory up for sale
The Russian shoe retailer OR Group, formerly known as Obuv Rossii, has started searching a buyer for its Berdsk-based shoe factory S-TEP, the Novosibirsk regional government said in a statement. S-TEP suspended operations on Aug. 1 due to financial difficulties. The factory was launched in the early 2000s and currently ...
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ArticleRichemont to sell majority stake in YNAP to Farfetch and Emirati businessman
Richemont has signed a deal to initially sell a 47.5 percent stake in its online fashion retailing unit Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) to Farfetch and a 3.2 percent stake to Symphony Global, one of the investment vehicles of the Emirati businessman Mohamed Alabbar. The move will make YNAP a neutral distribution ...
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ArticleABG reaches deal to take over Ted Baker
The American brand management company Authentic Brands Group (ABG) and Ted Baker have reached an agreement on the terms of a recommended final cash offer by ABG-Robin BidCo, a newly incorporated entity wholly-owned by ABG, to acquire the entire share capital of the British fashion group for 110 pence ...
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ArticleCoats buys Renoflex and becomes a footwear component giant
Hot on the heels of the acquisition of Texon, a U.S. provider of footwear solutions, Coats announced the takeover of Rhenoflex, a German manufacturer of structural material solutions for the footwear industry. The back-to-back acquistions have turned the British industrial thread manufacturer into a significant supplier of components for the ...
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ArticleDella Valle wants to delist Tod’s
Tod’s’ main shareholder, Diego Della Valle, is offering €40 per share with the objective of delisting the Italian luxury goods company. The bid is being made by DeVa Finance, which is controlled by DI.VI. Finanziaria di Diego Della Valle & C,. and concerns 25.55 percent of Tod’s capital. The price ...
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ArticleJD Sports to sell Footasylum to Aurelius
On July 29, JD Sports Fashion exchanged contracts to sell Footasylum and its associated subsidiaries to the German private equity Aurelius Group for £37.5 million (€44.8m). JD Sports bought the chain of sports fashion stores in May 2019 but the acquisition was blocked last year by the British Competition and ...
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ArticleHow OpenMall plans to hold its first metaverse fashion show early 2023
OpenMall, an Italian startup specializing in social commerce, plans to hold its first virtual fashion show in the metaverse early 2023. Source: OpenMall Massimo Spica “We expect to finalize agreements with several brands by the end of the summer, and each brand will have its fashion show,” ...
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ArticleUnbound raises funds for its growth
Hotter Shoes’ parent company, Unbound Group, raised a gross £3.3 million by selling 22,004,615 shares at a price of 15 pence each in a placement. In addition to the placing, certain of Unbound’s directors and senior managers subscribed for 1,221,281 shares, under a subscription scheme, at a similar price and ...
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ArticleCoats takes over Texon as it expands into footwear
The British industrial thread manufacturer Coats is significantly increasing its presence in the footwear industry with the acquistion of Texon, a U.S. footwear solutions provider. Coats is buying Texon at an enterprise value of $237 million and a total net cash consideration of $211 million. The acquisition is based on ...
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ArticleKohl’s terminates talks to be bought by Franchise Group
The U.S. department store retail chain Kohl’s has put an end to talks to be taken over by the Franchise Group (FRG) at $60 a share. The offer valued Kohl’s at about $8 billion. Kohl’s said that its board “unanimously determined to conclude its strategic review process. The current financing ...
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ArticleMoncler sees footwear representing 10% of revenues
Moncler expects footwear to represent 10 percent of its revenues in 2025, driven by demand for luxury sneakers in the U.S. The Italian luxury goods brand, known for its down jackets, generated sales of €589.9 million in the first quarter of 2022, up a reported 61 percent on the year ...
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ArticleAldo’s North American creditors approve its restructuring plan
Aldo Group said that its North American creditors have voted in favor of its restructuring plan, almost two years after the footwear and accessories company filed for protection under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. However, the outcome of the procedure remains conditional to the creditors’ agreement for the international division, ...
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ArticlePikolinos aims to be a leader in sustainability
Pikolinos decided in January to adopt a new corporate structure giving to the three children of the founder Juan Perán Ramos full control of the Spanish footwear company, which is expected to end the fiscal year finishing in April 2022 with revenues of around €100 million. Under the new organization, ...
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ArticleACBC plans an IPO within two years
ACBC, a fast-growing Italian B Corporation which focuses on sustainable footwear, aims to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange within the next two years. In an exclusive interview with Shoe Intelligence, Gio Giacobbe, who founded the company in 2017 with Edoardo Iannuzzi, explained that the company has preferred ...
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ArticleScarpe & Scarpe debt restructuring scheme approved by creditors
The large majority, 87 percent, of creditors of the Italian footwear retailer Scarpe & Scarpe have approved the company’s debt restructuring scheme. The plan was approved by all preferential, or Class-1, creditors such as the Italian tax authority, the customs office and social security, and by 83 percent of unsecured, ...
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ArticleLanvin Group to be listed in New York by merging with a SPAC
Lanvin Group, the Chinse luxury goods group formerly known as Fosun Fashion Group, has entered into a merger agreement with Primavera Capital Acquisition Corporation (PCAC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction values Lanvin Group at a pro forma enterprise value of ...
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ArticleGerman shoemakers write off the Russian market
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the businesses of many German shoe and leather goods manufacturers, which had been built up over the past few years. “The consequences of this massive unrest are not foreseeable at this point in time,” said Manfred Junkert, general manager of HDS/L, the federal ...
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ArticleLi Ning excluded from Norway’s sovereign fund
The Chinese sportswear company Li Ning has been excluded from Norway’s sovereign fund, Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, because of possible links to alleged human rights abuses in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, said the Norwegian central bank, Norges Bank, which manages the fund. The fund’s Council on Ethics recommended ...
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ArticleSnipes with second major acquisition in the U.S. since December
Snipes continues its expansion in the U.S. with the acquisition of New England-based sneaker retailer Expressions, which operates 35 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Expressions was founded in 1989 as a fashion-oriented family business. In the years that followed, the company ...
