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Weinberg Capital Partners Acquires Besson Chaussures

On May 30, 2018, asset manager Weinberg Capital Partners acquired retailer Besson Chaussures from Vivarte SAS

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Weinberg Capital Partners’ 1st transaction in the Retail sector.
  • This is Weinberg Capital Partners’ 16th transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2018-05-30
Target Besson Chaussures
Sector Retail
Buyer(s) Weinberg Capital Partners
Sellers(s) Vivarte SAS
Deal Type Divestiture

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Besson Chaussures

Aubiere, France
Besson Chaussures is a shoe retailer with a network of 135 stores. The Company offers an attractive selling proposition based on value and fashion (leather shoes representing 60% of total sales) at affordable prices (average price of c.€40) targeting mainly women. Besson Chaussures was founded in 1982 and is based in Aubiere, France.

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Buyer

Weinberg Capital Partners

Paris, France

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Asset Manager
Founded 2005
PE ASSETS 1.9B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Weinberg Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm specializing in majority leverage buyouts in mature and mid-sized companies located in France and in Southern Europe. The Firm invests in profitable businesses with strong growth potential in all sectors expect in high-tech companies. It looks to invests in companies with an enterprise value of between €40 to €300 million. The firm seeks to acquire majority interests and prefers to have a Board seat in its portfolio companies. Weinberg Capital Partners was formed in 2005 and is based in Paris.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 16 of 39
Sector: Retail M&A 1 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 3
Country: France M&A 16 of 38
Year: 2018 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-12-04 Groupe Climater

Toulouse, France

Groupe Climater is a designer, producer, maintains, and operates HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) engineering systems for the manufacturing, healthcare, housing, retail, offices, and public facilities sectors. The group mainly operates in the south of France and the Paris region from its 15 locations. Groupe Climater was founded in 1989 and is based in Toulouse, France.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-08-21 REALEASE Capital

Suresnes, France

REALEASE Capital is a professional equipment leasing company. Specialist in the progressive rental of technological assets (IT, telecom, industrial, audiovisual, medical, media, equipment and digital equipment. REALEASE Capital was founded in 1986 and is based in Suresnes, France.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Vivarte SAS

Paris, France
Category Company
Founded 1896
Sector Apparel/Textiles
Employees17,000
Revenue 3.1B EUR (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Vivarte is the #1 footwear and clothing retailer in France with an extensive portfolio of brands (including La Halle aux Chaussures, Chaussland, André, San Marina, Minelli in the shoe sector and La Halle, Kookaï, Liberto, Caroll in clothing). The company has a very strong position in the "value for money" segment of the market and is also active in Spain and Switzerland.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Retail M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-09 Defimode SAS

Brioude, France

Défimode is a French clothing retailer that focuses on providing affordable, high quality products for the whole family.

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