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PE Week Wire: Thursday, September 11, 2008Random Ramblings
- PE Week Wire: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Second Opinion
How-To Edition: How to keep your investors, how to pretend everything’s OK (Ahem, Blackstone), how to equitize a deal and how to raise prices at a store named “99 Cents Only.” Bloomberg: 99 Cents Only is a no-bullshit dollar store—when they say 99 cents, they mean there is no item over 99 cents in their store. Unlike say, their KKR-backed peers, Dollar General (more like, A Dollar, Generally). But the store’s founders didn’t account for long term headwinds like rising costs and inflation with that philosophy. How to solve it? They’ve raised prices, for the first time since opening in 1981, by a whole penny http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_VdG0kIU.f0&refer=home to 99.9 cents. Genius. (Via Wall Street Folly http://wallstfolly.typepad.com/wallstfolly/2008/09/99-cents-only-s.html )
- PE Week Wire: Thursday, September 4, 2008
Random Ramblings
- PE Week Wire: Thursday, September 4, 2008
Random Ramblings
- Platinum Equity Raises $2.75 Billion
Platinum Equity today announced that it has closed its second fund with $2.75 billion in capital commitments. For those paying close attention, this is about five months later than Platinum originally planned to close the fund, which principal Mark Barnhill attributes to rounding up a few stray cats (my words, not his). "We held the final close last Friday, but fund-raising was basically done for all intents and purposes by the end of Q1," Barnhill says, in his own words. "It just took a bit longer to get to the official finish line with a couple of LPs, so we waited."
- PE Week Wire: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Random Ramblings
- PE Week Wire: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Random Ramblings
- LBO Syndications arranged July and August
Advang Holding, Alliance Boots, Axtone, Casa Reha, Cash Systems, CEME, ConvaTec, Converteam, Emap, Euromedic, Expro, FoodVest, ISS Energie, Jost, KVT, Maillefer Extrusion, Maison du Monde, Neochimiki, Northgate, Photonis, Pret A Manger, Russian Alcohol, Safety-Kleen, SSP, Taminco, TMF Group, Xella International