AEA Investors
AEA-backed ThreeSixty Group buys US lifestyle brand
AEA Investors-owned ThreeSixty Group, a China and US-based business that designs, sources and distributes consumer products for US retailers, has acquired lifestyle brand The Sharper Image from Iconix Brand Group for $100 million.
Private equity – it's all about the personalities
When I first joined AVCJ, I was told by my publisher Dan Schwartz that private equity is a people’s business. The full significance of these words didn’t hit home until sometime later, during the dotcom boom, when I saw how potent a mix of savvy investors...
Bill Owens: Of battle and boardrooms
Bill Owens was 18 when a TV show changed his life. Now the Asia chairman of AEA Investors, Owens was a teenager living on a farm in Bismarck, North Dakota, when he saw a program called The Men of Annapolis – a documentary on the US Naval Academy in Annapolis,...