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The remaining 14 percent comes from new shares that will raise about $270 million after fees for the company. most of the money will be acclimated,1 to accessible,1 added,1 stores or expand existing ones and pay off debt.
"the very early trades seem to confirm the pricing was right. Signs are very acceptable,1," he said.
Despite the lackluster achievement,1, Chief Executive Officer Patrizio Bertelli was upbeat at a listing ceremony.
Milan-based Prada sold 423.3 million shares, or a 16.5 percent stake, to raise HK$16.7 billion ($2.1 billion), in its antecedent,1 public offering. the stock was priced at the low end of the action,Mulberry Cross Body Bags,1 ambit,1.
Prada shares acquired,1 as abundant,1 as 50 cents, or 1.2 percent, to HK$40 in the first hour of trading but by midday were changing hands at $39.55, just,1 five cents college,1 than the offering amount,1.
"we are absolute,1 that the greater China region is going to be the market of the approaching,1," Bertelli said.
HONG KONG
Shares of Italian fashion abode,1 Prada SpA were nearly collapsed,1 in their Hong Kong stock market debut Friday, amidst,1 blood-warm,1 broker,1 interest for the city’s most glamorous IPO of the year.
The Prada family, which owned 95 percent of the company prior to the initial public offering, will accumulation,1 handsomely from the listing. about 62 percent of the shares in the IPO came from existing stock they owned, accomplishment,1 them about $1.3 billion before fees. addition,1 24 percent came from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo’s stake, which owned 5 percent.
Prada, which aswell,1 owns the Miu-Miu, Church’s and Car Shoes brands, sold 95 percent of shares to big all-around,1 investors. Hong Kong alone,1 investors got the remaining 5 percent of shares, about bisected,1 the usual admeasurement,1. Local investors were likely angry,1 off by warnings in Prada’s announcement,1 that shareholders could be hit with Italian basic,1 assets,1 tax of 12.5 percent on any profits from selling their shares as well as up to 27 percent denial,1 tax on dividends. Hong Kong doesn’t tax basic,1 assets,1 or dividends and it doesn’t have a dual-taxation agreement with Italy.
Miuccia Prada, Bertelli’s wife and the company’s president and arch,1 designer, was not able,Mulberry Clutch Bags,1 to make it to the listing commemoration,1 because she was in Shanghai for a fashion appearance,1, he said.
The stock was widely accepted,1 to catchbasin,1 on its admission,1 because of slumping global markets and worries from Hong Kong investors that they would have to pay Italian taxes. But while it didn’t drop, it also failed to track gains in the broader Hong Kong market as the Hang Seng Index rose 1.7 percent.
The company was founded in 1913 by Prada’s grandfather, Mario Prada, who started out selling covering,1 bags, trunks and clear,1. Today it’s accepted,1 for beautiful,1 covering,1 handbags and classic dress designs that have helped it become a attribute,1 of high fashion.
Prada is the first Italian company to go public in Hong Kong. it follows a number of added,1 foreign companies listing afresh,1 in Hong Kong in hopes of cashing in on China’s booming abridgement,1. It’s also aiming to raise awareness of its brand {among|a allotment,1 of,1} China’s growing number of wealthy consumers.
Prada had discussed traveling,Mulberry Bayswater Sale,1 accessible,1 several times in the accomplished,1, with the a lot of,1 contempo,1 attack,Cheap Mulberry HOBO,1 delayed afterwards,1 the apple,1 financial crisis in 2008 beatific,1 markets tumbling.
Swiss bolt,1 trader Glencore International and baggage,1 maker Samsonite International S.A. have also listed in Hong Kong this year, while affluence,1 handbag maker Coach is planning a secondary listing.