BIZCHINA> Top Biz News
![]() |
Source: Four Chinese businessmen to buy stake in Cardin
By Hu Yang (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-07-11 11:01
Four Chinese businessmen will buy an unspecified stake in the French fashion company Pierre Cardin to take over its brand and all business in China, an unnamed source close to the businessmen told China Business News. Sun Xiaofei, Chen Xiaofei, Pan Changhai and Hong Jianqiao are all from Wenzhou in east China's Zhejing province, which is China's manufacturing base of light industrial products. The four businessmen flew to France and signed a basket of cooperative deals with Cardin in April this year, the report said. In mid-June, Sun went to France again to negotiate the details of the takeover. Pan and Hong refused to expound on the plan, saying details about the deal will be announced when Sun, the main negotiator, comes back from France, where he is set to spend about 20 days with the 87-year old designer Pierre Cardin, founder of the fashion giant. There has been speculation ever since Cardin revealed its intention to sell the brand to Chinese companies. Earlier reports had said two Chinese shoemakers were planning to buy the brand for 200 million euros ($280 millon). "What is certain is that they will increase their stake in the future," a source with knowledge of the matter told the newspaper, adding that the terms agreed upon by both parties are "better than expected".
Cardin has granted licenses to more than 20 agents in China, a thorny issue the brand's new owners must tackle, the paper said, citing Zou Lisheng, president of Zhejiang's chamber of commerce in Guangdong province, where the four men have been running their businesses. Ma Jinlong, head of the Wenzhou Economic Association, said the four men are possibly the best candidates for Cardin, who have had many years of experience as agents and own factories and brands. But there is a long way to go for the Wenzhou businessmen after the takeover, according to Lu Xiao,a marketing expert at Fudan University. "Once stepping out of the ranks of luxury goods, a brand can hardly get back," he said. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
|
主站蜘蛛池模板: 巫溪县| 怀柔区| 清远市| 漳平市| 新巴尔虎左旗| 乌鲁木齐县| 新田县| 巴楚县| 芜湖县| 阿合奇县| 马边| 新闻| 和田市| 津南区| 措勤县| 平泉县| 昌平区| 九龙坡区| 潜江市| 玉山县| 阳谷县| 玉环县| 衢州市| 双江| 罗甸县| 泗洪县| 广宗县| 武胜县| 柘荣县| 平顺县| 沾益县| 东山县| 新乐市| 湘潭市| 磴口县| 察隅县| 平泉县| 吉安县| 宣汉县| 库尔勒市| 安吉县|