PBG

Clothing, footwear and brands management company, Pacific Brands (ASX:PBG) have announced their first half results to Australian stockmarket traders and investors.

• Pacific Brands had a $38.9 million profit in the six months to December. The company made a $362.4 million loss for the previous corresponding period.

Wholesaler, clothing and homewares retailer, Pacific Brands Limited (ASX:PBG) have presented a preliminary final report to the market while transitioning a new CEO to head the company.

• Current CEO Sue Morphet will resign next month and will be replaced by former Foster's head John Pollaers, scheduled to take over the helm on September 3.
• Pacific Brands reports a staggering loss of $450.7 million, much worse than the previous year's $131.9m loss.

Shares of clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands ( PBG) jumped to as much as 11 cents or 20 per cent to 67 cents in early trade after the company confirmed that it has received an unsolicited approach from US private quity giant KKR to buy the company.

"The board of Pacific Brands, together with its advisers Flagstaff Partners and Minter Ellison, is considering the approach and preliminary discussions are being held with KKR," said Pacific Brands.

There are no floats but there are a couple of ex-dividends scheduled for today and there are quite a number of companies which are holding their Annual General Meeting on October 25, 2011.

Annual General Meetings

There is only one company scheduled to float, but the rest of the board is filled with 6 that will have their extraordinary general meeting, and 17 stocks that will go on ex-dividend.

Dividends

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