The Carlyle Group acquired Golden Goose, an Italy-based luxury lifestyle shoe manufacturer. Financial terms were not disclosed. Marco De Benedetti, Managing Director and Co-Head, Carlyle Europe Partners, said: “We admire Golden Goose’s stylistic unique brand identity, effective business model and undisputed capacity to innovate and create a new category of ‘luxury fashion sneakers’. We look forward to supporting Golden Goose Deluxe Brand with our strategic industry knowledge and through investments to build the potential for the brand, especially in United States and Asia, and predominantly though an acceleration of its worldwide retail and online presence.”