Jimmy Choo

“Now, remember, this is a company that's going to sell for 1.2 billion dollars in about 15 years from where we're on the story. They start the company with just a hundred. Her dad puts up a 150,000 dollars. That's all they start with the company.”

“She says, I've learned to always retain majority ownership and control.”

“In 2001, Jimmy Choo sells 50% share to Phoenix Equity Partners and leaves the business. Three years later, Lion Capital buys Jimmy Choo for one hundred and one million dollars. Three years after that, Lion Capital sells Jimmy Choo for one hundred and eighty fi…”

“Our sales for the first year were 250,000 dollars. And the shop cost us 15,000 and the only, there's only one employee other than Sandra and myself.”

“Jimmy sells his 50% share for around eight to ten million dollars to Phoenix equity partners. And he leaves the business.”

“Manufacturers of everything pay fortunes for product placement in movies and TV. We got this huge call out entirely for free. Why? The show's creator said she put the reference in the script because she'd been in London and stopped by the store on Mottcombe St…”

“And because these people work for multiple clients, contact with a single stylist gave us many more shots at scoring a wind.”

“Our EBITDA going in when the deal was completed was 2.9 million. So make it about three million a year. Okay. Which is a lot for a company with only nine employees.”

“Kate Winslet, who was nominated for best actress for Titanic that year, she mentions that she's wearing Jimmy, Jimmy Choo shoes. That has such a positive effect on sales that going forward, Oscar night was a huge focus.”

“He did a bunch of businesses that probably the business business biggest success was the fact that her dad had helped scale and build Vidal Sassoon. So they just sold right before they found Jimmy Choo, a few years before they sold found Jimmy Choo, he had jus…”