{"id":648519,"date":"2026-11-02T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648519\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:58:10","slug":"kathmandu-owner-kmd-brands-in-exclusive-takeover-talks-with-bluestar-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648519\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathmandu owner KMD Brands in exclusive takeover talks with Bluestar Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>2 Nov, 2026 02:56 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Kathmandu owner KMD Brands has entered into exclusive talks with US firm Bluestar Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shares in KMD Brands, which owns retailers Kathmandu and Rip Curl, touched $2.15 on Monday morning after opening at $2.05 and announcing it is in exclusive takeover talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The stock was trading up more than 10% at 2.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The listed outdoor retailer\u2019s shares are down 90% in the past five<br \/>\n         years.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Generate Funds investment specialist Greg Smith said the company had been through \u201ca brutal few years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">KMD said on Monday it had entered an exclusivity agreement with US firm Bluestar Alliance, which owns the Dickies and Hurley brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 2 Nov, 2026 02:56 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[146753,25398,74,13738,45621,317785,650,138,183762,1017,78,36168,649,9878,1304,111,139,69,10521,2738,39169,6492,180,26592,301,84401,5977,102],"class_list":["post-648519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-146753","tag-25398","tag-after","tag-alliance","tag-announcing","tag-bluestar","tag-brands","tag-business","tag-curl","tag-exclusive","tag-in","tag-kathmandu","tag-kmd","tag-monday","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opening","tag-owner","tag-owns","tag-retailers","tag-shares","tag-takeover","tag-talks","tag-touched","tag-which","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648519","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=648519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}