Gloucester store will be located at The Kings Walk shopping centre while the Edinburgh site is located at the Cameron Toll shopping centre. The Entertainer is to open new stores in Gloucester and Edinburgh on Saturday, December 13th ...
Tags: shopping centre, Gloucester store, Toys
Disrupt Unlimited, the Brandix led start-up seed accelerator for the textiles, apparel and accessories sector, has partnered with Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative. Microsoft BizSpark’s global program helps software start-ups ...
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Eloquii, an online plus size women’s apparel retailer said it has raised around $6 million in a Series A round of funding. “With this new support, Eloquii will continue to deliver trend-right styles as well as expand their ...
Tags: Fashion Etailer, Apparel
Seafolly, Australia’s leading Swimwear Company, announced a new partnership with L Capital Asia, the Asian private equity fund sponsored by LVMH Mo Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A. (LVMH). L Capital Asia 2 will be acquiring a controlling ...
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Private equity firm India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) is set to expand its investment in food sector. The new investments will be led by Haresh Chawla, a partner of IVFA and the former CEO of Network18. The company will also expand its ...
Tags: Food Sector, Agriculture
Participants in the 2014 Automotive Warehouse Distributors Association (AWDA) Business and Education Conference donated $45,000 to the University of the Aftermarket Foundation. The money will be used to support the foundation’s ...
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With a Labor Government elected in the State of Victoria over the weekend, the major supermarkets may be seeing opportunities to move into new business sectors, if Labor implements some of its election promises. Last week Victorian ...
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Coffee.club, a subscription-based coffee club that delivers among the freshest access to organic, ethically sourced roasted beans on the market today, announces its launch on Black Friday to appeal to the more than 54% of Americans who ...
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Some of the biggest US-based retailers say that Alibaba would break American local retailers if Congress can’t prevent tax evasion and fraud. These companies have pointed to Alibaba when it hasn’t secured a place in US market. ...
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BackJoy Orthotics, LLC. has received a minority investment from Sandbridge Capital, which recently took a stake in Rossignol. BackJoy is best known for its SitSmart Pro seat accessory that supports the back but has expanded into footwear, ...
Tags: sports bras, sports apparel, Sporting Goods
Finland-based packaging company Huhtamaki will be selling its films business to German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs for $175m (€141m). Huhtamaki is known for supplying paper cups to McDonald's. The company stated ...
Tags: food packaging, Films Segment, Agriculture
Canadian private equity fund Onex has agreed to acquire Switzerland-based juice-box maker SIG Combibloc Group for around €3.75bn ($4.66bn). Out of the agreed amount, Onex will pay €3.575bn ($4.44bn) at the closing of the ...
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Freedom Foods signs dairy deal with China’s New Hope Group Australian food manufacturer Freedom Foods and its major shareholder the Perich Group have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with China’s ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into off-grid applications and its EnerPlex series of consumer products, ...
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Nampak will sell its paper business to Ethos Private Equity on behalf of the Ethos Fund IV for around $14m (R1.575bn). The sale will include Nampak's corrugated, sacks and tissue divisions, but will exclude its shareholding in Sancella ...
Tags: Paper Business, Private Equity, Agriculture