UK: Stylo Buys Shellys Shoes For £1.5m
Shoe retail group Stylo, whose banners include Barratts and PriceLess, on Friday announced it had acquired Shellys Shoes for £1.5 million in cash. Shellys operates 11 stores in the UK, the majority of which are in London, and posted a pre-tax loss of £2.4m for 2002 on sales of £21.5m, Stylo said in a news release.