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...“I’m from New Orleans, where we don’t need a reason to celebrate,” says the artist Ashley Longshore of her more-is-more philosophy....
...But he declined to specify which of Frasers’ other investments, which range from Evans Cycles to former catalogue retailer Studio Retail, might be offloaded....
...Previous retailers he has acquired include House of Fraser, Jack Wills, Evans Cycles and Game....
...label Hugo Boss. * It’s clearly a theoretical exercise that flouts the rules of accountancy but taken at face value, the portfolio’s size might suggest the core business — which includes brands such as Evans...
...Ashley still owns 72 per cent of the retailer, which started life as a single store in Maidenhead in 1982....
...The company owns Sofa.com and Evans Cycles and stocks gym equipment, and it also sells bulky domestic appliances through Studio Retail....
...Other smart hires included former Top Shop fashion director Maddy Evans, who has transformed the women’s range. But it is not just the senior people who matter....
...Similarly, in her bedroom are three-legged bedside tables by Ashley Hicks on which she’s placed sculptural Noguchi table lamps with spindly metal legs, facing a midcentury mahogany closet with beige panels...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Sensational: A New Story of Our Senses by Ashley Ward (Profile) Wide-ranging look at the science of senses — from the mantis shrimp to the strange link between canine bowel movements...
...Francisco Partners has hired Ashley Evans as a partner focusing on software investments. She was a managing director at Carlyle Group....
...Job moves KKR has appointed Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and chief executive of Snap, to its board of directors....
...The retail billionaire, whose company also owns the Sports Direct and Evans Cycles chains, used to hold almost a third of Debenhams’ shares but was forced to write off around £150m when the business was...
...Frasers, which owns the Sports Direct and Evans Cycles chains, on Friday said the cap made the support package “near worthless” for large retailers....
...Ashley’s group has been circling some of the stores set to be vacated by Debenhams once it is wound up....
...The company, run by billionaire Mike Ashley, cited “the length of the current lockdown, potential systemic changes to consumer behaviour and the risk of further restrictions in future”....
...Wooden cases must be checked for compliance with EU anti-pest standards, with which many older vintages do not comply, said Ashley Hopkins, director of operations at global wine trading group Liv-ex....
...The group, which is home to chains including Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, said on Thursday that pre-tax profits for the six months to October climbed to £106m, from £90m in the same period a year earlier...
...Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, whose brands include Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, on Monday withdrew the profit guidance it had laid out only 10 days ago, citing “the high likelihood of further rolling lockdowns...
...However, Evans said she had received positive replies from several companies after writing to them again last month....
...It did not say which of its brands, which range from Sports Direct, Jack Wills and Evans Cycles to the House of Fraser department store chain and Flannels luxury stores, were affected by the charge....
...“The hype outran the reality,” said Ashley Tellis at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace....
...Shares in Frasers, whose brands include Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, closed at £3.61 on Wednesday. The highest level they have ever reached was £9.22 in 2014....
...Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has also declared an interest in buying any or all of the Arcadia brands, which include Burton, Wallis, Evans, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins as well as Topshop and Topman...
...Mike Ashley, the chief executive of Frasers Group, has expressed interest in participating in any sale process....
...Lombard Mike Ashley’s offer to loan his old adversary Sir Philip Green up to £50m looks more like a leash than a lifeline. Thanks for reading....
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