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  • Frasers: Mike Ashley’s high street giant that has confounded its critics

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    Frasers Group has managed to buck a general decline in the UK retail sector, thanks largely to a string of savvy acquisitions. What does the future hold for the Mike Ashley-owned group?

    Groups of shoppers leave a branch of British high street sports goods and fashion retailer Sports Direct on 2nd September, 2021 in Leeds, United Kingdom. (photo by Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images)
  • Frasers acquires parts of Matchesfashion out of administration – but jobs not in deal

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    Frasers Group has acquired parts of Matchesfashion out of administration in a deal which does not include its stock or its hundreds of employees. 

    Frasers Group has sold its stake in N Brown for nearly £40m
  • Matches racked up debts of over £200m as Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group failed to turnaround luxury fashion brand

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    Fashion brand Matches owed more than £200m as it was put into administration by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group , it has been revealed.

    Matches entered administration in March 2024.

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