Sentences with phrase «bought by private equity firm»

(Last night, office supplies retailer Staples (spls) said it was being bought by private equity firm Sycamore Partners, a year after its own mega deal to buy smaller rival Office Depot failed to win over regulators.)

Not exact matches

Just ask Krispy Kreme, the iconic doughnut maker that will go private by early summer, following a buy - out from JAB Beech, a private equity firm that announced it will acquire the brand for $ 1.35 billion.

Safeway was bought last year by investors including private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP.

Now he's once again putting his money where his six - year - old's mouth is — by co-investing with Brazilian private equity firm 3G to buy Kraft (KRFT).

In fact, he just bought into a company that it majority owned by a private equity firm whose co-founder is credited with coining the phrase «private equity.»

MGF is owned by Aéropostale lender Sycamore Partners, a private - equity firm that has bought many retailers.

Buffett and 3G, the private - equity firm founded by Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann, previously teamed up to buy Heinz in 2013 and they cut costs, a strategy they aim to repeat with Kraft.

CPC is majority owned by London - based private equity firm Terra Firma who bought the business from billionaire James Packer in 2009.

After floating on the stock exchange, the outfit expanded and won contracts in the UK with the NHS, before being bought by one of Australia's top 100 companies, then taken over by a private equity firm, ending up incorporated into a company owned by the Dubai royal family - bearing no relation to its initial purpose of being an»em ployee - led» mutual to provide more personalised services.

In 2014, Rossi licensed his technology to a company called Industrial Heat, which was formed by private equity firm Cherokee, a company that focuses on buying real estate and has a goal of cleaning up old industrial sites for redevelopment.

Vertrue was itself bought out by management, private equity firms One Equity Partners and Brencourt Investors and venture capital firm Rho Ventures for $ 855M inequity firms One Equity Partners and Brencourt Investors and venture capital firm Rho Ventures for $ 855M inEquity Partners and Brencourt Investors and venture capital firm Rho Ventures for $ 855M in 2007.

Private equity firms buy companies by relying on debt, which usually winds up on a target's balance sheet.

In September 2011 the company was bought out by private equity firms CVC Capital Partners, based in New York City and Los Angeles - based Leonard Green & Partners, and has since then paid $ 1.8 billion in dividends to shareholders.

Toys R Us is owned by three companies — private - equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital, and real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust — that bought the company for about $ 7 billion in 2005.

Multibillion dollar private - equity firms such as Blackstone Group LP — which helped drive up prices by buying thousands of single - family homes to rent in Arizona, California and Florida are already are looking elsewhere.

Bloomberg reports that Richard Schulze, Cerberus Capital Management and two additional private equity firms will make a buyout offer for Best Buy by the end of this week.