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• Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Announces Agreement to Sell Seven For All Mankind

  - 2007-07-26

  NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Merchant Banking ("BSMB"), a leading private equity firm focused on middle-market investments, together with founder Peter Koral and company management, has reached an agreement to sell Seven For All Mankind, LLC ("Seven For All Mankind") to VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) for $775 million in cash...

  Tags: agreement, apparel, banking, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., brand, Branding, Company, FINANCE, Investment, Mankind, MARKETING, NYSE Euronext, VF Corp.

• VF Imagewear, Inc. Announces Extensions to Strategic License Agreements

  - 2007-05-22

  New Agreements Will Solidify VFI's Position as the Global Leader in Baseball Licensed Apparel TAMPA, Fla. -- VF Imagewear, Inc., a subsidiary of VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), announced today that it has extended its strategic licensing agreements with both Major League Baseball Properties and the Major League Baseball Players...

  Tags: agreement, apparel, MLB, VF Corp.

• VF Imagewear, Inc. Acquires Majestic Athletic

  - 2007-02-28

  Acquisition of Branded Athletic Team Apparel and Uniform Company Positions VF as Leader in Major League Baseball Licensed Apparel NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- VF Imagewear, Inc., a subsidiary of VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), and Majestic Athletic, Inc. announced today that VF Imagewear, Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets...

  Tags: acquisition, apparel, FINANCE, Investment, MLB, VF Corp.

• Licensed sports apparel plays catch-up ball: new fads and teams help offset strike-impacted sales - includes article about 1996 Olympics mascot Izzy

  - 1995-02-06

  NATIONWIDE DSN REPORT -- Licensed sports apparel sales in recent years have hit one home run after another.Even with last season's baseball strike and hockey lockout, the business is still swinging for the fences.Whenever the market has seemed ready to fall off the pace, new fads helped push revenues higher....

  Tags: apparel, baseball, NHL, SALES, team, VF Corp.

• New textile group has good first meeting, but bad news. (New York Textile Group)(Fiber + Fabric Focus)

  - 1994-01-27

  Those attending the New York Textile Group's first luncheon meeting heard Chemical Bank chief economist Irwin Kellner's predictions for apparel and textiles in 1994. Kellner told members of the newly formed trade group that 4th qtr 1993's economic impetus would not be sustained into 1994, and he forecast below-average results...

  Tags: apparel, economist, fiber, SEC, Strategy, VF Corp.

• Wall St. hot on wrinkle-resistant biz in men's apparel; but cool on fleece and T-shirt areas in near future.

  - 1993-09-21

  The strong financial performance by men's apparel manufacturers has convinced some retail analysts that the men's tailored clothing market has emerged from a long slump. Strong sales of new wrinkle-resistant cotton apparel has prompted some analysts to increase earnings estimates for several manufacturers. Supplies greatly exceed customer demand for T-shirts...

  Tags: analyst, apparel, Johnson, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SALES, T-shirts, VF Corp.

• Analysts cut apparel firm net estimates. (clothing trade)

  - 1988-07-14

  Analysts Cut Apparel Firm Net Estimates NEW YORK FNS--With a sluggish retail environment torpedoing first quarter profits for many apparel manufacturers, Wall Street analysts have reduced their second quarter and 1988 earning estimates for some of the major players. ...

  Tags: analyst, apparel, earnings, FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Johnson, Ryan, SALES, VF Corp.