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On the Record · Claires Stores

Claires Stores acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Claires Stores bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
Claire's Stores, Inc.
Word for word“In May 2007, the Company was acquired by investment funds affiliated with, and co-investment vehicles managed by, Apollo Management VI, L.P. (“Apollo Management,” and such funds and co-investment vehicles, the “Apollo Funds”), and Claire’s Stores, Inc. became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Claire’s Inc. (the “Acquisition”).” 10-K for 2016
mergerMay 2007—
Claire's Stores, Inc.
Word for word“The Apollo Funds acquired us in May 2007 in a merger transaction (the “Acquisition”) that was financed by equity contributions from the Apollo Funds and through the incurrence by the Company of a significant amount of indebtedness under a bank credit facility and the issuance of senior and senior subordinated notes (the “Merger Notes”).” 10-K for 2017
acquisitionMay 2007—

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Claires Stores’s annual reports (10-K for 2018, 10-K for 2017, 10-K for 2016) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2018-04-20. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.