company industry sports footwear apparel headquarters finchley london area served worldwide key people stephen rubin chairman pentland group andrew rubin chairman pentland brands andy long ceo pentland brands website www.pentland.com pentland group plc is a privately held global brand management british company involved in the sports outdoor and fashion markets . based in finchley north london it is owned by stephen rubin and family . it had sales of 973 million in 2007 making it the 42nd largest private company in the united kingdom . history edit the success of pentland group can be traced back to august 1981 when pentland industries acquired 55 % of reebok for us 77 500 . by 1983 84 reebok accounted for 70 % of pentland s turnover . pentland s shares rose from gb 0.55 at the start of 1984 to gb 3 by the end of the year and up to gb 10 in june 1985 while profits rose from gb 1 million in 1983 to gb 12.9 million in 1985 . pentland then listed 60 % of reebok in a flotation valuing the company at us 300 million . 1 stephen rubin joined pentland at the age of 21 working for his father . 2 he later became chairman and chief executive of pentland remaining so until 1998 when he split his role and appointed his son andrew chief executive . 2 pentland was taken private in 1999 to focus on longer term investments . 3 however it appears that city institutions were unhappy with the way rubin was running the company which underperformed the market by 40 % since it floated in 1989 . 2 the group s brand management division pentland brands now comprises a portfolio of brands covering sports outdoor and fashion . it manages owned brands such as speedo canterbury of new zealand berghaus brasher mitre prostar boxfresh kangaroos and red or dead ; and also operates under global licenses the footwear of lacoste and ted baker and kickers in the uk . pentland is also a minority shareholder for other brands including hunter boot ltd heidi klein and butterfly twists . pentland group acquired 45 % of jd sports fashion plc from its founders john wardle and david makin in may 2005 . 4 pentland group is the majority owner of jd sports which has 600 retail outlets in the uk including jd bank scotts size blacks and millets . in 2013 the company reported a 45 % drop in pre tax profits to gb 62.9 m. 5 however pentland group saw total revenues rise 14.2 % to 1.74 bn with the olympics fuelling growth from sportswear brands such as speedo . 6 in 2014 pentland reported total sales growth of 10 % to 1.9 bn and reported pre tax earnings of 85m year to december 2013 . excluding income from its retail investments turnover rose 11 % to 590m with speedo delivering a record performance . 7 in 2015 pentland reported a revenue increase of 14 % to 2.2 bn year to december 2014 . within the pentland brands portfolio speedo achieved record sales for the second year in a row . 8 from 1 january 2015 andy rubin promoted to chairman at pentland brands plc a division of pentland group plc . 9 in february 2016 jd sports fashion appoints andy rubin to its board as a non executive director as the business looks to ramp up its international expansion . 10 in june 2016 pentland group announces a 10 % increase in sales to 2.4 bn year to december 2015 . rugby inspired label canterbury brands had record breaking sales boosted by the rugby world cup . operating profit before tax and exceptional items was up 36 % year on year to 220m . 11 references edit blakey george g. 2010 . a history of the london stock market 1945 2009 . harriman house . isbn 1906659621 . a b c ahmad sameena 4 september 1997 . concern as sportswear boss gives son top job . independent . retrieved 13 december 2013 . tyler richard 16 october 2003 . pentland s private route to best uk workplace . telegraph . retrieved 13 december 2013 . finch julia 12 may 2005 . jd sports founders cash in and quit with 45m . guardian . retrieved 13 december 2013 . digest pentland stuck in the mud . sunday times . 7 july 2013 . retrieved 13 december 2013 . pentland group revenues rise 14.2 % in olympics year . drapersonline.com . retrieved 29 march 2015 . profits hike the sunday times . thesundaytimes.co.uk . retrieved 29 march 2015 . https www.drapersonline.com news pentland boss builds for future growth as profits soar 5076252 . article . 27 june 2015 samantha conti . andy rubin promoted to chairman role at pentland . wwd . retrieved 29 march 2015 . http www.cityam.com 234475 jd sports appoints pentland chairman andy rubin to its board as international expansion beckons . 12 february 2016 https www.drapersonline.com news pentland weathers international challenges as sales rise 7008761 . article retrieved 28 june 2016 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pentland group & oldid 739832467 categories sporting goods manufacturers of the united kingdommanufacturing companies of the united kingdomprivately held companies of the united kingdomhidden categories engvarb from january 2014use dmy dates from january 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 08 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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