CVC Capital Partners Company Description
CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia. Its portfolio of more than 40 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark, and Tower Records. It bought luggage maker Samsonite in 2007. Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management.
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