Leaderless and languishing, has British Land lost the plot?
November 20, 2008
British Land is not the most obvious investment proposition: a highly indebted
property company without a chief executive, which, by its own admission,
expects the value of its assets to continue to fall. In sending its shares
down 7 per cent yesterday on the publication of first-half results, the
stock market appears to be of similar mind.
Woolworths in talks over £1 offer despite investor vowing to fight for better value
Woolworths’ biggest shareholder was locked in meetings with advisers last night over how best to fight Hilco’s £1 offer for the company’s retail arm.
Woolworths in crisis rescue talks
THE management of Woolworths was locked in crisis talks this weekend about securing a revised rescue deal to save the group from imminent collapse into administration.
Woolworths dives as it confirms...
Woolworths this morning confirmed a report in The Times that it is in
talks to sell its retail business.
Woolworths in talks to sell retail...
Woolworths is in talks to sell its entire high street business to Hilco, the
specialist distressed fund, for £1.
Woolworths stands on brink as wage...
Woolworths is at risk of going into administration as soon as this morning as
it scrabbles to find sufficient funds to pay its monthly wage bill.
Woolworths stores to close after...
Woolworths went into administration last night, putting thousands of high
street jobs at risk despite last-ditch government efforts to save it.
Woolworths lays off staff as search...
Woolworths will make 450 of its staff redundant in what is expected to be the
first of many job cuts at the collapsed high street retailer.
Closing-down sales herald end of...
Woolworths will begin a huge closing down sale across its 813 stores today
after Deloitte, the administrator, admitted that it had been unable to find
a buyer for the...
Woolworths investor touts alternative deal
Woolworths’ largest shareholder, Ardeshir Naghshineh, is in talks with the retailer’s banks about an alternative plan to a sale the company’s retail arm to Hilco for just £1.
Woolworths' main shareholder in bank talks
Ardeshir Naghshineh, Woolworths' largest shareholder, is in last-ditch talks with the retailer's banks about an alternative to a sale of the high street chain's retail arm to Hilco for £1.
Chaos and tears as Woolworths’ sale...
It is 9.30am and Sandra, assistant manager of Woolworths in the Wiltshire
market town of Devizes, is in tears beneath her red-and-white Santa hat.
Woolworths to close all stores by...
Woolworths will end 99 years of high street trading by January 5 when it
closes 807 stores and lays off 27,000 permanent and temporary staff.
Woolworths hires finance veteran in...
Woolworths has appointed a new chief financial officer days after the
departure of a senior director raised concerns that other executives may
leave the troubled retailer.
Woolworths rocked as senior director...
One of Woolworths’ most senior directors has quit only a month after the high
street retailer’s new chief executive savaged the poor performance of the
group.
Woolworths staff secure extra day's...
About 6,800 Woolworths staff will be receiving an extra day's pay after the
administrators of the collapsed store chain decided to postpone the closure
of its final 200...
Woolworths shares dive to all-time...
Woolworths had a day to forget yesterday, when it posted a profit warning, revealed dire recent trading, and tore up plans to sell its £200m stake in DVD publisher 2...
Potential buyers emerge to save Woolworths staff
The new management of Woolworths today revealed it has already received several expressions of interests from parties about buying parts of the business which collapsed last night after 99-years of trading.
Bidders sought as beleaguered Woolworths and MFI stores go up for sale
The starting pistol was fired yesterday for the sale of Woolworths and MFI as the court-appointed managers sought buyers for the beleaguered stores.
Woolworths may plunge into a retail...
If Steve Johnson wondered what he had let himself in for by agreeing to be the
new chief executive of Woolworths, it was laid bare yesterday. According to
one City analyst, he...
Woolworths rejects offer by Iceland...
Woolworths has rejected a surprise offer to acquire its retail division by Malcolm Walker, chief executive of the frozen food specialist Iceland.
Woolworths angers shareholders by...
Woolworths faces a showdown with its biggest shareholders after the ailing
retailer rejected a takeover approach for its 815 stores yesterday from
Malcolm Walker, the founder...
Woolworths nears end as buyer fails...
Woolworths is set to hold a closing down sale in the next few days after
administrators failed to find a buyer for the company's 813-store retail
chain.
Woolworths’ suitor set to sweeten...
Hilco, Woolworths’ suitor, has sweetened the terms of its £1 offer for the company’s retail division, keeping crisis talks over the company’s fate alive.
Government wades in to save Woolworths
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