All Corporations articles – Page 160
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Lenzi Egisto, an important Italian supplier of innovative textiles to...
Lenzi Egisto, an important Italian supplier of innovative textiles to the athletic shoe industry, is going into liquidation. Its family shareholders, who refused to inject money into the company after the death of Egisto Lenzi in July 2009, have approved a proposal to split the assets and sell them separately ...
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Next October, the expansion of XXL Sport in Sweden will...
Next October, the expansion of XXL Sport in Sweden will continue with the opening of a large warehouse of 20,000 square meters in the Swedish town of Örebro, which may be subsequently expanded to up to 60,000 m². By locating its newest distribution center in Örebro, the Norwegian sporting goods ...
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The Spanish subsidiary of Li Ning, LN Plus Iberoamerica, is...
The Spanish subsidiary of Li Ning, LN Plus Iberoamerica, is seeking to get payments from Spanish retailers and sponsored clubs to reduce the amounts owed to creditors, but it is not sure whether it will continue to operate in the country, according to a local fashion news website, moda.es. Last ...
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JD Sports Fashion has acquired Gio Goi, a British young...
JD Sports Fashion has acquired Gio Goi, a British young fashion brand that fell into administration, a former of bankruptcy, last month. The brand was previously controlled by Pentland Group, which is also JD's majority shareholder. According to reports in the British press, Sports Direct International had shown interest in ...
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Apax Partners has completed the acquisition of Cole Haan,...
Apax Partners has completed the acquisition of Cole Haan, and Jack Boys has become its chief executive, as planned
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Tecnica Group and its advisors have stopped looking for companies...
Tecnica Group and its advisors have stopped looking for companies that may be interested in buying its 60 percent interest in Lowa. They are currently evaluating the opportunity to accept the offer of an unnamed strategic investor. While the sale of Lowa could bring in fresh money, Tecnica would lose ...
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Cybex International will be “going private” after shareholders overwhelmingly approved...
Cybex International will be “going private” after shareholders overwhelmingly approved the sale of the outstanding publicly traded shares to the company's largest shareholder, UM Holdings, on Feb. 6. The merger was approved in October by the company's board of directors. Based in Medway, Massachusetts, the manufacturer of fitness equipment will now ...
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An institutional investor based in Chicago, Winona Capital Management, has...
An institutional investor based in Chicago, Winona Capital Management, has acquired a minority stake in LK International, the Swiss company that markets the Kjus brand of activewear, through a capital increase. A partner in Winona, Luke Rees, has been appointed to LK's board of directors. As he was for many ...
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Bauer Performance Sports has completed a secondary offering of...
Bauer Performance Sports has completed a secondary offering of new shares which raises the stake held by Kohlberg Funds to 31.0 percent on a non-diluted basis and 25.5% on a fully diluted basis
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Mountain Warehouse, the British specialist retailer, has been identified as...
Mountain Warehouse, the British specialist retailer, has been identified as the company that has been holding talks to purchase some of the assets of Euromark, the large-scale Polish outdoor distribution and retail group that went bankrupt a few weeks ago. Euromark filed for bankruptcy late last year and a district ...
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Grifone, the Spanish sports outerwear company, has reported a change...
Grifone, the Spanish sports outerwear company, has reported a change of ownership and management intended to foster its international development, with a focus on Asia, the U.S., and central and northern Europe. Sandro Rosell, president of FC Barcelona, along with Eugenio Padrés and Pepe Navarro, are now co-owners with Ramón Cierco, ...
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Sportzun, the former Spanish-based distributor of O'Neill in Spain and...
Sportzun, the former Spanish-based distributor of O'Neill in Spain and Italy, is reported to have filed for voluntary bankruptcy proceedings
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The North Face will be moving to a new EMEA...
The North Face will be moving to a new EMEA office of VF Corporation at Stabio, near the Swiss city of Lugano, in April this year. After transferring its European operations from Montebelluna, Italy, to its current office in Lugano, it will now combine them with those of the other ...
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The Noël group has regained the license for the Umbro...
The Noël group has regained the license for the Umbro brand in France. Noël, a company involved in children's, men's, military and safety shoes, had licensed the brand for many years. Umbro International then took over the operation, called Noël Soccer, in two stages, starting with a 49 percent stake ...
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Sole Technology, the group selling action sports brands from Etnies...
Sole Technology, the group selling action sports brands from Etnies to Emerica, Altamont and ThirtyTwo, has moved into a new European head office in the Houthavens district of Amsterdam. The company first set up its European office in the Dutch capital in 2007, but the new building is equipped with ...
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Sequential Brands Group has announced that it has closed the...
Sequential Brands Group has announced that it has closed the merger of Heelys into a subsidiary of Sequential. The company had entered into an agreement, dated Dec. 7, 2012, to acquire Heelys through a merger process, subject to a number of terms and conditions that have since been fulfilled. The approval ...
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Vittoria Industries, the Italian maker of tires for bicycles, has opened...
Vittoria Industries, the Italian maker of tires for bicycles, has opened a new tire compound factory near Bangkok employing about 60 people. This will be the first facility for a tire maker to use Nanographyte in its compounds. Developed by Directa Plus S.p.A., with which Vittoria has a joint venture, Nanographyte ...
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Boa Technology, the maker of the patented Boa Closure System,...
Boa Technology, the maker of the patented Boa Closure System, has announced that it will open an office in Europe in 2013. The precise location of the new office is not yet finalized. The company currently has offices in Steamboat Springs and Denver, Colorado, as well as Chiba, in Japan, ...
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Gio-Goi, an urban fashion brand partly owned by the Pentland...
Gio-Goi, an urban fashion brand partly owned by the Pentland Group, went into administration (a form of bankruptcy) last week. The Guardian reports that Sports Direct International (SDI), the largest British sports retailer and wholesaler, is in talks to acquire the brand. SDI, which has been diversifying into fashion, already bought ...
