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...While a leveraged buyout might save the shoemaker, Lex writes, few private equity investors are willing to take the risk....
...Through it all, the firm took to heart the advice its patriarch gave to his four boys: “Shoemaker, stick to thy last.” Focus on what you are good at, do it right, and keep quiet about it....
...Email Robert at robert.armstrong@ft.com Follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this column: Let’s hope Birkenstock will preserve its...
...He writes after news last month that L Catterton, a private equity fund backed by LVMH (owner of Louis Vuitton, Givenchy and Marc Jacobs, among others) bought a majority stake in the shoemaker for €4bn....
...Adidas broke with the two shoemakers’ usual rivalry by retweeting the ad with the words: “Together is how we make change.”...
...The buyout group paid €1.3bn to acquire Italian shoemaker Golden Goose. DD can’t figure out which price tag is more eye-popping....
...August British shoemaker Church’s will sell you one (the Mirfield) for £270. Paul Stuart, the temple of high-end Americana, has a pair for $450....
...I’d ended up in this small, horse-obsessed town a 90-minute drive from Seville because of a chance conversation with a friend, the London-based shoemaker, Penelope Chilvers....
...At one point during the film, someone calls him “the greatest shoemaker of the 20th and 21st century”. To which I would only add: “Yes, but what about the rest?”...
...The only UK company to have held a digital only meeting so far is Jimmy Choo, the shoemaker....
...After 15 years of isolation, Robert Mugabe’s administration wants to mend ties with the west by settling $1.8bn in arrears to the IMF, World Bank and African Development Bank....
...I buy my formal shoes from Edward Green, the best shoemaker in the world in my opinion. I prefer no socks. AW Bauer, Brunnsgatan 4, 11138 Stockholm (+468-104 780)....
...It has attracted textile manufacturers from Turkey and shoemakers from China and turned Addis Ababa into a bustling hub. With 90m people, Ethiopia has scale....
...Robert Schwartz, the 75-year-old president of New York shoemaker and retailer Eneslow, said nine of his company’s 32 staff were over 60....
...Maybe, like the elves and the shoemakers, everything happens at Hermès on the stroke of midnight? Or maybe this is France, and this is l’heure du déjeuner....
...Silver Point, founded by former Goldman Sachs employees Edward Mule and Robert O’Shea in 2002, has been equally aggressive in the past, taking big, controlling stakes in politically-sensitive businesses....
...Even GJ Cleverley, the English shoemaker founded in 1958, has decided to launch men’s bags....
...From the moment the seductive, sinister shoemaker (Robert Luckay) arrives, danger is in the air....
...The desperation of chief executive Robert Benmosche to offload this troublesome asset could hardly be more obvious. E-mail the Lex team in confidence...
...A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke, by Ronald Reng, Yellow Jersey, RRP£16.99 The German goalkeeper Robert Enke represented his country and was good enough to be signed by Barcelona....
...Six years ago, an all-woman team from Goldman Sachs, the US investment bank, showed up at a pitch to advise on the private equity sale of Jimmy Choo, shoemaker to the wealthy, wearing the company’s luxury...
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts recently bought UK pet accessory chain Pets at Home and Nordic healthcare group Ambea from rival buy-out groups....
...Michele Norsa, Salvatore Ferragamo chief executive, said duty-free sales of the luxury shoemaker’s handbags and ties were suffering as airports remained shut....
...Robert Clergerie, the Parisian shoemaker who has been producing them since the 1990s, believes they are enjoying a renaissance, thanks to the sustainable fashion movement....
...Its decline followed dismal debuts from China Lilang, the men’s fashion company, Peak Sport Products, the shoemaker, and Metallurgical Corporation of China, the engineering and construction company....
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