Best Buy and founder Richard Schulze have ended talks whereby he and private equity investors were seeking three board seats in exchange for acquiring a minority stake in the consumer electronics giant, Bloomberg reported. Schulze wasn’t able to line up debt and equity financing, according to sources cited by the news service. Schulze’s attempt to arrange a smaller deal with Cerberus Capital Management, Tpg Capital and Leonard Green & Partners also ended. Hopes a deal might be achieved had risen earlier this year after Best Buy posted better-than-expected holiday sales. With a stake of about 20% Schulze is the company’s biggest shareholder and had sought since last year to take over the company he founded more than 40 years ago. He resigned as chairman in June and new CEO Hubert Joly has since stabilized sales, closing some stores and improving e-commerce operations. Schulze might still come up with a last-ditch proposal but it seems unlikely.
- 3/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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