All Sports Direct articles – Page 62
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Moss Bros shares spike as offer from Baugur fuels investor fight
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.
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Competition probe and Asda success help quoted grocers
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.
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Sports Direct: The City View
Sports Direct moved up the City’s retail league after striking a deal with Chinese retailer ITAT.
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Sports Direct strikes deal to enter China
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.
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Sports Direct invites City for peace talks
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.
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Sports Direct takes stake in Amer
Sports Direct has bought a 4.96 per cent stake in multi-branded sports equipment and apparel manufacturer Amer Sports Corporation.
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Sports Direct warns of tough year ahead
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.
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Ashley ups stake in JD Sports
Mike Ashley, the founder and controlling shareholder of Sports Direct, has upped his stake in JD Sports to more than 11 per cent.
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AnalysisOn the back foot
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
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Opinion
Ashley has yet to redeem himself
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.
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Retailers’ woes deepen as new year gloom tarnishes prospects
Analysts took their red pencils to the sector, as uncertainty about next year’s outlook continued to undermine sentiment.
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Opinion
Ashley farce is great viewing
Following Sports Direct is like watching one of those 1970s air disaster movies that always form part of the Christmas TV schedules.
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Sports Direct profits collapse
Pre-tax profits at Sports Direct slumped 35.2 per cent to 52 million in the first half.
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Sports Direct deputy chairman candidate 'pulls out'
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.
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Mike Ashley 'to appoint himself Sports Direct chairman'
Mike Ashley will reportedly announce himself as chairman of Sports Direct this week, doing little to ease the controversy surrounding his retail business.
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Fears for new year take shine off upbeat week for general retailers
General retailers were the week’s beneficiaries as they outperformed their food peers and the FTSE. Lower interest rates were welcomed, but analysts remained downbeat about prospects.
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Sports Direct share price nosedives
Sports Direct shares dipped to less than a third of the price it floated at yesterday after Merrill Lynch issued a damning note on the company.
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Insurers association hits out at Ashley
Mike Ashley has come up against yet more criticism from the City – this time from the Association of British Insurers (ABI), which criticised the way Sport’s Direct has been run since its float.
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Retailers' unease grows as shares continue to slump across the board
Punch-drunk retailers took more blows as both grocers and general merchandisers underperformed.