Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct is the UK’s largest sports goods retailer, operating around 715 stores worldwide with more than 500 in the UK. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Sports Direct and the sports and leisure sector.
Australian retail group Accent has rejected the takeover bid from Frasers Group, branding the offer as “materially inadequate”.
Frasers Group has offered A$316m (£166m) for the remaining available shares of Accent Group, operators of brands including Hype and Platypus.
Sports Direct is providing an on-demand, rapid delivery service of FIFA World Cup 2026 merchandise for Londoners ahead of the football tournament.
Frasers Group has opened the doors of its first ever Nordic store, with a new flagship in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
Mike Ashley, has admitted to arranging covert footage of his rival Peter Cowgill that ultimately forced the JD Sports chairman out of the company, and Cowgill has now hit back.
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