All Sports, leisure & outdoors articles – Page 40
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NewsAgenda: Dixons Carphone, Sports Direct and Joules
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with updates from Carpetright, Joules, Dixons Carphone, Sports Direct and Ocado on the agenda.
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NewsPrimark and Sports Direct fined for underpaying staff
Primark and Sports Direct have been fined after the Government found that both retailers had underpaid their staff.
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NewsSports Direct 'front runner' to buy Brixton markets
Sports Direct has emerged as the front runner to snap up Brixton’s covered markets in a £30m swoop.
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NewsShop price deflation ‘coming to an end’, BRC warns
A run of shop price deflation stretching back more than four years is about to come to an end, new figures have warned.
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NewsSports Direct seeks to pay Mike Ashley’s brother £11m
Sports Direct has called a shareholders’ general meeting next month to approve an £11m payment to controversial founder Mike Ashley’s brother, John.
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Analysis
Analysis: What does the Budget mean for retail?
Has Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Budget retailers craved? Or has he left the industry high and dry?
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Budget 2017: Business rates to switch to CPI from April
The Government will base business rates increases on the CPI index rather than RPI two years earlier than planned, it revealed in today’s Budget.
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NewsSports Direct increases credit facility to £907m
Sports Direct has increased its credit facility to more than £900m to help fund founder Mike Ashley’s vision to become ‘the Selfridges of sport’.
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NewsGo Outdoors profits and sales rise as it eyes expansion
Go Outdoors, which was acquired by JD Sports this year, posted a healthy boost in full-year sales bolstered by new stores.
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NewsHalfords profits down despite strong retail performance
Halfords profits dipped at the half-year mark despite a strong performance in its retail services division.
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NewsAgenda: Primark, New Look, M&S and Sainsbury's
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with updates from Primark, New Look, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Halfords on the agenda.
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AnalysisAnalysis: When retailers go from friend to foe
Footasylum’s IPO represents a second sports retail payday for David Wardle and John Makin. The pair had previously founded, built and floated JD Sports before going into competition against it.
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NewsShop prices decrease at slowest rate in four years
Shop prices decreased at their slowest rate in four years during October, despite food price inflation.
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NewsDebenhams shares may prove costly for Sports Direct
Sports Direct acquired shares in department store group Debenhams last week and might have paid more than they are worth.
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NewsFootasylum set for £170m valuation on AIM
Footasylum expects its market capitalisation to be £171.3m when it launches its IPO on AIM next week at the price of £1.64 per share.
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AnalysisBuy, sell or hold? Sports Direct takes stock of shares
Sports Direct has drafted in a head of strategic investments to review the shareholdings the retailer has built up in other businesses.
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NewsNew Sports Direct hire to review strategic stakes
Sports Direct has recruited a head of strategic investments who will review all the retailer’s stakes in other businesses.
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NewsSports Direct gears up for cycling store roll out
Sports Direct has snapped up triathlon specialist brand Tri UK and plans to roll out six new stores next year, including a Nottingham flagship.
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NewsUpdated: Footasylum confirms IPO as former JD boss joins
Footasylum will float on AIM next month as it gears up for store expansion and snaps up ex-JD boss Barry Bown to spearhead its expansion.
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NewsSports Direct axes nearly half of Debenhams concessions
Sports Direct has shuttered four out of nine of its concessions in Debenhams stores, two of which are in the department store’s Oxford Street flagship.