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    Matches placed into administration

    2024-03-11T10:14:00Z

    Frasers Group said that the loss-making online luxury clothing and accessories platform Matches has gone into administration. Since Frasers bought Matches in December 2023 “the business has consistently missed its business plan targets and, notwithstanding support from the group, has continued to make material losses. Whilst Matches’ management team has ...

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    The stocks of footwear companies inched up in Q4

    2024-01-29T09:59:00Z

    The prices of stocks monitored by Shoe Intelligence grew by 4 percent on average in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared with the previous three months, but trading remained volatile, with significant fluctuations among the companies of the cohort. The quarter was marked by the initial public offering (IPO) of ...

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    Frasers hikes its stake in Asos to nearly 26%

    2024-01-19T12:35:00Z

    Frasers Group has increased its stake in the British online fashion retailer Asos to 25.96 percent through a series of transactions in January, according to filings with the London Stock Exchange. At the end of December, the stake stood at 17.88 percent. Based on the latest filing on Jan.18, 17.11 ...

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    Frasers Group hikes stake in Boohoo to 21.49% vs 17.22%

    2024-01-18T11:43:00Z

    Frasers Group has increased its stake in the online fashion retailer Boohoo to 21.49 percent from 17.22 percent, according to a stock exchange filing. The British retailer has been building up a stake in Boohoo over the past months. It previously said that it saw “potential synergies and an opportunity ...

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    Frasers increases its stake in Boohoo to over 17%

    2023-12-04T12:56:00Z

    Frasers Group has increased its stake in the online fashion retailer Boohoo to 17.22 percent from 16.50 percent, according to a stock exchange filing. The British retailer has been gradually building up a stake in Boohoo over the past months. It previously said that it saw “potential synergies and an ...

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    Frasers hikes its stake in Asos

    2023-11-07T16:46:00Z

    Frasers Group has increased its stake in the British online fashion retailer Asos to 19.52 percent from 19.00 percent, according to a filing with the London Stock Exchange. Based on the filing, 12.74 percent of the voting rights are held through shares and the remaining 6.78 percent through financial instruments, ...

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    Frasers sells the Missguided brand to Shein

    2023-10-30T13:50:00Z

    The British retailer Frasers Group has sold the intellectual property (IP) of the Missguided fashion brand to the online fast fashion retailer Shein. Under the terms of the transaction, Shein will acquire the IP and trademarks of Missguided, while Frasers will retain Missguided’s real estate and employees which have now ...

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    Frasers continues to hike its stake in Boohoo

    2023-10-25T12:55:00Z

    Frasers Group has increased its stake in the online fashion retailer Boohoo to 16.50 percent from 15.12 percent, according to a stock exchange filing. The British retailer has been gradually building up a stake in Boohoo over the past months. It previously said that it saw “potential synergies and an ...

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    Frasers to acquire SportScheck in Germany

    2023-10-17T08:37:00Z

    The British retailer Frasers Group has entered into a binding agreement with Signa Retail Department Store Holding GmbH to acquire SportScheck, one of the leading sports retailers in Germany. Completion of the transaction will be subject to regularory clearance. Frasers expects the transaction to close in the first quarter of ...

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    Frasers increases its stake in Boohoo again

    2023-10-16T07:35:00Z

    Frasers Group has increased its stake in the online fashion retailer Boohoo to 13.44% from 10.42%, according to a stock exchange filing. The British retailing group has been building up a stake in Boohoo. It previously said that it saw “potential synergies and an opportunity to strengthen our own brand ...

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    Mike Ashley cuts his stake in Hugo Boss

    2023-09-20T08:12:00Z

    Mike Ashley, the majority owner of the British retailer Frasers Group, has cut his stake in Hugo Boss to 19.65 percent from a previous 24.39 percent, according to a regulatory filing from the German fashion house. The figure includes financial instruments owned by Frasers. Ashley now owns 1.63 percent in ...

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    ​Frasers increases its stakes in Boohoo and Asos

    2023-09-01T08:50:00Z

    Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has again increased its stake in Boohoo, just days after doing the same at Asos, another British fast fashion e-tailer. In two days, Frasers, the owner of Flannels and Sports Direct, among others, lifted its stake in Boohoo to 10.42 percent from 7.8 percent, meaning it ...

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    The stocks of footwear companies slip led by British firms

    2023-07-05T09:14:00Z

    The prices of stocks monitored by Shoe Intelligence fell by 7 percent in the second quarter of 2023 compared with the previous three months, when the cohort gained about 5 percent. Shares were driven lower by British constituents of the panel. Some companies were hit by worrisome financial situations, but ...

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    Frasers buys a stake in Boohoo

    2023-06-21T06:48:00Z

    Regulatory filings showed that Frasers Group bought 63.5 million Boohoo shares, or 5 percent of the capital of the U.K. online fashion retailer. It also bought an 8.9 percent stake in Currys, a British retailer of domestic appliances and electronics. “We see potential synergies and an opportunity to strengthen ...

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    Asos suppliers reportedly cutting ties over credit insurance worries

    2023-06-08T13:58:00Z

    Suppliers to Asos are reportedly cutting ties with the fast fashion retailer over credit insurance concerns. They are responding to insurers reducing or withdrawing trade credit insurance following a slide in earnings at the British online fashion retailer. Allianz Trade is understood to have withdrawn cover entirely, while Atradius has ...

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    Frasers Group buys Australia’s Sneakerboy out of administration

    2022-10-12T14:10:00Z

    The British retail chain Frasers Group has bought the collapsed Australian luxury footwear and streetwear retailer Sneakerboy for an undisclosed sum, according to media reports. Frasers, which owns the Sports Direct chain and a wide portfolio of brands, will keep Sneakerboy’s staff and run the business but not take on ...

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    Mike Ashley to quit Frasers Group’s board

    2022-09-20T10:07:00Z

    Mike Ashley, the founder of Frasers Group, will not be standing for re-election as a director at the forthcoming annual general meeting (AGM) of the British retailer. He will therefore step down from the board upon the conclusion of the AGM on Oct. 19. Ashley will continue to be available ...

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    Frasers buys stake in MySale

    2022-07-02T17:27:00Z

    Frasers Group, the owner of Sports Direct, has acquired a 28.7 percent stake in MySale, an off-price fashion marketplace headquartered in Sydney. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Frasers explained that the move will allow end-of-line group products to be cleared via an established clearance channel. ...

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    Frasers hikes stake in Hugo Boss

    2022-06-22T15:59:00Z

    Frasers Group, the parent company of Sports Direct, has increased its investment in Hugo Boss. The company now has 3,425,000 shares of common stock in the German fashion group, representing 4.9 percent of its total share capital. It also holds 18,289,000 shares via the sale of put options, representing 26.0 ...

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    Frasers acquires troubled online retailer Studio Retail

    2022-02-27T13:17:00Z

    Frasers Group, the parent company of Sports Direct, announced today it has acquired Studio Retail Limited and certain other assets of Studio Retail Group plc. The British online retailer Studio Retail Group had filed for administration earlier this month for itself and its wholly-owned subsidiary Studio Retail Limited after failing ...