- Leading department stores group focusing on key product categories including womenswear, menswear, homewares, health and beauty, accessories, lingerie and childrenswear.
- Debenhams has 153 stores including 10 Desire by Debenhams stores, across the UK and Ireland with approximately 10.9 million square feet of trading space and around 21,500 employees.
- In addition Debenhams has 48 international franchise stores in 17 countries outside the UK and Ireland.
- Debenhams has a successful own brand portfolio of approximately 55 own brands (such as Debut, Maine New England, Red Herring and Thomas Nash) including 25 Designers at Debenhams brands.
TPG, the US buy-out firm that backed the £1.9bn buy-out of Debenhams in 2003, said to have sold out of Debenhams after brokers at Merrill Lynch on Tuesday placed 120m Debenham shares at 81.6p with a mystery buyer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/27/debenhams-private-equity-investor-sells-stake
