After the indiscretion about Ermenegildo Zegna, there is an air of IPO also for Moleskine, which has obtained from Borsa Italiana the judgment of admissibility to listing of its ordinary shares.
This is what can be read in a note issued by the market company, which confirms what was anticipated by some sources and press rumors. The sponsor of the operation is Mediobanca, the press release specifies. Moleskine has applied for listing using the tripartite prospectus and the admissibility judgment is the approval given to the first of the documents presented, ie the registration document.
Now the company that produces the popular notebooks will have to present the rest of the documentation (information note and summary note) to obtain the defined go-ahead. At the same time, Moleskine will also have to obtain the necessary authorizations from Consob.
Moleskine is controlled by the private equity fund Syntegra Capital, which holds 67,7% of the capital. The other shareholders are Index Ventures with 15,2%, the founder Francesco Franceschi with 10,6% and management with 6,5%. In 2011 Moleskine recorded a consolidated turnover of 66,6 million euros, a consolidated Ebitda of 28,6 million and a consolidated net profit of 15,8 million. The net financial position as at 31 March 2012 was negative by 52,1 million.
