
a consortium bought the company for $2B. Wolverine Worldwide ( WWW ) will end up with the Sperry, Keds, Saucony, and Stride Rite brands - while Blum Capital and Golden Gate Capital will get Payless and Collective Licensing International. Post your comment
will acquire the PLG wholesale and retail divisions, which contain the brands Sperry, Saucony, Stride Rite , and Keds as well as over 300 Stride Rite store locations, while the two private equity firms will collectively acquire the Payless Domestic
Collective Brands ( PSS ) +10.1% premarket following a Korean business newspaper report that South Korean retailer E-land is planning a $1.8B bid for the owner of Payless and Stride Rite shoe stores. Post your comment!
context of a related topic in the 10-K. Collective Brands ended up closing 298 of the underperforming Payless stores and 54 Stride Rite stores in 2011, for a total of 352 closed stores. The filing doesn’t say how many hundreds of employees lost their jobs
turned in a performance of 20%-plus growth, led by the strong popularity of Sperry and continued strength at Saucony and Stride Rite . However, Saucony, while still growing, appears to be finally slowing on tough comparisons from the advent of lightweight
Hemisphere. Combining with the wholesale Stride Rite business should improve scale economies ..... solid margins in Latin America, while Stride Rite brands are gaining favor globally ..... on a heavy debt burden to finance the Stride Rite acquisition and currently maintains
Collective Brands is the holding company for Payless ShoeSource, Collective Brands Performance + Lifestyle Group (formerly Stride Rite ), and Collective Licensing. With 4,458 stores as of the April 2011, Payless is the largest family-oriented footwear
Valuentum Securities Inc. (in millions of USD) Company Background Collective Brands adopted a new business model in 2007 when Payless Shoes acquired Stride Rite . The Payless segment of the store consists of over 4,400 Complete Story »
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is benefiting from a running tailwind but is also taking market share despite focusing on the running specialty channel. Stride Rite also had a positive quarter. We view licenses such as Star Wars and programs at department stores like Nordstrom JWN as contributing