{"id":30276,"date":"2012-04-25T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30276"},"modified":"2012-04-25T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:47:10","slug":"suitors-bidding-on-collective-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30276","title":{"rendered":"Suitors Bidding On Collective Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/logo_cbi.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/logo_cbi.png','popup','width=203,height=182,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/logo_cbi-tm.jpg\" height=\"89\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Logo Cbi\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectivebrands.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collective Brands<\/a><\/strong>, the owner of zombie brands <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airwalk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Airwalk<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionstreetwear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Streetwear<\/a><\/strong>, and (sadly) <strong>Sims<\/strong> is reportedly up for sale, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2012\/04\/24\/bidder-team-for-payless-owner-could-break-up-conglomerate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The team, private-equity firm <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldengatecap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate Capital<\/a><\/strong> and bootmaker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolverineworldwide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolverine World Wide Inc.<\/a><\/strong>, are competing in the last stretch of a months-long auction for Collective Brands, owner of Payless ShoeSource as well as brands including Keds, Stride Rite and Sperry Top-Sider, according to people familiar with the matter. . . The pair is dueling for the deal against South Korean conglomerate<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elandgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-Land\" target=\"_blank\">E-Land Group<\/a><\/strong>, these people said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>E-Land recently made a run at buying the LA Dogers. We&#8217;re not sure what any of this means other than maybe, just maybe, this deal will finally let the Airwalk, Vision, and Sims brands die in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2012\/04\/24\/bidder-team-for-payless-owner-could-break-up-conglomerate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collective Brands, the owner of zombie brands Airwalk, Vision Streetwear, and (sadly) Sims is reportedly up for sale, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. The team, private-equity firm Golden Gate Capital and bootmaker Wolverine World Wide Inc., are competing in the last stretch of a months-long auction for Collective Brands, owner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30278,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}