French luxury goods giant LVMH buys Les Echos from FT group
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French luxury products group LVMH said on Monday it had bought French financial newspaper Les Echos from Britain's Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, and had agreed to sell rival title La Tribune.
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Luxury luggage brand Samsonite agrees to be bought by private equity firm CVC Capital for $1.7bn.
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French luxury group LVMH is poised to sell its loss-making fashion house Christian Lacroix to the second-biggest US duty-free retailer Falic Group.
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Premier Foods PLC said Monday it will buy RHM PLC for 1.23 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) in cash and shares to create Britain's biggest food producer.
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LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA has sold its Christian Lacroix fashion house to U.S.-based Falic Group, a spokeswoman for the French luxury goods giant said Tuesday.
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The luggage maker said it agreed to be bought by the private equity firm in an all-cash deal, including assumption of debt.
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Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of about 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira. The two parties valued the deal at 685m euros ($850m; Â£472m).
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Permira Advisers, manager of Europeâs largest buyout fund, increased its stake in the Valentino Fashion Group to 60.2 percent by purchasing Canova Finanziariaâs shares for 491.4 million euros ($668 million). The shares were bought for 35 euros each through Permiraâs Red & Black Lux SARL unit, Permira said. Valentino Fashionâs chairman, Antonio Favrin, and his associate, Dario Segre, controlled the 18.95 percent Valentino Fashion stake through Canova. Permira, based in London, offered to buy Valentino Fashion last month in a transaction valuing the company at 2.6 billion euros, lured by its Hugo Boss clothing brand, and plans to bid for the rest of the outstanding stock. Valentino is based in Milan.
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LVMH, the world&#39;s biggest luxury goods company, has beaten forecasts with a 14-percent rise in first-half operating profits, helped by a rebound in retailing and strong sales at Louis Vuitton.
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Private equity firm Fortress Investment Group LLC has agreed to buy oil tank operator Stelmar Shipping Ltd. (SJH) for $677 million, Stelmar said on Monday.
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SIF hf. plans to buy Labeyrie Group for an enterprise value of &#36;425 million.
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US private equity group Blackstone is buying the Hilton Hotels chain for $26bn (Â£13bn) in an all-cash deal.
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Privately-owned British fashion retailer  New Look may be sold for 2 billion pounds ($3.91 billion) after  private-equity firms Apax and Permira received at least three  bid approaches for the firm, The Sunday Times said.
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Platinum Equity will acquire Covad Communications for about $304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private equity firm.
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The Blackstone Group agreed to buy the Tussauds Group, owner of the Madame Tussauds wax museums, for Â£1 billion ($1.9 billion) in cash.
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Premier Foods, the owner of brands such as Branston Pickle and Ambrosia Cream Rice, buys fellow food company RHM for Â£1.2bn.
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Clothing company Tommy Hilfiger Corp. said Monday that it agreed to purchase the trademarks of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, including Lagerfeld Galleries and other Lagerfeld collections, for an undisclosed cash amount.