Latest Corporate and M&A – Page 145
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Sports Direct and JD Sports Fashion are reportedly looking at...
Sports Direct and JD Sports Fashion are reportedly looking at the possible acquisition of Kitbag, a British firm that produces replica football strips for Manchester United and other teams
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Fletchers Sports Brands has renamed itself as Sunice after its...
Fletchers Sports Brands has renamed itself as Sunice after its main product line, and will launch a new website and corporate identity early next year
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ATK has set a new date of Jan. 27, 2015...
ATK has set a new date of Jan. 27, 2015 for shareholders to meet and vote on proposals to spin off its sporting goods business, including Bushnell, and to merge the rest of the group with Orbital Sciences
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Quiksilver has reached a definitive agreement to sell its majority...
Quiksilver has reached a definitive agreement to sell its majority stake in its U.K.-based online store, Surfdome Shop, to Surfstitch, the Australian online action sports retailer in which Billabong International held a 51 percent majority stake until August 2013. Under the agreement, Quiksilver will get about US$16 million for its ...
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Altamont Capital says it has made an investment in Huf...
Altamont Capital says it has made an investment in Huf Worldwide, the American brand of skate and street shoes founded in 2002 by a professional skater, Keith Hufnagel. It has also announced a partnership with Brixton, a California lifestyle apparel brand founded in 2004. Altamont is the San Francisco-based investment ...
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El Segreto del Mar has gone into liquidation. The Spanish...
El Segreto del Mar has gone into liquidation. The Spanish company had been performing very well in the past decade as the parent of the El Niño, which it had built into a major local surf and action sports label. The company was founded in 2002 by Javier Guerra, a ...
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GoPro, the American action camera company that went public in...
GoPro, the American action camera company that went public in June, raising $427 million, says it is planning a secondary offering worth a total of $800 million. Existing shareholders would sell shares worth $700 million and the balance of $100 million would come from newly issued shares. The additional funds ...
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Compass Diversified Holdings (Codi) has launched a secondary offering of...
Compass Diversified Holdings (Codi) has launched a secondary offering of trust shares intended to raise up to $125 million to repay a portion of its credit facility. Codi is the parent company of Camelbak Products, Ergobaby and Liberty Safe. It is also a minority shareholder in Fox Factory, which is ...
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Calida, the Swiss-based owner of the French Lafuma Group, is...
Calida, the Swiss-based owner of the French Lafuma Group, is reportedly discussing the sale of Oxbow
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Décathlon confirms that its parent company has changed its name...
Décathlon confirms that its parent company has changed its name from Oxylane back to Décathlon
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Sports Direct has raised its stake in Debenhams to 12.7%...
Sports Direct has raised its stake in Debenhams to 12.7%
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The Danish branch of Nordea Funds Oy has raised its...
The Danish branch of Nordea Funds Oy has raised its stake in IC Group to 5.0009% of the issues shares and voting rights
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Italy's Casa Editrice Scode has placed its consumer-oriented ski magazine,...
Italy's Casa Editrice Scode has placed its consumer-oriented ski magazine, Sci, into liquidation
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Cycling World, the leading U.K. publication for leisure and touring...
Cycling World, the leading U.K. publication for leisure and touring cycling, is launching Cycling World Ireland
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Pacific Brands of Australia has reportedly received an offer for...
Pacific Brands of Australia has reportedly received an offer for its Volley brand of tennis shoes
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Super Retail Group of Australia has reportedly indicated that it...
Super Retail Group of Australia has reportedly indicated that it is not interested in strategic partnerships with foreign retail groups such as Intersport or Sports Direct
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Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon, is changing its name...
Oxylane, the parent company of Décathlon, is changing its name back to Décathlon. The big French-based sports retailing group had decided to call itself Oxylane in March 2008 to act as the umbrella organization for many different specialty stores, but most of its international development has continued under the Décathlon ...
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Poc has announced that its North American office will relocate...
Poc has announced that its North American office will relocate to Park City, Utah from Aspen, Colorado in early November. The Swedish action sport brand, recently acquired by Black Diamond, said the region is a hotbed for outdoor professionals and benefits from a major transport hub in Salt Lake City, ...
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Performance Sports Group (PSG) has announced that funds managed by...
Performance Sports Group (PSG) has announced that funds managed by Kohlberg Management VI have sold 2 million common shares of the company for aggregate gross proceeds of C$37.5 million (€26.38m-$33.60m). PSG's products are marketed under the Bauer, Mission, Maverik, Cascade, Inaria, Combat and Easton brand names. Following the sale, Kohlberg ...
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Martti Uusitalo, who ran Halti between 2009 and 2014, has...
Martti Uusitalo, who ran Halti between 2009 and 2014, has sold his shares in the Finnish company to the Ingman Group of shareholders, which now owns nearly 90 percent of the equity. Uusitalo, who recently acquired control of another Finnish firm, Vauhti Speed, has also left Halti's board of directors, ...
