Article: VF closes on purchases of Vives Vidal, Joan Bellanger. (Brief Article)

WYOMISSING, Pa. (FNS) -- VF Corp. has completed its previously announced purchase of the innerwear firms Vives Vidal SA of Barcelona, Spain, and Joan Bellanger Enterprises, its Paris affiliate, for about $154 million.

Under the terms of the agreement, VF paid $115 million for the outstanding stock of the two firms and assumed about $39 million in outstanding debt.

Combined annual sales of Vives Vidal and JBE amount to about $150 million.

The purchase strengthens VF's presence in the international innerwear market, which it entered last January when it acquired Valero Group, the French maker of ...

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