public offering (IPO) or a debt issue. McDonald felt there were two significant reasons for pitching Lululemon on a financing proposal. First, raising funds through a stock offering would allow the company’s founder, Dennis Wilson, and the two private equity firms, Advent International and Highland Capital Partners, to realize the value
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GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY REPORT 2013 About Bain & Company’s Private Equity business Bain & Company is the leading consulting partner to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders. Private equity consulting at Bain has grown 13-fold over the past 15 years and now represents about one-quarter of the firm’s global business. We maintain a global network of more than 400 experienced professionals serving PE clients. Our practice is more than three times larger than that of the next-largest
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MAY 7, 2007 [pic] COVER STORY By Emily Thornton Roads To Riches Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports—and why the public should be nervous Steve Hogan was in a bind. The executive director of Colorado's Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority had run up $416 million in debt to build the 10-mile toll road between north Denver and the Boulder Turnpike, and he was starting to worry about the high payments. So he tried to refinance, asking
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NEW PRODUCTS AND BRAND EXTENSIONS To facilitate the discussion, it is useful to establish some terminology. When a firm introduces a new product, it has three main choices as to how to brand it: 1. It can develop a new brand, individually chosen for the new product. 2. It can apply, in some way, one of its existing brands. 3. It can use a combination of a new brand with an existing brand. A brand extension is when a firm uses an established brand name to introduce a new product. When a new
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ACKNOWlegement On successful completion of our Brand Audit on “Tapal”, we would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of a n umber of people who helped in understanding and making this report a reality. Foremost, to Almighty Allah who blessed us with strength and ability to complete the report. Further We would like to appreciate the valuable contribution of our instructor, Dr. Kamran Siddqui, who believed in our knowledge, encouraged us at every step and also for his
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simply because of losses in excess of its expected losses that reduce the equity investment” (emphasis added). Consequently, if the amount of the equity investment at risk at the entity’s inception (or when a reporting entity first became involved with the entity) was determined to be sufficient, losses later incurred by that entity do not by themselves require a reporting entity to reconsider whether the entity has sufficient equity in accordance with ASC 810-10-15-14(a). A reporting entity must consider
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Pages • General information 3 • Staff information 4 • Product line 5 – 17 • Chart of accounts 18 • Trial balance 19 • Income statement 20 • Statement of owners equity 21 • Peer evaluation 22 General Information The name of our company is Bovee and we are located in Amersfoort. We are selling cars, just one brand: Peogeot. Peugeot delivers top quality cars for business people and families
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million of equity financing, under the assumption of choosing the level production method 2. We would like to give up 30% of the equity control of our company 3. Based on our analysis, the return on $2 million investment will be 12.9%, which is almost 4% higher than the bank interest rate 4. If the investors can provide us with some extra support, such as management teams, marketing support, branding effect, corporation opportunities, we will consider to give up more equity controls (e
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CO-BRANDING OF CREDIT CARDS: AS A TOOL FOR CUSTOMER ACCQUISITION Contents CO BRANDING: .......................................................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION: ....................................................................................................................................... 3 TYPES OF CO BRANDING: .............................................................................................
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Momentum 2014 Middle-Market Private Equity Outlook A CohnReznick LLP Report FEBRUARY 2014 Table of Contents Today’s Private Equity Business Environment.................1 Critical Issues Facing Private Equity in 2014...................6 Private Equity Due Diligence Focus................................24 The Road Ahead..................................................................29 A CohnReznick Report 3 Preface The private equity (PE) industry is well-positioned for an optimistic
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