All Corporate articles – Page 91
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Compass Diversifed (CODI), which acquired Camelbak last August, has already...
Compass Diversifed (CODI), which acquired Camelbak last August, has already raised some money. It has now filed the documents for a secondary offering of 9,075,000 shares that should raise an additional $300 million. Shareholders cashing out include CCI Magyar Holdings, whose stake in CODI would then be reduced from 16.4 ...
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Amer Sports reports that Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company has...
Amer Sports reports that Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company has raised its stake in the company from 4.78 to 5.19 percent. Meanwhile, Amer says it has completed a share buyback program announced last Aug. 15, involving a total of 3 million shares purchased at an average price of €9.18. As ...
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Arc'teryx has opened its first European showroom in Annecy, France....
Arc'teryx has opened its first European showroom in Annecy, France. On 125 square meters, the European sales team will present there not only the collections, but also the brand's solutions for in-store building. It will also host European and regional sales meetings. Company officials say that Annecy was picked not ...
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Deuter celebrated the construction of its new headquarters in November....
Deuter celebrated the construction of its new headquarters in November. The company's parent company, Schwan Stabilo, is investing some €15 million in the project, which will comprise 3,300 square meters of office space and 7,000 square meters for the warehouse. The new building will use renewable energy resources is set ...
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Lundhags has officially opened a new office in Stockholm to...
Lundhags has officially opened a new office in Stockholm to house product development, marketing, finance and sales in an attempt to be closer to customers and key market players
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ABS Peter Aschauer, the specialty company of airbags and avalanche...
ABS Peter Aschauer, the specialty company of airbags and avalanche rescue backpacks, has decided to invest in its own production facility just 120 kilometers away from the equally new offices outside Munich. For the last three years, manufacturing has been sourced out to external partners, but ABS believes that own ...
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Equip Outdoor Technologies has completed its acquisition of Lowe Alpine...
Equip Outdoor Technologies has completed its acquisition of Lowe Alpine from Asolo for a reported amount of £20 million (€23.3m-$32.0m). To help finance the acquisition, an investment company, Matrix Private Equity, has taken a minority stake in Equip as well as a seat on its board of directors, chaired by ...
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Trilantic Capital Partners, a private equity firm active in North...
Trilantic Capital Partners, a private equity firm active in North America and Europe that focuses on consumer products among other segments, is buying Implus Corporation in partnership with
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Gokaldas Exports, the largest manufacturer of sports apparel in India,...
Gokaldas Exports, the largest manufacturer of sports apparel in India, is reportedly holding talks with Jack Wolfskin and several other companies that want to shift some of their sourcing from China to other Asian countries. Based in Bangalore, Karnataka, Gokaldas is chiefly known in the sports industry as a supplier ...
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Compass Diversified Holdings, the new investor behind Camelbak, has secured...
Compass Diversified Holdings, the new investor behind Camelbak, has secured fresh money by striking a deal worth $515 million of new debts to push its existing business and to buy more companies. Most recently, the private equity firm said that it had sold its biggest company in the portfolio, Staffmark ...
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Implus' chief executive, Seth Richards, and president, Todd Vore. Financial...
Implus' chief executive, Seth Richards, and president, Todd Vore. Financial details were not publicized. Implus specializes in insoles, shoe care products, socks, sports monitors and fitness products. Its brands include Sof Sole, Sof Comfort, Airplus, Apara, Yaktrax, Sneaker Balls, Little Hotties and Perfect fitness products. In an interview in September ...
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Entre Prises, a French company that is one of the...
Entre Prises, a French company that is one of the global leaders in the manufacture of climbing walls, is to buy one Spanish counterpart, Top 30 Climbing Walls. Founded in 1992 in Asturias, in the north of Spain, this manufacturer is said to be the market leader in its home ...
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Asolo denies a rumor according to which the company would...
Asolo denies a rumor according to which the company would be taken over by Oxylane, the French retail giant that owns Décathlon
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Schoeller, the manufacturer of technical fibers and fabrics, strongly believes...
Schoeller, the manufacturer of technical fibers and fabrics, strongly believes in its home country as its base for own production and product development. It recently acquired a Swiss laboratory, Tensis. Schoeller and Tensis have collaborated in product development on high-tech garments in the past.
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Last Thursday, the Salewa/Operalp group opened officially its futuristic headquarters...
Last Thursday, the Salewa/Operalp group opened officially its futuristic headquarters in Bolzano, Italy. The avant-garde building, whose shape recalls that of a mountain, is self-sufficient in terms of energy and CO2 free and is set to supply also neighboring companies with solar energy. The building comprises the offices of the ...
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The Odlo Sports Group is investing massively in its...
The Odlo Sports Group is investing massively in its European logistics and manufacturing facilities: The Swiss brand will bundle its central logistics and the administration of its German operations at a modern new site of more than 26,000 square meters in Brüggen, Germany. Construction will start in March 2012, and ...
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Spencer Frazer, founder of SOG Specialty Knives & Tools, and...
Spencer Frazer, founder of SOG Specialty Knives & Tools, and the U.S. company's chief executive, Fred Keller, have bought back the business from an equity investor, MCC Capital Partners, which stepped into the company in 2009. They have the backing of a new investment group comprising Gladstone Investment Corporation, The ...
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Lafuma has become an associate member of Fesi, the Federation...
Lafuma has become an associate member of Fesi, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, alongside other individual companies such as Adidas, Nike, Lotto, Puma and Tecnica. Its application for membership was unanimously accepted by Fesi's board of directors. Among other privileges, associate membership gives Lafuma the right to ...
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Deckers Corporation, parent company of Teva and other brands, has...
Deckers Corporation, parent company of Teva and other brands, has announced the $20.4 million purchase of nearly 14 acres of land at Goleta, in the county of Santa Barbara in California, to build a new corporate head office
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Effective Aug. 1, Findos Investor has acquired Maier Sports, the...
Effective Aug. 1, Findos Investor has acquired Maier Sports, the German brand of outdoor and snow wear, along with Gonso, the company's bike wear brand. Maier Sports was owned by the Maier family, led by Gerhard Maier as managing partner, who will seek retirement probably at the beginning of next ...
