Consumer
PE-backed Chinese baby skincare brand bought by Johnson & Johnson
Private equity-backed Shanghai Elsker Mother & Baby, a Chinese manufacturer of natural baby skincare products, has been acquired by Johnson & Johnson. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed but the price is said to be around RMB650 million ($104...
PE firms compete for Everstone’s stake in VLCC – report
Several global and regional private equity firms are reportedly in the hunt for Everstone Capital’s 16% interest in Indian health and beauty treatment specialist VLCC.
Creador completes Indonesia food carve-out
Creador headed off an auction process to complete a carve-out of Indonesian cereals and snack foods producer Simba Indosnack Makmur from India’s Godrej Consumer Products.
TPG-backed Li Ning to issue $241m in convertible securities
Li Ning, the Chinese sportswear retailer backed by Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and TPG Capital, saw its stock drop 13.8% to HK$5.35 in Friday morning trading after announcing a plans to raise as much as HK$1.87 billion ($241 million)...
Orchid to cornerstone Time Watch's Hong Kong IPO
Orchid Asia will participate as a cornerstone investor in Chinese watchmaker Time Watch Investments' proposed Hong Kong IPO. The private equity investor will inject about HK$204 million ($26.3 million) for an 8.03% stake in the company.
Summit Partners to invest $25m in The Iconic
Summit Partners is expected to invest $25 million into Australian fashion online retailer, The Iconic.
J-Star completes clothing brand turnaround
Three and-a-half years ago, Olive des Olive, a hip teen clothing-brand based out of Tokyo, was suffering. Having filed for bankruptcy, its reputation frayed by allegations that its clothing came from a factory in China and had been re-labeled “Made...
Advantage sees 7x return on coffee chain deal
When Advantage Partenrs paid JPY15 billion ($146 million) for a 78% stake in Komeda Coffee in 2008, the chain was to a certain extent a victim of its own success. After more than 40 years of expansion the company had grown to around 300 stores and its...
J-Star exit sees 3x return on Olive des Olive exit
J-Star, a Japanese mid-market buyout firm, has exited Tokyo clothing brand Olive des Olive to wholesale company Takisada-Osaka, securing a return of more than 3x and an estimated IRR of 35-40%.
CVC ropes in Temasek, AIG for Matahari sale - report
CVC Capital Partners is reportedly roping in Temasek Holdings and American International Group (AIG) as cornerstone investors for its $1.5 billion partial exit from Indonesia's Matahari Department Store. The size of the offering could represent as much...
KKR shows its conviction in Masan
KKR has doubled down on the Vietnam consumer story. Following a $159 million commitment to Masan Consumer Corp. (Masan) in April 2011, the largest investment in the country from a private equity fund, KKR broke its own record last week by injecting a...
Advantage Partners sells Komeda coffee shop chain to MBK
Advantage Partners has agreed to sell its controlling stake in Japanese coffee shop chain Komeda to MBK Partners.
Billabong receives takeover bid from Altamont, VF Corp
Altamont Capital Partners has teamed up with US apparel company VF Corp. to submit a rival takeover bid for Billabong International. The consortium is offering to pay A$1.10 per share in cash – or A$527 million ($555 million) – for the Australia surfwear...
CVC completes another Samsonite selldown
CVC Capital Partners has exited HK$1.45 billion ($187 million) worth of shares in Samsonite International as part of a HK$2.24 billion sell-down with fellow investor Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
KKR boosts Masan Consumer stake with $200m investment
KKR has more than doubled its investment in Vietnam’s Masan Consumer Corp. (Masan), committing $200 million on top of the $159 million it paid for a 10% stake in the company two years ago. It is the largest ever private equity investment in Vietnam,...
Navis acquires Vietnamese seafood processor
Navis Capital Partners has acquired a stake in Go Dang Joint Stock Company (Godaco), one of Vietnam’s fastest growing seafood processing companies, through its Singaporean subsidiary Panga Hold.
Indonesia’s Berrybenka gets funding from Gree Ventures
Gree Ventures, the VC arm of social Japanese social networking giant Gree, has completed its third investment in Indonesia, providing a Series A round of funding to fashion-focused e-commerce start-up Berrybenka. The size of the investment was not disclosed.
CVC-led consortium completes $1.7b KFC take-private
A CVC Capital Partners-led consortium has completed a MYR5.12 billion ( $1.7 billion) privatization of Malaysia's KFC franchise and its parent company.
Navis, Rabo exit Thai duck processor
Navis Capital Partners and Rabo Capital have exited Thai duck processing firm Bangkok Ranch, plus its Dutch subsidiary Duck To Holdings, to a consortium led by the companies’ founders. The deal values the combined assets at THB5.7 billion ($188 million).
Advantage Partners buys Sanyo’s camera business
Advantage Partners has acquired Sanyo Electric’s digital camera unit. Panasonic, which took control of its former competitor in 2009 in a JPY400 billion ($4.6 billion) acquisition, said it chose to do business with Advantage because of the private equity...
Summit invests $26m in Southeast Asia online retailer
Summit Partners has invested EUR20 million ($26.4 million) in the German holding company of Southeast Asian online retailer Lazada. The capital will be used to expand the company’s product offering.
Carlyle relists Chimney, completes partial exit
The Carlyle Group has completed a partial exit from Japanese restaurant chain Chimney having relisted the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange three years after taking it private. It is the private equity firm’s first IPO in Japan this year, having abandoned...
Focus Media agrees to $3.7b PE-backed buyout
Chinese advertising company Focus Media has agreed to a $3.7 billion management buyout backed by a consortium of private equity firms. It is by some distance China’s largest-ever buyout transaction and is only surpassed in the broader private equity...
Equity Partners buys majority stake in New Zealand’s AHM
Equity Partners has acquired a stake of around 70% in New Zealand camping and gardening product distributor Amalgamated Hardware Merchants (AHM).