VF buys Dickies Workwear as a hedge against Amazon Business
Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg View) VF Corp.—which sells North Face jackets and Lee jeans among other brand-name clothing–announced today that it would acquire workwear maker Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co. for $820 million. This is the company’s first major purchase since it agreed in June 2011 to buy Timberland Co. for about $2 billion. Such a long gap was unusual […]