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ArticleLa Halle receives 25 bids for its assets
After having been placed into receivership, La Halle received 25 bids for its assets, which represent a significant part of its activity and would allow it to save more stores than in a previous bidding round.
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EU clears Permira’s purchase of Golden Goose
The European Commission has cleared the acquisition of the Italian firm Sneakers Maker, the owner of luxury footwear and apparel brand Golden Goose, by the private equity firm, Permira because the deal does not raise competition concerns. Permira, which is buying the company from fellow private equity firm Carlyle, already ...
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boohoo fully acquires prettylittlething.com
boohoo, the UK fashion online retailer, has taken full control of prettylittlething.com (PLT) by buying out its minority shareholders Umar Kamani and Paul Papworth in cash and shares. boohoo is paying an initial consideration of £269.8 million (€300.2m-$332.4m) for the 34 percent it does not hold in the website that ...
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La Halle receives 7 offers for 60% of its business
La Halle, the big French low-cost clothing, footwear and accessories retailer owned by Vivarte, will have to be sold piecemeal, while more time is being granted by a court to find a buyer for André, the more high-end shoe retailer, which is currently in bankruptcy proceedings.
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JD’s takeover of Footasylum is blocked
After a more in-depth review of JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition last year of the Footasylum chain in the U.K., Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on May 6 its decision to block it, arguing that it would lead to a “substantial lessening of competition nationally,” with higher prices and ...
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Ferragamo acquires Arts
For about €15 million, Salvatore Ferragamo is buying the whole capital of Arts, an Italian company in Scandicci, near Florence, that specializes in the production of prototypes, engineering, quality control and the monitoring of suppliers for the production of men’s shoes. The owner of Arts is Gerry Ferragamo, a nephew ...
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Footway bids for Sportamore
The Footway Group, a Swedish online shoe retailer that is expanding internationally, announced on Feb. 17 that it wants to buy Sportamore, a leading Swedish online retailer of sports products. Footway has offered to pay 439 million kronor (€41.5m-$44.9m) in cash and shares for Sportamore, or a premium of around ...
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Change of control for Baldinini
An Italian investment company, Finross, is taking over the control of Baldinini, the well-known Italian shoe company. According to a local newspaper, Il Resto del Carlino, Finross, which is owned by the Rossetti family and based in Bologna, is acquiring a 60 percent stake in the 110-year-old company for €13 ...
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Shandong Ruyi fails to complete Bally’s takeover
It’s not clear at this stage whether Shandong Ruyi will be the new owner of Bally. The Chinese textile and clothing manufacturer has failed to obtain financing to complete the $600 million acquisition of the Swiss shoe brand, according to the Reuters. Bally confirmed that the deal that was announced ...
