USA: Leather Firm WIlsons Finalises Private Placement.
Leading leather clothing and goods retailer, Wilsons The Leather Experts Inc, said on Tuesday it had completed a private offering of 900,000 shares of newly issued common stock. The Minneapolis-based firm said the private placement had raised net proceeds of $9.9 million. It also reaffirmed its fiscal 2002 earnings outlook of 95 cents to $1 per diluted share.