All Mike Ashley articles – Page 4
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Ashley offers to underwrite Debenhams equity issue
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley proposed to underwrite a £150m equity raise for existing Debenhams shareholders but has also called for members of the department store group’s board to take a lie detector test.
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Opinion
Opinion: Debenhams vs Mike Ashley – who to back?
It is beyond belief that Debenhams has constantly slammed the door shut on Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley’s attempts to help it through its difficulties.
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Mike Ashley rules out buying Arcadia ‘even for £1’
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashely has launched an attack on Sir Philip Green, insisting he wouldn’t buy his Arcadia retail empire even “for a pound”.
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Watch: Is Mike Ashley Debenhams' only hope?
Mike Ashley is attempting to seize control of Debenhams. The team cuts through the noise to ask whether he represents its best chance of success.
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Opinion
Opinion: Ashley won’t stop rattling Debenhams’ cage
Mike Ashley’s machinations continue with the mogul’s attempt to oust Debenhams’ board and appoint himself as chief executive.
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Mike Ashley seeks to cull Debenhams board
Sports Direct has mounted a fresh attack on Debenhams’ board with a bid to oust all remaining directors bar one and appoint Mike Ashley as an executive director.
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Mike Ashley holding company's profits crash
Profits have plummeted at retail tycoon Mike Ashley’s investment vehicle Mash Holdings, more than halving in the year to April 2017.
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Opinion: Ashley’s Patisserie Valerie U-turn is part of an odd recipe
Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley’s acquisitive streak took a turn to the even more bizarre last week.
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Mike Ashley's hold on UK high street revealed
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley’s ever-expanding portfolio of businesses captured 3.2% of all UK non-food retail spend in 2018, new research has shown.
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Mike Ashley battles ScS in race to snap up Sofa.com
Retail tycoon Mike Ashley has emerged as a rival to ScS in the battle for control of furniture retailer Sofa.com.
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Mike Ashley mulling Patisserie Valerie deal
Mike Ashley is reportedly considering making a bid for Patisserie Valerie, a move which would give him even greater control of the high street.
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Mike Ashley ‘demands rent holiday’ over possible HMV deal
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashely is reportedly seeking a “six-month rent holiday” from HMV landlords if he were to save the music retailer.
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Sports Direct's Mike Ashley in rescue bid for HMV
Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley has emerged as one of the suitors bidding to rescue HMV from administration.
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Analysis
Opinion: Debenhams' future is in Mike Ashley's hands
Mike Ashley’s spectacularly engineered coup at Debenhams’ AGM sent shockwaves through the industry at the tail end of Super Thursday.
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TK Maxx owner sues Mike Ashley's Sports Direct
TK Maxx owner TJX is suing Sports Direct amid claims that Mike Ashley’s business breached trademarks through the launch of its Brand Max fascia.
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Retail cartoon: Mike Ashley's Christmas spectacular
Patrick Blower’s take on Mike Ashley setting the record straight at his swaggering appearance in Westminster.
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Analysis
Analysis: What is Mike Ashley's master plan?
Hark back to June 2016 and Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley was hauled before a parliamentary hearing about the working conditions at the retailer’s Shirebrook warehouse.
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Mike Ashley: High streets in 'downward death spiral'
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has urged MPs to “take the bull by the horns” to save British high streets from “a downward death spiral”.
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Agenda: Mike Ashley, McColl’s, Joules and Ted Baker
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with Mike Ashley’s meeting with MPs and updates from McColl’s, Joules and Ted Baker on the agenda.
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Opinion
Opinion: Don’t rely on Ashley to 'save' the high street
Get the popcorn ready for next Monday, when retail tycoon Mike Ashley will meet MPs to set out his thoughts – no doubt robustly – on how to rescue the troubled high street.