

#Adele oceans apart serial
The brain trust behind Oceans Apart includes, among others, serial entrepreneur Pascal Zuta. A source of inspiration may have been Canadian brand Lululemon who started off with yoga leggings and grew to a 55B-dollar company that offers much more than just leggings. The products are primarily made with synthetic fibers, until recently were marketed as being “vegan and sustainable” and are only available through the online shop, i.e. The brand sells “non-competitive activewear” for women: stylish leggings, sport tops, shorts and sweatshirts for yoga, a casual workout or chilling out on the couch. DTC after DTC after DTCĪfter taking a look ourselves, we had a bit more luck-at least as far as what Oceans Apart does. I couldn’t even tell you what they do.” When we asked around the founder and VC scene for details and insights on Oceans Apart and the deal with Altor, that’s what we heard-if we heard anything at all. “I heard once that they make about EUR 50M.” “They are the exception in the DTC sector.” “They should be very profitable, but I don’t know exactly how.

OMR snooped around the industry to shed some light on the deal, and then broke down the marketing playbook of the brand and then laid out how the people behind Oceans Apart were able to generate a massive amount of growth in such a short amount of time. Although neither side provided specifics, there are indications that the deal happened based on a nine-figure valuation.

Rise Up Fashion is the company behind womens’ fitness fashion brand Oceans Apart. Thanks to all who have sent links to articles - including Frank Webb, Cláudio Pedrosa, Kuba Ambrozewski, Austin McLean, Stefan Sahlander, Dutch Star Helder, Jean Hupperetz, John Stuart, Donat Tahiraj and all at the Go-Betweens record labels and management.When Swedish private equity firm Altor announced two weeks ago that they would acquire a majority holding of Rise Up Fashion GmbH, it was paid little mind by the business and startup press-let alone the general press. Tarantula fanzine interview with Grant McLennan (April 2005)īirmingham Evening Herald (29th April 2005) The Morning Star (20th April 2005) scan of article Scans of the printed versions of all the UK reviews can be found on the Lomax Records website The album will be released on vinyl by Tuition on 26th April 2005 and by Yep Roc in May 2005. USA & Canada: Yep Roc Records (3rd May 2005) Rest of Europe: Tuition (26th April 2005)Īustralia & New Zealand: EMI Australia (1st May 2005) UK & Ireland: Lomax Records (25th April 2005) The album is released on the following labels: Produced and mixed by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy at Good Luck Studios, LondonĮxcept Boundary Rider recorded by Neil Coombe at The White Room Recording Studio, Brisbane Glenn Thompson: drums, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals Robert Forster: vocals, guitars, piano, organĪdele Pickvance: bass, keyboards, backing vocals The UK version of the album includes the video for Here Comes A City on the bonus disc. * not included on the German pressing of the album. The first pressing of the album features a bonus disc containing the following live tracks, recorded live at the Barbican in London on 27th June 2004:
