Word: brandsness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Investors see the possibility of expanding the brands in China, India and Russia, adding secondary lines and product extensions. "All companies we get involved with have attractive growth characteristics," says John Megrue, a co- CEO of Apax Partners, which just bought Tommy Hilfiger. "Well-run consumer companies ought to grow...
"Entrepreneurs can grow a business to about $50 million," says William Smith of Global Reach Capital, a new private-equity firm that specializes in consumer brands and just invested in Tory Burch, a New York City--based apparel and accessories brand. "That's where we come in. We can take...
But unlike Gucci Group or any other conglomerate, private-equity firms aren't in the investment for the long haul. Brands bought today will undoubtedly be on the market again in five or so years, sold to another private-equity firm or a luxury conglomerate?or they are taken public...
Yet at a moment when trendsetters complain that ultraformatted luxury brands like Dior, Chanel and Gucci are becoming too predictable, Diesel, with its quirky stores and advertising and its outsider chief, is suddenly at center stage, a success story few would have predicted.
HOLLYWOOD IS SO inextricably linked to our cultural ideals of beauty and glamour that it's no mystery why a cosmetics company would want to hitch its wagon to a star. Louise Brooks' bob kept hairstylists in business in the 1930s. Betty Grable's legs inadvertently sold the first disposable...