Sentences with phrase «purchased by private firms»

In the first year of implementation, the propensity of small public companies to be purchased by private firms, which are not subject to the act, increased by 53 %, the report said.

Not exact matches

Neiman, purchased by private - equity firms TPG and Warburg Pincus LLC for $ 4.9 billion in 2005, had been looking for an outright buyer for the retail chain while simultaneously laying the groundwork for an initial public offering of stock.

Wolf Richter is one of the very few who have described very clearly and in layman's terms the usual destiny of a retail chain purchased by a Private Equity (PE) firm: read any of his articles here about the retail meltdown and the dynamics will become depressingly similar after the third «victim».

Last week, speculation was rife over the potential purchase of IWG Plc by Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp and Brookfield Asset Management.

Consumers across the United States have purchased private label frozen steaks, chops and specialty items manufactured by J&G from door - to - door home delivery firms.

By Anthony Rivieccio Officially, the effort to rebrand the South Bronx started in April, when Keith Rubenstein, a founder of Somerset Partners LLC, a private equity firm, purchased two industrial properties — 2401 Third Avenue and -LSB-...]

Other deals included the acquisition of luxury yacht maker Privilege Marine by German private equity firm Aurelius; Italian men's tailor brand Boglioli by Spanish private equity firm PH Asset Management; Douglas strengthened its foothold in Italy through the purchase of two perfume chains (Limoni and La Gardenia); US private investors Rob Gough acquired streetwear brand DOPE and Charles Cohen acquired shoe brand Harrys of London, whilst US private equity firm KPS Capital acquired Taylor Made Golf Company.

Plato Learning, which was recently purchased by Chicago - based private - equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 143 million, served twice as many students in 2010 as in 2009, says Mary Schneider, director of marketing.

Outerwall has historically produced high returns on capital, and it's a business that doesn't need much tangible capital to produce huge amounts of cash flow (an attractive business), but it has been run similar to companies that get purchased by private equity firms — leverage up the balance sheet, issue a dividend (or buyout some shareholders), thus keeping very little equity «at risk».

A.I.G. had hoped to shore itself up, in party by selling certain businesses, but potential bidders, including the private investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG, withdrew at the last minute because the government refused to provide a financial guarantee for the purchase.

A case in point is the much heralded $ 45 billion purchase of Texas state utility TXU by private equity firm Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts and Texas Pacific Corporation.

In March a private equity firm took the unprecedented step of purchasing the rights to environmental services generated by a 371,000 - hectare rainforest reserve in Guyana.

As reported by CoinDesk, Falcon Group, a Swiss private bank, has also started offering a bitcoin purchasing service through clients» traditional accounts in partnership with the bitcoin brokerage firm Bitcoin Suisse AG.

In addition to cash infusions into flagging companies and direct acquisitions of properties, another common tactic taken by private equity firms is purchasing notes from lenders.