French outerwear brand K-Way, part of Italian group BasicNet, has returned to the UK with a new flagship store on King’s Road in London as it looks to solidify its position in the British market and as a leading player in the premium outerwear market. “This new opening is part of our European expansion journey, we see the UK as a big focus...
6 Mar 2025
Golden Goose, a luxury sneakers, apparel and accessories brand has received a 12 percent strategic minority investment from Blue Pool, a Hong Kong-based investment firm and family office. The company, founded in 2000, said in a statement that funds advised by Permira, the global investment firm, will retain a majority investment in Golden Goose....
28 Jan 2025
Private equity firm Permira has acquired a significant minority stake in K-Way, the entire share capital of which is currently owned by BasicNet. The company said in a release that while BasicNet will hold approximately 60 percent interest in K-Way, Permira through Permira Growth Opportunities II will become a shareholder with 40 percent stake....
28 Oct 2024
CommentSold, a cloud-based SaaS platform that enables live and social selling across multiple shopping platforms and channels, including social media networks, merchants’ own websites and their CommentSold-powered branded mobiles app, has received an investment from Permira. Permira is a global private equity firm which scales tech-enabled...
18 Aug 2021
Italian luxury streetwear brand Golden Goose has appointed former Chanel global chief executive officer Maureen Chiquet as its new Chairman of Board of Directors. Chiquet will replace Patrizio Di Marco, the former CEO of Gucci, and work alongside Silvio Campara, the company’s CEO since 2018. Chiquet’s appointment demonstrates Golden Goose’s...
11 May 2020
New York – Golden Goose, Permira and The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) announced Wednesday that the private equity firm will acquire Carlyle’s majority stake in the Italian luxury fashion brand. The transaction is subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in the next months. “This is really about backing the sneaker trend, the...
12 Feb 2020
BACKGROUND The British may call them "Doc Martin's" and the Americans "Doc Marten's"; regardless of how you pronounce them, there is a good chance everyone will agree on this point: No boot in the world has ever managed to claim nonconformist and iconic adjectives over such a long period of time. There was no decade in the last almost sixty...
23 Aug 2019
