All Sports Direct articles – Page 11
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News
Sports Direct offers Debenhams £150m loan lifeline
Sports Direct has offered to bail out Debenhams with a £150m loan in exchange for additional equity in the business.
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News
Sports Direct reports 'misleading' Debenhams to FCA
Sports Direct has reported Debenhams to the FCA for the way in which it has communicated the health of its finances to the market.
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News
Debenhams in ‘advanced negotiations’ over £150m funding
Debenhams has said it is in “advanced negotiations” with existing lenders about obtaining an additional £150m worth of funding.
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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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News
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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News
Findel rejects Sports Direct takeover bid
Findel has rejected the £139m takeover bid that Sports Direct lodged earlier today.
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News
Sports Direct lodges £139m bid for Findel
Sports Direct has made a takeover bid for online retailer Findel, valuing the business at just under £140m.
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News
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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News
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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News
Ashley walks away from Patisserie Valerie bid
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has withdrawn from the bidding for Patisserie Valerie, just two days after revealing he had made an offer for the troubled café chain.
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News
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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News
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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News
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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News
House of Fraser makes U-turn over Intu stores
Sports Direct has made a U-turn over the future of its House of Fraser stores within Intu shopping centres.
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Cartoon
Retail cartoon: HMV gets a new master?
Patrick Blower’s take on reports that HMV is the latest struggling retailer on Mike Ashley’s shopping list.
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News
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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News
Agenda: Retailers update on Christmas trading
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days with festive figures from M&S, Tesco, John Lewis, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons all on the agenda.
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Analysis
Analysis: Retail's biggest hires, fires and feuds in 2018
There have been many entrances and exits in the retail sector in the past year. Here is a snapshot of 2018’s most important hires and fires.
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Analysis
Analysis: Seven of the best retail moments of 2018
’Tis the season to be jolly, and Retail Week is celebrating by unwrapping the most light-hearted and affirming retail moments of 2018.