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...Google’s colourful open-plan working environment, complete with campus bicycles, proved fruitful....
...One example of this is SwytchBike, which turned to Indiegogo to launch its add-on electric motor for bicycles....
...The $4bn takeover of one of the UK’s largest technology companies has hit an unexpected pothole after it was forced to delay the sale due to a small number of expensive bicycles....
...“Everyone I talked to said they were going to go home, get married, have children and live the American dream,” he has said, and he began selling strollers out of his father’s bicycle repair shop....
...Mobike is gearing up for a showdown with its main rival ofo — so-called because the name looks like a bicycle — which raised $130m in third-round funding last October....
...Mr Scouller drew parallels with 3i’s abortive bid for Electra in 1999 which failed after it was rejected and could not be raised under UK Takeover Panel rules....
...The offer for SVG marks a turning point in Britain’s listed private equity sector, where shareholders have increasingly turned activist in recent years: Electra, SVG’s peer, was subject to a campaign by...
...It is preordained that Electra will mastermind the murder of her mum....
...Halfords is paying £18.4m to acquire Tredz, an online retailer of premium bikes and cycling accessories, and Wheelies, the UK’s largest provider of bicycle replacement for insurance companies....
...Bicycle bag, £2,650; repair kit, £594, both hermes.com 23 Designed in Japan and made in the US, Giro Cycles’ Mt Fuji Ekiden socks are, as the name suggests, inspired by a long-distance relay ride around...
...Research from Cowen and Company, the US brokerage, shows the sector is highly fragmented; no single company has more than 5 per cent of the market....
...Today, it offers a diversified product range, selling bicycles, leather goods, cola, pet accessories (made in partnership with Bruce Webber, the US fashion photographer) and, in tribute to its erstwhile...
...Watches are assembled by hand in its factory, but Shinola is design driven, also offering leather goods, bicycles, art books, and even footballs....
...From those original nine employees, Shinola’s watch division (it also makes bicycles, journals and leather goods at separate sites) has grown to a staff of 58 working on the production side....
...Mr Armstrong has been a face of Nike since 1996 and was instrumental in the US sportswear company’s expansion into cycling....
...Trek bicycles also said it was terminating its long-term relationship with Mr Armstrong....
...Other issuers from last year include Standard Life UK Smaller Companies, BlackRock Latin American, Cayenne and Electra, which offered a hefty 5 per cent yield....
...The UK company was formed in 1998 when private equity group Electra Partners combined three businesses – Sinco, Protecta and Sala – in a £102m management buy-out....
...The deal to buy Quilter comes only a month after Bridgepoint bought Wiggle, a UK online bicycle and sportswear retailer in a deal that was also valued at £180m....
...The company also has offices in Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait....
...That unit is Citadel Solutions — now Omnium, a reference to what we’re told is some sort of bicycle race....
...Now a privately owned company in which Electra is no longer involved and in which the bicycle-riding chairman has a 99.5 per cent stake, William Cook has slimmed down to sales last year of £70m, with 650...
...Many of its portfolio companies, such as Sligro, a leading Dutch food group, and Accell, the biggest bicycle maker in Europe, have been held for a decade or more. Teslin’s ideal holding period?...
...CamelBak has donated systems that filtrate tap water to shops in the US, including outdoor and bicycle shops, to encourage people to buy one of its bottles and fill them up....
...Mr Wilson was a member of Safetykleen’s board after its initial management buy-out from US company Safety-Kleen Corp in late 1998, which was backed by Electra Partners, where he worked at the time....
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