Agent Provocateur Sale Plan Temporarily Shelved

Agent Provocateur co-founder and designer Vivienne Westwood's Joseph Corr e still retained a minority stake in the brand, and luxury underwear brand Agent Provocateur was on sale.

Private equity fund 3I Group PLC (III.L) passed

Later, decided to shelve the sale of British luxury.

Brand Agent Provocateur.

Last August, 3I Group PLC hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) Goldman Sachs to conduct strategic evaluation of its assets Agent Provocateur internal spy, exploring strategic options including sales, when the value of the Agent spy insider was about 200 million pounds.

Quoted sources said the assessment concluded that

There is still much room for growth in the internal spy industry, so 3I Group PLC decided to suspend the withdrawal of the brand.

With the support of 3I Group PLC (III.L), the total number of global stores in the Agent Provocateur internal secret agent exceeded 100 in December last year, reaching 101, and plans to expand 15-20 new stores annually.

The United States is the largest market for the brand, second in the UK.

3I Group PLC (III.L) bought a majority stake in Agent Provocateur in 2007 for 60 million.

Thanks to the acceleration of global expansion, the brand achieved EBITDA 960 million in the 2014 fiscal year ended March 29, 2014, an increase of 54.8% and a EBITDA profit margin of 200 basis points to 18%.

Driven by a 7% increase in sales in the same store, annual sales rose 36% to 53 million 100 thousand pounds.

The group again stressed that in July 2013, the joint line of the famous Spanish movie stars Pen e lope Cruz and M Cruz Nica Cruz launched the sub line brand L "Agent by Agent Provocateur" very successful.

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