US: PPR's Redcats Group to buy United Retail for $199m
Author: just-style.com | 11 September 2007
Redcats Group, the home shopping arm of French luxury goods group PPR, is to buy United Retail Group Inc for $198.9m in a move that will give the company its first national retail store base in the US and shore up its position in the growing women's plus size apparel market.
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