All New Look articles – Page 31
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NewsNew Look board meets as doubts rise over IPO
Fashion retailer new Look’s board will decide today whether to proceed with an IPO as fears rise that a flotation may be impossible.
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AnalysisCarl McPhail: preparing to lead New Look’s IPO
With a potential IPO in the offing the New Look chief executive has been thrust into the public glare. Does he have the pedigree to lead the float, asks Amy Shields
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AnalysisBusiness sales: retail makeover tactics
After a year when retailers often got the cold shoulder, both private equity and IPO activity in the sector is picking up. Joanna Perry examines the makeover tactics retailers use to encourage a sale
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OpinionAxed Matalan sale is not the closing chapter for retail deals
The failed sale of Matalan yesterday came as little surprise to many.
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NewsNo sales growth expected at New Look's Mim until 2012
Mim, the 300-store French young fashion retailer owned by New Look, is expected to report negative sales until 2012, according to research released as part of the retailer’s imminent float.
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OpinionA lot is riding on New Look
The sour taste left by disappointing retail IPOs of the past and jitters about how retail conditions will shape up this year mean there’s a lot riding on how New Look’s much-anticipated IPO fares.
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NewsPoor January sales drag down retailers
General retailers were hit in the wake of poor January sales data from the British Retail Consortium and wider market turbulence at the end of last week.
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Analysis
Private equity deals
Pets at Home’s sale to KKR for £955m was the first firm sign that private equity is open for business again. Here, we ask what the deal tells us
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NewsNew Look reveals global ambitions as it lines up float
Fashion giant sets sights on expanding international presence as it aims to raise £650m through IPO
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NewsBurst of retail activity sends shares soaring
Retail sector excitement including boardroom musical chairs and details of the first IPO in years added some excitement to stores’ share prices, which outperformed the market.
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OpinionNew Look will need consistency to float above the rest
After much speculation New Look’s intention to float has now been confirmed and after the deflation of the failed float in 2007 it looks like the fashion group will finally have its day.
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NewsNew Look management in line for bumper pay day
New Look’s management team is set to make millions of pounds from the retailer’s payment in kind (PIK) notes.
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NewsNew Look confirms IPO
New Look has confirmed that it will float on the stock exchange, poised to value the fast fashion retailer at £1.7bn.
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NewsNew Look prepares for March IPO
New Look is preparing for an inital public offering in March that could value the fast fashion retailer at up to £2bn.
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NewsNew Look’s Phil Wrigley to join Majestic Wine
Former New Look chairman Phil Wrigley is set to become chairman of Majestic Wine when its current chairman Simon Burke retires later this year.
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NewsNew Look board meeting to consider IPO
Fashion group New Look’s board will consider this week whether to go ahead with a Stock Exchange listing.
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NewsGreen light for retail IPOs
Grim outlook fails to dampen retailers’ flotation hopes — but will they hit their valuations?
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OpinionSelling up will be no easy task in 2010
Private buyers will be hampered by not being able to take on the levels of borrowing they did before the banking crisis
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AnalysisJohn Gildersleeve: A good fit for New Look
While his fierce reputation may be unjustified, the former Tesco dynamo seems a good fit as chairman of New Look