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Frasers Group
Mike Ashley to step down as director of Frasers Group
...Sometimes the punts worked out — he made gains on shares in US sportswear retailer Finish Line when rival JD Sports acquired the company in 2018. But not always....
September 20, 2022
The Weekend Essay
Rule of the Rings — why film-makers can’t resist Tolkien’s fantasy world
...As the entertainment magazine Variety observed in 1969, when United Artists began work on what would become Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated adaptation, “with the possible exception of JD Salinger’s Catcher...
August 26, 2022
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
City Bulletin
City Bulletin: Royal Mail to cut 2,000 management jobs in latest overhaul Premium content
...Lombard JD Sports has been empire-building. Now it has put part of that empire to the torch, Go Outdoors....
June 25, 2020
Due Diligence
Has Masayoshi Son resurrected SoftBank? Premium content
...For reference, the Tiger Global fund that owns Palantir also held stakes in Facebook, LinkedIn and China’s JD.com — companies that had long ago found “exits” through sales or public listings....
July 15, 2020
LombardMatthew Vincent
Royal Mail boss must ready for Brexit and leadership challenge
...No, it is not the beginning of a bad joke, writes Kate Burgess, but Lombard’s vision of a JD Wetherspoon board meeting....
November 15, 2018
Corporate culture
JD Sports launches investigation into working conditions
...The situation echoes that of rival Sports Direct, whose chairman Keith Hellawell hit out last week at MPs, the media and unions for undertaking a “damaging” campaign around its own working practices....
December 15, 2016
FT Live
Future of Retail
Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation
Tuesday, 17 SeptemberLondon, UK
Due Diligence
Game over for China’s most deal hungry companies? Premium content
...Others in the group include Hillhouse Capital Management, real estate firm China Vanke, JD.com and Ping An Insurance. Fang (below) is very connected....
June 23, 2017
Retail & Consumer industry
JJB Sports sale gathers pace
...JJB had previously lost chief executive Keith Jones, who was replaced by Beverley Williams, the former chief executive of La Senza....
September 3, 2012
Retail & Consumer industry
Decathlon backs off from JJB Sports bid
...Both GA Europe and JD Sports declined to comment....
September 10, 2012
Retail & Consumer industry
Sports Direct approaching watershed
...Former government drugs adviser Keith Hellawell became non-executive chairman in 2009, which helped address corporate governance concerns....
February 17, 2012
UK retail results
JJB Sports receives pre-Christmas bounce
...has improved in the second half of the financial year and we achieved a Christmas trading performance broadly in line with our expectations in the face of an extremely challenging consumer environment,” Keith...
January 5, 2012
UK retail results
JJB Sports hopes for Olympics sales boost
...JJB’s management team did not comment further on the trading statement, but when the retailer narrowly avoided administration in March 2011, chief executive Keith Jones said that better product buying would...
February 20, 2012
UK politics
Picking up the pieces after Tottenham riot
...Amputated mannequins, clothes hangers and discarded shoeboxes lay scattered amid broken glass outside JD Sports in Tottenham Hale on Sunday as retailers and residents worked to pick up the pieces after the...
August 7, 2011
UK retail results
JJB warns restructuring could take five years
...“We had to trade more aggressively in order to trade the business through the restructuring, and we have to accept this lack of certainty was a feature for our suppliers,” said Keith Jones, chief executive...
May 25, 2011
Retail & Consumer industry
JJB staves off closure with £31.5m placing
...Hopes of a takeover by rival JD Sports Fashion are fading and analysts do not expect any offer to be forthcoming before the company’s finances are on a firmer footing....
February 21, 2011
FT Live
Outstanding Directors Exchange
Fostering trust for steadfast leadership
Wednesday, 12 JuneHarvard Club of New York City, West 44th Street, New York, NY, USA
Energy sector
London small caps: Circle Oil rises
...JJB Sports rose 17.4 per cent to 5.4p after the lossmaking retailer said it was in preliminary talks to be acquired by JD Sports Fashion....
February 2, 2011
UK retail results
Talk of second cash call jolts JJB
...Keith Jones, chief executive, said: “The like-for-like growth we have achieved so far is not as much as I would have liked.”...
November 11, 2010
UK retail results
JJB turns to promotions to boost sales
...“Since the half year-end, sales have been more volatile,” Keith Jones, chief executive of JJB Sports, said on Tuesday....
September 29, 2010
UK retail results
Wetherspoon bemoans tax rises
...JD Wetherspoon has complained of continuing cost and tax pressures while reporting an 11 per cent decrease in first-half profit....
March 11, 2011
Neil Hume
Time gentleman please [updated]
...Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said: “The Board would like to thank Keith and Paul for their hard work and contribution to JD Wetherspoon over recent years....
October 14, 2010
Retail & Consumer industry
JD Wetherspoon in double management shake-up
...JD Wetherspoon is abruptly parting ways with both its finance director and chief operating officer for reasons that the pub company has declined to shed much light on....
October 14, 2010
Companies
Calling time
...Three days later JD Wetherspoon said finance director Keith Down and chief operating officer Paul Harbottle were leaving. Phil Dutton, Punch’s finance director, is the latest to announce his departure....
November 17, 2010
FT PeoplePrivate equity
An Italian job for outgoing CBI head
...… Upturn for Down Keith Down, the ex-finance director at JD Wetherspoon who left abruptly last year, has been hired as numbers man at Go-Ahead, to succeed Nick Swift who is leaving for BA....
January 25, 2011
UK retail results
JJB Sports warns on banking covenants
...In March, JJB appointed a new chief executive, Keith Jones, after having been without a chief executive since the prior March....
December 3, 2010
UK retail results
Breakfast sales boost JD Wetherspoon profits
...“The 7am opening has had an encouraging start,” said Keith Down, finance director of JD Wetherspoon....
September 10, 2010

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