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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Billabong International raised.
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Reuters reports Australian online fashion retailer SurfStitch is preparing to float on the Sydney exchange, with a prospectus planned, an unnamed source says — roughly triple what Billabong fetched when it was sold months before.
SurfStitch listed on the ASX after buying Billabong's stake and Swell.com for about $35m and Quiksilver's Surfdome for $45m; its IPO and pre-IPO raising drew several prominent fund managers.
SurfStitch raised $50 million to fund its $23.7 million purchase of Surf Hardware International, pushing its market value past Billabong's. The Sydney-born retailer listed the prior December at $214 million.