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BC Partners readies Coin department stores for sale

Venture capital owner of Italian department store chain Coin is accelerating the sales process by tasking Rothschild investment bank with an exploratory mandate to evaluate the various options. The fund, owner of the retailer after it acquired the business from PAI Capital Partners in 2011, would have been reportedly exploring different...

Fashion

Coin aims abroad and creates a new brand

Italian department stores are shaking off the feeling of being poor cousins of Saks and Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Galeries LaFayette and Printemps in Paris, and are conquering positions in the international department store sector. This has been helped by the acquisition, in January 2010, of 100% of the share capital of Upim, a nationwide...