Business
CVC Capital Partners of London agrees to pay $1.11 billion for the luggage maker.
July 6, 2007
Samsonite Corp., the world’s largest luggage maker, said it will cease manufacturing in the United States for the first time in its 91-year history, citing higher labor costs and an underutilized plant.
Feb. 23, 2001
Samsonite Corp. said it will buy back as much as 59% of its shares for $40 each, or about $480 million, dropping an earlier plan to sell 50% of the company to an investor group and pay shareholders a special dividend.
May 14, 1998
Archives
Venice-based TBWA Chiat/Day, which won a $15-million account from Samsonite in February, launched an ad campaign designed to reposition the Denver-based luggage maker as a provider of global travel solutions, which Samsonite hopes will reverse recent losses.
June 5, 1997
From noise-canceling headphones to a gift card — yes, a gift card — here’s the perfect gift guide for the eldest immigrant daughter in your life.
Dec. 21, 2023
Investor Carl C.
May 15, 1993
California
We still have lots of airfields, but gone from the landscape are the runways — near Griffith Park, near Wilshire and Western, in the Palisades — that could have challenged LAX for air superiority.
June 13, 2023
World & Nation
A Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is in U.S. custody, authorities said.
Dec. 11, 2022
Movies
Not even Brian Tyree Henry and Bad Bunny can move ‘Bullet Train’ beyond its basic action shtick.
Aug. 7, 2022
Opinion
If I hadn’t gone to graduate school, I’d probably be the UPS driver my father, who valued stable employment, wanted me to be.
June 19, 2022