All City & finance articles – Page 564
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Sports Direct invites City for peace talks
Sports Direct has offered an olive branch to the City – the first sign that the retailer is willing to play ball as a public company.
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Otto begins review that could lead to UK sell-off
Otto UK is conducting a wide-ranging strategic review of its UK operation, which could result in its German parent selling off the UK home shopping group.
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WHSmith to return £90m to shareholders
WHSmith reported a 2 per cent fall in like-for-like sales over the festive period and is to return 90 million to shareholders.
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Woolworths agrees £385 million refinancing
Woolworths has agreed a refinancing package, with new four-year loan facilities totalling 385 million.
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Kesa share buy-back to follow BUT sale
Electricals group Kesa expects to complete the €550 million ( 409 million) sale of French furniture chain BUT next month and will return cash to investors via a share buy-back programme.
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JJB gives green light for Nike’s Umbro deal
JJB Sports has backed sports brand Nike’s proposed acquisition of England football shirt manufacturer Umbro.
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Alliance Boots seals China partnership
Alliance Boots has completed the formation of its joint-venture company in China, Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corporation (GP Corp), for approximately 41 million.
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Sir Tom Hunter sells D2
Sir Tom Hunter has sold his clothing and footwear chain D2 in a multimillion-pound management buy-out in an effort to 'declutter' West Coast Capital's retail operation.
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Littlewoods moves on Empire Stores
Littlewoods has announced that it intends to buy Empire Stores' debtor book after it was reported that its owner Redcats was closing the business.
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Shoe Zone poised to swoop on Stead & Simpson
Footwear chain Shoe Zone is understood to have bought Stead & Simpson in a deal that is likely to be finalised today.
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Emergency rate cut in US helps store groups outperform at last
The US Federal Reserve’s emergency rate cut – the biggest in 25 years – helped markets rise mid-week and gave store groups a lift.
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Kinnaird plots rescue for top Dolcis stores
Retail entrepreneur John Kinnaird will next week approach landlords to renegotiate leases on the top-performing Dolcis stores in an effort to salvage something from the chain that went into administration this week.
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Opinion
Bolland’s world of opportunity
When future retail historians write the history of Morrisons, the first quarter of 2008 will figure large. March will be the end of an era, when Sir Ken Morrison steps down as chairman. And what better present could he leave with than the grocer having turned the corner as spectacularly ...
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M&S eyes Somerfield
Marks & Spencer is understood to have expressed an interest in acquiring some Somerfield shops.
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NewsTJ Hughes puts paid to plunging profits with a positive Christmas
Discount department store group TJ Hughes has delivered a substantial turnaround from a profit slump of almost 100 per cent in the year to January 2007.
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Musgrave completes store divestment programme
Food group Musgrave has completed the sale of its company-owned UK stores to independent retailers.
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King hints at interest rate cut
Bank of England governor Mervyn King has hinted that interest rates may be cut next month.
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Asda's interest in Somerfield hots up
Asda is thought to have engaged investment bank Lazard to advise it on a potential 2.5 billion bid for Somerfield, according to The Times .
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Kinnaird in talks to buy Envy
Retail entrepreneur John Kinnaird is understood to be in talks with fashion group Alexon to buy its struggling menswear chain Envy.
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AnalysisThe end of the affair?
The City has fallen out of love with retail, as share prices tumble on the back of disappointing Christmas trading. George MacDonald asks whether it is a trial separation or a case for divorce