Tag: IPO

Retail Round-up: Etsy Files for IPO, Hopes to Raise $100 Million; Quiksilver Postpones Release of Q1 Earnings Report, Prompts Audit Committee Investigation; American Apparel Workers Form Activist Group to Keep Their Jobs

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Etsy, the favorite online retailer for crafted goods, has decided to go public. The company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, March 4, 2015, and is looking to raise $100 million. According to their filing, Etsy says they have 1.4 million sellers and 19.8 million buyers, with a revenue of $108.7 million. […]

Twitter Takes Flight, Goes Public, and Effects On Youth Culture Markets

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Twitter went public yesterday (TWTR), Wednesday, November 6, 2013, offering 70 million shares at a price of $26 per share raising the IPO value to $14.1 billion. (In comparison, Facebook’s IPO last year was $16 billion.) But today, Thursday, on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the stock increased in […]

SkullCandy Raises $125 Million for IPO; Goes Under Nasdaq Symbol SKUL

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Designer headphones continue to lead youth culture trends when it comes to wearable technologies. SkullCandy going public proves it.