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Sports Direct opens an upgraded flagship store in London
As part of the chain’s “elevation strategy,” Sports Direct is reopening its flagship store on London’s Oxford Street, which it inaugurated in 2014, after a £10 million (€11.6m-$13.8m) refurbishment carried out in the last six months during the recent Covid-related retail lockdowns. Two other flagship stores are due to ...
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JD’s takeover of Footasylum is blocked
After a more in-depth review of JD Sports Fashion ’s acquisition last year of the Footasylum chain in the U.K., Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ) announced on May 6 its decision to block it, arguing that it would lead to a “substantial lessening of competition nationally,” ...
