Woolworths sale after Theo Paphitis of Dragon's Den says 'I'm out'

Woolworths will hold its biggest sale today after Theo Paphitis, the Dragons' Den entrepreneur, walked away from a bid for the collapsed retail chain.

Woolworths nears end as buyer fails to appear

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.

Kingfisher founder mulls Woolworths bid

Sir Geoff Mulcahy, the former chief executive of Woolworths, is mulling a bid to take over more than half of the struggling retailer’s high street stores.

Deloitte is a worrying spectre at Woolworths’ Hallowe’en

It is somehow appropriate that with Hallowe’en around the corner, the horror story at Woolworths enters a new, potentially brutal, chapter. Just when Steve Johnson, the chief executive, must have felt it was safe to leave home and visit some stores, it now emerges that the high street retailer’s lenders have called in a corporate restructuring specialist to advise them about Woolies’ future. Cue headlines that will send yet more shivers down the spine of the group’s worried workforce.

Zavvi creditors call in Ernst & Young as Woolworths fallout spreads wider

Creditors of Zavvi have parachuted an emergency restructuring team from Ernst & Young into the struggling high street retailer, which previously traded as Virgin Megastores.

Woolworths down to its last days in Britain

The venerable retailer had long been a fixture on England's streets, but changing times have left it bankrupt. Before the arrival of Wal-Mart, before the anything-for-a-pound stores, there was always good ol' "Woolies."