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Toms sells a 50% share of the company to Bain Capital

By Katie Evans

Managing Editor, International Research

Toms founder, Blake Mycoskie, will own the other half of the retailer, which gives a pair of shoes to a needy child for each pair purchased.

shoes toms Tom Shoes, a retailer that touts its charitable twist of giving one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased, has sold half of the company to private equity firm Bain Capital LLC.

Cheap Toms Shoes Sale From Our Outlet Store With Discount Financial terms were not disclosed. Toms founder, Blake Mycoskie, will own the other half of the retailer, No. 233 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide . Toms web sales totaled $90 million in 2013, according to Internet Retailer estimates, up 12.5% from an estimated $80 million a year earlier.

2014 New style toms shoes Mycoskie plans to use at least half of his profits from the transaction to establish a fund that identifies and supports social entrepreneurship and other causes. Bain says it will match Mycoskie’s investment in the fund.

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Discount Toms Shoes Outlet Sale “This partnership will enable Toms to grow faster and give to more people in more ways than we could otherwise,” Mycoskie says. “While I believe Toms has done a lot of good up to this point, there is so much more we can and should be doing.”

TOMS Official Outlet Store Founded in 2006, Tom has since expanded into selling items besides shoes. Toms now sells eyeglasses, giving a pair to the needy for each set of frames bought, and Toms Roasting Co. launched this year provides clean water to those without it for every bag of coffee beans bought.

toms shoes outlet online Toms says since its launch it has given more than 25 million new pairs of shoes to children in need and glasses to more than 250,000 people.

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