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Payless ShoeSource to buy Stride Rite for
KANSAS CITY, Missouri. (AP) Payless ShoeSource (PSS) said Wednesday it will buy contending shoe store archipelago Stride Rite (SRR) for about $800 million.
As soon as the deal is complete, most likely in the third quarter, Payless said it will change it's corporate name for you to Collective Branding, the holding company that will operate the Payless along with Stride Rite stores under their own labels, as well as Collective Certification International, a brand growth and licensing firm.
Shareholders of Step Rite, which works 300 stores as well as licenses or possesses such brands as Keds, Saucony and Tommy Hilfiger Footwear, would likely receive $20.50 any share, a Thirty-two.6% premium over the $15.Forty five price at which stocks closed in investing Tuesday.
Collective Logos would also suppose Stride Rite debt.
Company officials said the unified business would be able to better targeted specific customer markets with a wide range of prices, as well as having an estimated 19% business for children's footwear.
Matt Rubel, Payless' chief executive officer,www.atmaskin.se/parajumpers.html, would likely become CEO associated with Collective Brands, which would keep its head office in Topeka. Stride Rite's head office would remain in Lexington, Bulk., and Collective Accreditation would remain operating out of Denver.
"This transaction is squarely on strategy and driven simply by its strong expansion potential," Rubel said in a statement.
The corporation, which operates practically 4,600 merchants, said it expected your move to add to income this year.
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