All Jack Wills articles
Jack Wills is a fashion and lifestyle brand selling premium clothing and accessories aimed at young men and women. The business operates stores across five territories, with the majority in the UK, and has an online site. It was founded in Salcombe, Devon, in 1999, named after one of the founders’ grandparents. In 2019, Jack Wills was purchased by Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct (now Frasers Group) in a pre-pack administration deal for £12.8m. After the deal, a number of underperforming UK stores were closed.
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NewsHome and gifting retailer Kenji adds former Clintons and Jack Wills bosses to leadership team
Home, stationery and gifting retailer Kenji has appointed former Clintons and Jack Wills bosses to its senior leadership team as it looks to expand its retail footprint in the UK.
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NewsFrasers Group unveils loyalty scheme across all brands
Frasers Group chief executive Michael Murray has said the retailer is set to unveil a new membership scheme and flexible payments solution, which he described as the retailer’s version of Amazon Prime.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Frasers is plotting a profitable path through cost-of-living crunch
Frasers Group boss Michael Murray explains how it will maintain momentum to navigate its way through the cost-of-living crisis, inflation, supply chain challenges and battered consumer confidence
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NewsFrasers posts surge in profits and increases earnings guidance
Frasers Group has recorded a spike in full-year profits and upped its earnings guidance for its current financial year.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Jack Wills (Overview)
Jack Wills is a British fashion and lifestyle brand acquired by Frasers Group in 2019. It forms part of the acquisitive group’s newly formed UK Premium Lifestyle segment alongside other fascias such as Flannels, Frasers and Cruise.
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NewsFrasers Group blames profit slump on Brexit and coronavirus
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group reported a slump in profits that it blamed on a prolonged period of Brexit uncertainty followed immediately by the coronavirus crisis.
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NewsFrasers Group accused of paying warehouse staff below minimum wage
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has again been accused of paying warehouse workers below minimum wage for the second time in five years.
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NewsMike Ashley’s Frasers Group refuses to pay rents
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has told landlords it will not pay rents until it is “fully able to freely trade as a business” again.
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NewsMike Ashley praises staff as Frasers Group readies to ‘potentially’ reopen stores
Frasers Group, formerly known as Sports Direct International, has said that it will pay 100% of salaries for the majority of its employees in May.
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NewsFrasers Group set to close six Jack Wills stores
Struggling fashion brand Jack Wills, owned by Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, is set to shutter more stores.
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NewsSports Direct profits rise as it shrugs off Belgian tax bill
Sports Direct has posted a jump in half-year profits and insisted the shock tax bill it received from Belgian authorities in the summer “will not lead to material liabilities”.
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Future LeadersBe Inspired: Lessons in resilience
In the unpredictable world of retail, chief executives and Be Inspired ambassadors Liz Evans, Suzanne Harlow and Jill Ross explain why resilience is the best tool in your belt.
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NewsMike Ashley sacks Jack Wills boss Suzanne Harlow
Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley has sacked Jack Wills boss Suzanne Harlow, just weeks after buying the retailer out of administration.
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NewsSports Direct closes eight Jack Wills stores with more at risk
Sports Direct has shuttered eight Jack Wills stores after acquiring the preppy brand earlier this month.
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OpinionPeter Williams: Sports Direct and Boohoo give me retail déjà vu
The trouble with getting old, like me, is that you see history repeating itself.
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CartoonRetail cartoon: Jack Wills gets a Mike Ashley makeover
Patrick Blower’s take on Sports Direct buying Jack Wills out of administration.
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NewsSports Direct exec Murray: We’re not in crisis
Sports Direct executive Michael Murray has insisted the group is “definitely not a business in crisis” despite increasing doubts over its strategy.
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NewsSports Direct buys Jack Wills out of administration
Struggling fashion retailer Jack Wills has been bought out of administration by Sports Direct, following a tussle between Mike Ashley and fellow retail tycoon Philip Day’s Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group.
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NewsDay in late bid to avoid Jack Wills administration
Edinburgh Woollen Mill owner Philip Day is reportedly trying to keep Jack Wills out of administration as he seeks to pip Mike Ashley to a deal for the struggling retailer.
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NewsJack Wills sale nears as Ashley and Day circle
Jack Wills is on the verge of being snapped up by either Mike Ashley or Philip Day, as the two tycoons do battle for the beleaguered business.
