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Aka Brands Files for IPO

An Aka Brands-owned Princess Polly campaign. Aka Brands.

Joan Kennedy

24 August 2021

The holding company, which owns digitally-savvy labels like fast fashion favourite Princess Polly, registered on Tuesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, intending to list on the New York Stock Exchange. BofA Securities, Credit Suisse and Jeffries will lead management of the offering. The brand is backed by Summit Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, and joins the wave of e-commerce companies who have filed for IPOs this year after seeing sales surge during the pandemic.

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Joan Kennedy

Joan Kennedy is Editorial Associate at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers beauty and marketing.

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