MONTREAL — Gildan Activewear Inc. says it is entertaining offers for the company business after seeing interest from at least one potential buyer.
The embattled Montreal-based clothing manufacturer says the company received a non-binding expression of interest from a potential purchaser that it did not name.
Spokesman Simon Beauchemin says the company's board formed a special committee of independent directors to consider the proposal and determined it was in Gildan's best interests to contact other potential bidders and try to maximize the value of a possible sale.
He says several parties the committee reached out to have expressed an interest in a potential friendly transaction with Gildan, though a sale won't necessarily result.
The development comes as Gildan has been embroiled in a fight over who should lead the firm since it announced late last year that co-founder and then-chief executive Glenn Chamandy would be replaced as CEO by Vince Tyra.
While Gildan's executives claimed Chamandy had no credible long-term strategy and had lost the board's trust, a group of the company's shareholders insist he was the superior leader and have called for his return.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2024.
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