GOLDEN GOOSE ACQUIRED BY PERMIRA

Golden Goose, the Italian brand whose deliberately scruffy-looking trainers sell for as much as GBP 1,000, has been sold for just under Euro 1.3 billion from The Carlyle Group to Permira, the private equity firm that also owns Dr Martens and recently acquired Reformation. Permira will buy the business from the US buyout group, which acquired the firm for Euro 400 million just three years ago.