Gruppo Coin S.p.A.

PROFILE Any of Gruppo Coin's operations will take your coins. The company operates or franchises some 480 stores in Italy that sell apparel, accessories, and home furnishings. Its store banners include Coin and Standa (department stores), Oviesse (discount stores), and Bimbus (children's wear). Its Sirema and Manifatture di Fara subsidiaries make clothes. The company doubled in size with its 1998 purchase of the Standa chain. Coin has a joint venture with French department store operator Pinault-Printemps-Redoute to run Fnac book, record, and electronics stores in Italy. Vittorio Coin founded the company in 1916. It went public in 1999 but is still controlled by the Coin family.  COMPETITION Lidl & Schwarz Stiftung & Co. KG (dossier) La Rinascente S.p.A. (LARCY)		FINANCIAL OVERVIEW Fiscal Year-End: January 2000 Sales (mil.): 1,180.80 1-Yr. Sales Growth: (34.4)%  KEY PEOPLE • Paolo Ricotti     CEO  CONTACT INFO Via Terraglio, 17 30174 Mestre Venezia, Italy Phone: 39-41-239-8000 Fax: 39-41-982-722 Online: Web Site

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