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  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Arcadia pension schemes look to avoid bailout

    Sale of brands and property assets leave trustees hopeful they can avoid lower benefits available from Pension Protection Fund

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Boohoo to buy Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis brands for £25m

    Deal marks final stage in break-up of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    News in-depthASOS PLC
    Asos and Boohoo rip up centuries of British retail heritage

    Online rivals benefit from high street woes as they snap up Topshop and Debenhams brands

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    ASOS PLC
    Asos to buy Topshop and other Arcadia brands for £265m

    Deal will save about 300 jobs and excludes the group’s 70 stores

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Boohoo in talks over remaining Arcadia brands

    Retailer’s acquisition of Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis could complete break-up of Philip Green’s empire

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    LombardBryce Elder
    Online retailers are playing a risky game with the UK high street

    Deals pursued by Boohoo and Asos will hit town centres; a rare earth project where cash is sparse

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Retail has a place on the high street of the future

    Fixing business rates is key to helping the industry survive

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    UK retail industry
    Boohoo snaps up Debenhams brand for £55m as Asos targets Topshop

    Groups set to swallow chains that struggled to compete with them online, putting more than 20,000 jobs at risk

  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    ASOS PLC
    Asos bids for Topshop amid sell-off of Arcadia assets

    Online fashion retailer said to have offered towards top end of £250m-£300m price range

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    UK retail industry
    Edinburgh Woollen Mill sold with up to 2,500 jobs saved

    Group of Asian investors will inject ‘tens of millions’ into Philip Day’s businesses

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    Amy O'Brien
    Topshop’s demise is the end of an era

    As millennials grew up, a much-loved brand fell apart

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Arcadia’s Evans brand sold for £23m to Australian retailer

    City Chic deal signals the start of the break-up of fashion empire that went into administration last month

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    UK retail industry
    Next weighs bid for Philip Green’s Topshop

    Any deal would be part-financed by an investment partner

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    Mary Portas
    Covid didn’t kill Topshop: a lack of creativity did

    For three decades, much of retail has been led by numbers people who squashed creatives

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Ros Altmann
    Pension scheme members must keep calm in the face of Arcadia shock

    Employees of failing companies should not transfer out of defined benefit funds but trust PPF umbrella

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    The inadequate trials of Philip Green

    Pilloried retail tycoon has been less aggressive than private equity groups on high street

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Tina Green brings forward £50m Arcadia pension payment

    Wife of retailer Philip Green accelerates timetable as political pressure over deficit grows

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Q&APersonal Finance
    Arcadia collapse: what it means for 10,000 staff pensions

    Industry ‘lifeboat’ will now assess state of company’s retirement schemes

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Arcadia and Debenhams: retailers count the cost of lockdown

    FT experts comment on new tiered restrictions for retailers, pubs and restaurants

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    UK ministers to ‘keep a close eye’ on Arcadia collapse

    Promise comes as MPs demand answers about pension payments

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    City Bulletin
    City Bulletin: AstraZeneca sells rights to best-selling anti-cholesterol drug Premium

    AstraZeneca agrees $350m rights deal, Horta-Osório transfers to Credit Suisse, 2021 market predictions

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Arcadia retail group collapses into administration

    Philip Green’s group becomes highest-profile retail victim of pandemic, putting 13,000 jobs at risk

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Arcadia and the shakeout on the high street

    Pandemic is bringing about in months what might otherwise have taken years

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    LombardBryce Elder
    Mike Ashley’s designs on Arcadia are far from utopian

    The Frasers boss is toying with old foe Philip Green; Reckitt is ruthless in pursuit of spin-off Indivior

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    News in-depth
    The rise and fall of Philip Green’s Arcadia retail empire

    Biggest brands of Topshop, Burton and Wallis have fallen far from their heyday in the early 2000s

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