Reuters – Moleskine Steps Closer to IPO

Italy's Moleskine has taken a step closer to listing its shares on the Milan stock market, a move that would make the notebook maker the third Italian luxury brand to go public in less than two years. In a statement on Friday, the maker of thread-bound jotters modelled on originals used by Vincent Van Gogh and Ernest Hemingway said Italian market regulator Consob had approved the first of a series of documents needed for an IPO. Moleskine, which has already received the go ahead from the Italian stock exchange for an initial public offering, is controlled by private equity fund Syntegra Capital.

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