{"id":648391,"date":"2026-11-02T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648391\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T03:22:09","slug":"kathmandu-owner-kmd-brands-enters-exclusive-talks-over-possible-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648391\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathmandu owner KMD Brands enters exclusive talks over possible takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">KMD Brands &#8211; the owner of Kathmandu, Rip Curl and Oboz &#8211; is in exclusive talks with a US consumer brand group over a possible takeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Bluestar Alliance is carrying out due diligence on a potential acquisition of all KMD shares, after KMD revealed in September that it had received several approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The US company specialises in buying and managing consumer brands, with a portfolio that includes surf and lifestyle brand Hurley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The exclusivity agreement runs as late as 23 December, although KMD says there&#8217;s no certainty a binding offer or takeover will result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KMD Brands &#8211; the owner of Kathmandu, Rip Curl and Oboz &#8211; is in exclusive talks with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-648391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}