Retail & Consumer

Brookstone

Hong Kong PE firm Sailing Capital and Chinese conglomerate Sanpower bought Brookstone out of its first bankruptcy for about $173 million in 2014. A second Chapter 11 in August 2018 closed all 101 mall stores, but airport stores and the website kept operating throughout.

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1965
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Sailing Capital and Sanpower Group

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