All Sports Direct articles – Page 61

  • News

    Bolton’s Victoria Plaza scheme gains four more

    2008-05-08T17:26:08Z

    Bolton’s Victoria Plaza development has secured four additional tenants.

  • News

    Sports Direct trading tough

    2008-04-24T08:38:02Z

    Sports Direct has revealed that trading has remained challenging since it updated the City on March 13 this year.

  • News

    Sport Direct snaps up stores from rival JJB

    2008-03-27T11:01:27Z

    Sports Direct is understood to have secured a package of stores from rival JJB Sports.

  • News

    Retail takes body blow as stocks plunge after Bear Stearns crisis

    2008-03-19T12:17:31Z

    The whole market slumped as US investment bank Bear Stearns became the latest credit crunch victim and retailers were again hit hard as brokers fretted about the outlook for the consumer economy.

  • News

    Sports Direct to hit market expectations

    2008-03-13T09:47:22Z

    Sports Direct has reported in its interims that it is set to meet market consensus EBITDA in its full year, but has not provided detailed current trading figures.

  • News

    Moss Bros shares spike as offer from Baugur fuels investor fight

    2008-03-05T12:40:00Z

    Menswear retailer Moss Bros was the week’s biggest riser as a bad-tempered battle for control raged. Members of the founding families, the board and associates of potential buyer Baugur all laid into each other, which can hardly be helping store performance.

  • News

    Competition probe and Asda success help quoted grocers

    2008-02-21T10:59:20Z

    Food retailers staged a comeback after they emerged largely unscathed from the Competition Commission’s investigation into the grocery market. Good fourth-quarter figures from Asda helped, confirming that food retailers as a group have been doing well.

  • News

    Sports Direct: The City View

    2008-02-07T11:18:15Z

    Sports Direct moved up the City’s retail league after striking a deal with Chinese retailer ITAT.

  • News

    Sports Direct strikes deal to enter China

    2008-02-05T08:37:56Z

    Sports Direct International has struck a deal with apparel retailer ITAT Group in China to supply some of its portfolio of brands to ITAT’s larger stores.

  • News

    Sports Direct invites City for peace talks

    2008-01-31T14:52:40Z

    Sports Direct has offered an olive branch to the City – the first sign that the retailer is willing to play ball as a public company.

  • News

    Sports Direct takes stake in Amer

    2008-01-23T09:00:18Z

    Sports Direct has bought a 4.96 per cent stake in multi-branded sports equipment and apparel manufacturer Amer Sports Corporation.

  • News

    Sports Direct warns of tough year ahead

    2008-01-21T08:46:00Z

    Sports Direct has warned that it expects the UK retail sector to become more challenging over the next six months, but it expects to exceed profit expectations for the full year.

  • News

    Ashley ups stake in JD Sports

    2008-01-11T14:35:34Z

    Mike Ashley, the founder and controlling shareholder of Sports Direct, has upped his stake in JD Sports to more than 11 per cent.

  • Dolcis
    Analysis

    On the back foot

    2008-01-10T11:30:00Z

    2007 was another tough year for specialist shoe retailers and more recent news of floundering footwear players has done little to assuage fears for the new year. But, as Jennifer Creevy discovers, there is still a place for those with the right offer

  • Analysis

    February

    2007-12-20T15:09:37Z

    Like-for-like sales rose 3.3 per cent, compared with 0.6 per cent the previous year. Food and drink sales remained strong, but clothing and footwear sales were largely flat. Total sales increased 5.6 per cent

  • Opinion

    Ashley has yet to redeem himself

    2007-12-20T11:46:16Z

    Analysts, exasperated by his flouting of corporate governance guidelines, and journalists, expecting another head-on collision with the truculent tycoon at the retailer’s EGM, were pleasantly surprised.

  • News

    Retailers’ woes deepen as new year gloom tarnishes prospects

    2007-12-20T10:49:22Z

    Analysts took their red pencils to the sector, as uncertainty about next year’s outlook continued to undermine sentiment.

  • Opinion

    Ashley farce is great viewing

    2007-12-20T10:37:52Z

    Following Sports Direct is like watching one of those 1970s air disaster movies that always form part of the Christmas TV schedules.

  • News

    Sports Direct profits collapse

    2007-12-19T09:21:31Z

    Pre-tax profits at Sports Direct slumped 35.2 per cent to 52 million in the first half.

  • News

    Sports Direct deputy chairman candidate 'pulls out'

    2007-12-18T08:35:05Z

    Sports Direct is understood to have been dealt a further blow as the candidate expected to take over as deputy chairman of the sports retailer is believed to have rejected the job.