Equity fund to buy Gene Juarez chain. Washington

“Gene Juarez, founder and namesake of the region’s iconic Gene Juarez Salons & Spas, is known for three decades of risk-taking in the pursuit of high fashion.

Now, the risk-taking will shift to someone else.

Juarez on Monday said he would sell the company, for an undisclosed sum, to Seattle-based investment fund Evergreen Pacific Partners ”” a move that would enable the chain to expand its stores and services, but without its namesake at the helm.”

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