Steve Madden buys accessories brand Kurt Geiger for 347 million

Kurt Geiger becomes American. The US group Steve Madden took over the British footwear and accessories brand for GBP 289 million (about EUR 347 million). It was sold by London-based private equity firm Cinven, which bought Kurt Geiger in 2015 (from Sycamore) for GBP 245m. “When I founded this company in 1990, I never imagined…