Retail conglomerate Genuine Manufacturers Group will shelve a planned initial public offering and as a substitute promote important fairness stakes in its enterprise to non-public fairness agency CVC Capital, hedge fund HPS Investment Partners and a pool of current stakeholders.

The deal, which was announced Monday, provides the corporate a $12.7 billion enterprise worth.

Genuine Manufacturers’ portfolio firms embrace attire retailers Eternally 21 and Aeropostale, division retailer chain Barneys New York, males’s go well with maker Brooks Brothers and Sports activities Illustrated journal. Early subsequent yr, its deal to purchase sneaker maker Reebok is expected to close, including one other model to its holdings.

The corporate had filed for an IPO in early July. However Genuine Manufacturers Chief Government Jamie Salter mentioned it’s going to now goal an IPO date in 2023 or 2024. He mentioned he has signed on to be CEO for 5 extra years.

“The IPO local weather is ridiculous,” Salter mentioned in a cellphone interview. “I feel we’d have gotten a large valuation … possibly much more than what we offered the enterprise for. However guess what? I might slightly be personal.”

A wave of retail firms entered the general public market in latest months, from eyeglasses maker Warby Parker and trend rental platform Rent the Runway to eco-friendly shoe model Allbirds and e-commerce trend web site Lulu’s. Traders have favored names which have a robust footing on the web, permitting some to fetch valuations as if they were high-growth tech companies.

CNBC had reported that Genuine Manufacturers was looking for a valuation of about $10 billion in its public debut.

The transaction with CVC and HPS is predicted to shut in December, at which level the PE agency and hedge fund will every retain a seat on Genuine Manufacturers’ board of administrators.

“We plan to work carefully with the ABG workforce to execute on their strategic priorities, significantly round worldwide enlargement,” mentioned Chris Baldwin, a managing associate at CVC.

BlackRock will maintain its place as Genuine Manufacturers’ largest shareholder, which it has held since 2019, the corporate mentioned. Current traders together with U.S. mall proprietor Simon Property Group, Basic Atlantic, Leonard Inexperienced & Companions, Brookfield and basketball star Shaquille O’Neal will maintain on to their fairness positions.

When it filed to go public, Genuine Manufacturers reported that its web earnings in 2020 jumped to $211 million from $72.5 million a yr earlier, whereas its income rose about 2% to $489 million.

“Now we have the identical playbook at this time as we had yesterday,” mentioned Salter. “You may hear about extra acquisitions by the tip of this yr.”

CVC not too long ago struck a deal to buy Unilever’s tea business. A few of the agency’s different portfolio firms embrace streetwear model A Bathing Ape and pet items chain Petco, based on its web site. HPS spun out of J.P. Morgan Asset Administration in 2016.

Correction: This text has been up to date to mirror that the deal values the corporate at $12.7 billion and to appropriate the spelling of Chris Baldwin’s identify.