All Mike Ashley articles – Page 7
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News
Ashley enters the fray as Agent Provocateur sale nears
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has emerged as a bidder in the race for struggling upmarket lingerie chain Agent Provocateur.
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Opinion
Opinion: Mike Ashley can never be second-guessed
As Sport Direct’s founder Mike Ashley freely admits, he can’t be “house trained”.
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Video
The Retail Week: Retail 2017, Bunnings and Mike Ashley
The Retail Week team discuss the top stories from the past seven days in the industry, including a first look inside Bunnings’ UK debut.
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News
Mike Ashley claims Odey backing is 'highly significant'
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has welcomed backing from one of the retailer’s key investors and said the support is “highly significant”.
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News
Today in retail: Mike Ashley jumps to Hellawell’s aid
A general meeting earlier today made it clear that Sports Direct chairman Keith Hellawell has done little to restore the faith of the retailer’s shareholders.
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Analysis
Infographic: Alex Baldock on Black Friday and Mike Ashley on his critics
The week in words and numbers, December 2 2016: Infographic: Alex Baldock on Black Friday, Mike Ashley on his critics, and the numbers on Austin Reed’s relaunch.
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Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: Mike Ashley challenges MPs to a debate
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on the Sport Direct boss’s offer to MPs to spar on live TV.
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News
Sports Direct's Ashley challenges MPs to live TV debate
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has invited MPs back to the retailer’s warehouse in Shirebrook to take part in a “live televised” debate.
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News
MP urges Mike Ashley to explain alleged bugging
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has been urged to explain an alleged bid by the company to spy on MPs with a secret camera.
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News
Mike Ashley takes helm of Sports Direct as chief executive resigns
Sports Direct chief executive Dave Forsey has quit and the retailer’s founder Mike Ashley has taken on the role “with immediate effect”.
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News
MP demands Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley cut ties with employment agency
MP Iain Wright has called on Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley to stop using Transline employment agency to recruit staff for Shirebrook.
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Analysis
Analysis: Why maverick Mike Ashley's apologies are no longer enough
Mike Ashley famously said last year he wanted Sports Direct to be as good a retailer as department store chain John Lewis.
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News
Sports Direct shareholders advised not to re-elect Mike Ashley to board
Sports Direct shareholders have been urged to vote against the re-election of founder Mike Ashley to the board by a leading advisory group.
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News
Mike Ashley fails in his bid to become Findel chairman
Home shopping group Findel has decided not to appoint Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley as chairman as it unveiled a 5.3% rise in sales.
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News
MPs to 'hold Ashley's feet to the fire' over working practices
Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley has been condemned by MPs over working practices at the retailer.
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News
Sir Philip Green: I did not block sale of BHS to Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley
Sir Philip Green has written to MPs saying that he did not attempt to block the sale of BHS to Sports Direct’s owner, Mike Ashley.
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News
Mike Ashley launches bid for Findel chairmanship
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley bids to become chairman of home shopping group Findel, months after raising his stake in the business.
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News
Mike Ashley convinced he had struck deal to buy BHS post-collapse
Mike Ashley was under the impression he had struck a deal to acquire BHS after it had gone into administration, it has emerged.
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News
Mike Ashley considers bid for Debenhams' Ireland operations
Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley is reportedly looking at a bid for Debenhams’ Ireland business via Irish department store chain Heatons.
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News
Mike Ashley eyes up to 80 BHS stores in fresh approach
Mike Ashley has made a fresh approach to BHS administrators in a bid to buy up to 80 of the collapsed chain’s stores and the brand name.