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Vivarte sells Minelli to the owners of San Marina
The ailing French retailer Vivarte has sold its footwear and accessories brand Minelli to the businessmen Stéphane Collaert and Laurent Portella, who run the footwear brand San Marina. Collaert was involved in the purchase of San Marina, in February 2020, from Vivarte. Created in 1973, Minelli had been part of ...
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Vivarte in exclusive talks to sell Minelli
Vivarte has entered exclusive talks to sell its footwear and accessories brand Minelli to the businessmen Stéphane Collaert and Laurent Portella , who run the footwear brand San Marina . Collaert was involved in the purchase of San Marina, in February 2020, from Vivarte. Created in ...
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Beaumanoir is in talks to buy the Caroll brand
Beaumanoir , a French fashion group which bought a large part of the assets of La Halle , a French apparel and shoe retailer, is in exclusive talks to buy the women’s apparel brand Caroll from Vivarte . If the deal obtains regulatory clearance, it is scheduled to close ...
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La Halle will know its buyer(s) on July 8
La Halle , currently in receivership, will know who are its buyer or buyers on July 8, according to its current owner Vivarte . La Halle received 25 bids for its assets, which represent a significant part of its activity. A Paris-based commercial tribunal will decide to whom the ...
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La 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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La Halle’s administrators set June 9 deadline for bids
The court-appointed administrators supervising La Halle have set, in agreement with the company’s management, a June 9 deadline to present bids for the company or its assets. A Paris-based commercial court also placed the company into receivership to allow it to be sold piecemeal. Previously, La Halle had been ...
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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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La Halle plans to restructure
La Halle , part of the Vivarte group, is planning a new restructuring plan that would cut 101 jobs at its logistics department and headquarters. The plan will affect 63 jobs out of 467 at the Parisian headquarters and 38 jobs out of 300 at the logistical center in Issoudun, ...
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Vivarte confirms sale of San Marina
Reaching the probable end of its slimming-down process, the French Vivarte group has confirmed the sale of its San Marina chain of shoe shops and of a logistics subsidiary, SMC Services , to two French entrepreneurs, Thierry Le Guénic and Stéphane Collaert , and an investment firm, Société d’Investissement Grimonprez ...