Jack Wills considers sale or float for 2012

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Fashion retailer Jack Wills is preparing for a stake sale or float next year which could value the retailer at up to £500m.


Reports suggest that the retailer is in talks to appoint Goldman Sachs to advise it on its options. The general understanding of the situation within journalistic circles is that a sale of a stake is more likely than a float, at least for the moment.


Founders Peter Williams and Robert Shaw own around 70 percent of the business between them with private equity firm Inflexion holding the remaining shares.


Any deal is likely to be done in 2012.

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