Luxury Shoe Brand Jimmy Choo Seeks Listing

< p > Labelux Group GmbH, a Swiss luxury luxury group, seeks to sell part of its equity in exchange for brand expansion in Asia by publicly listing its luxury a target= _blank href= //www.sjfzxm.com/.

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< p > Labelux Group GmbH only plans to sell a minority stake. It is possible that the initial public offering (IPO) will be sold in London this year or to other investors. It has already held an initial meeting with investment bankers since last month, but has yet to make a final decision.

This IPO will make the Jimmy Choo estimate of 1 billion.

Labelux Group GmbH bought a majority stake in Jimmy Choo brand at 526 million pounds in 2011. Since then, Jimmy Choo has achieved 30% business growth every year.

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< p > sources pointed out that in recent years, the vigorous growth of IPO market in Europe and America is one of the reasons why Jimmy Choo seeks to be publicly listed. Luxury group and retail companies are especially popular among investors.

Last Friday, the British teenager listed in London "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "> dress /a /a Boohoo.com PLC (BOO.L) shares rose 40% on the first day, although its annual pre tax profit is only 3 million 200 thousand, but its market value has exceeded 500 million pounds.

The French luxury luxury brand Moncler SpA (MONC.MI), which was launched in December last year, has soared 47% on the first day. Italy cashmere less than a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > clothing > /a > group Brunello Cucinelli (MONC.MI) and Italy luxury leather goods brand (MONC.MI) Ferragamo has doubled its share price since it was listed on the market respectively.

According to statistics, the first three months of this year are the most active quarter of the IPO market in Europe and the United States in the past seven years. The Alibaba, whose market value is as high as 150 billion dollars, finally decided that the news of going to the US market will not only promote the US market, but also indirectly boost the IPO upsurge in Europe and Jimmy Choo's most accessible London market.

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< p > Labelux Group GmbH declined to comment on the rumors of Jimmy Choo's listing.

People familiar with the matter said to WWD, "now discussing the next step of Jimmy Choo accelerating growth" is the most normal process for Labelux Group GmbH, but anything will change the economic climate where everything is possible, such as the situation in Ukraine.

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Zhou Yangjie, the founder of the P Jimmy Choo brand and the Jimmy Choo of Malaysia born shoemaker, left the brand in 2001, then set up a private shoe shoe customization business and taught the shoemaking process.

Tamara Mellon, another founder of the brand, started to develop its personal namesake lifestyle brand after selling Jimmy Choo, and raised $25 million from friends Tory Burch and others. The brand was launched at the end of 2013.

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P Jimmy, founded in 1996, has expanded its original dress and footwear business from men's footwear, accessories and perfume to its expansion in Asia. It plans to launch Japanese and Chinese e-commerce websites by the end of this year. Choo

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< p > Labelux Group GmbH also owns a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp" > Italy < /a > leather brand Bally Bally, Zagliani and the British clothing brand Belstaff, which is founded by the German family of the Klein family and is currently a family investment company.

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