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    XXL appoints interim CEO after ownership shift

    5 June 2025

    The Nordic sports retailer names a new interim leader following ownership changes and a leadership shake-up.

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    Frasers Group acquires majority stake in XXL

    28 May 2025

    The UK retail group takes control of a leading Scandinavian sports chain facing liquidity pressures and strategic uncertainty.

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    ​Altor sells 6.9% of RVRC shares

    14 June 2024

    Private equity company Altor has sold shares in outdoor company Revolution Race (RVRC) for SEK 397 million (€35.2m) last Friday, habit.se reported. The sale was made at a discount of about 7.3 percent compared to RVRC’s last closing price on Thursday. Altor, which recently bought Renewcell’s bankruptcy estate, had a ...

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    Altor buys the remaining assets of bankrupt Renewcell

    6 June 2024

    The private equity company Altor Equity Partners has acquired the bankruptcy assets of the textile recycling company Renewcell for an undisclosed sum. As part of the acquisition, Altor is creating the new company Circulose, a name already closely associated with Renewcell. The Swedish textile recycling company was founded in 2012 ...

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    UPDATE: RevolutionRace goes public

    8 June 2021

    According to ehandel.se, RevolutionRace from Sweden has published its prospectus and IPO price on June 7 (we reported earlier). The latter lands at SEK 75 (€7.44-$9.06) per share, which corresponds to a market value of just under SEK 8.5 billion (€843m-$1.02bn). Founders Pernilla and Niclas Nyrensten, who currently own 34 ...

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    Swedish DTC brand RevolutionRace with new chairman

    22 January 2021

    RevolutionRace (RVRC), a Boras, Sweden-based D2C startup owned by Altor, a Stockholm-based private equity investment firm, has received a prominent addition to its board. E-commerce professional Paul Fischbein is taking over as chairman of the outdoor company that made around €50m in sales in 2020. RevolutionRace was founded by Pernilla ...

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    Changing of the guard at Rossignol

    5 November 2020

    (SGI) After 16 years at the helm of Groupe Rossignol, Bruno Cercley will hand over the position of CEO to Vincent Wauters, who joins the company on Dec. 1, to pursue the global development of Groupe Rossignol’s core business while continuing to develop the enormous potential of apparel and e-commerce. ...