Some 2,000 staff at Sports Direct are celebrating as the retailer hits its profits target for the second year in a row, triggering a share payout worth an average of more than £40,000... more
JJB Sports looks to be off the hook but Sports Direct and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley remains under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office... more
Shares in Blacks Leisure jump 9% after retail tycoon Mike Ashley said he was “seriously considering” an increase in his takeover bid for the hiking gear firm... more
Mike Ashley's relationship with the City hits a new low as he refers to a rival company for which he is making an apparently serious takeover bid as 'Cobbler' in an official statement to the stockmarket... more
What’s Mike Ashley’s problem? Today the tracksuit tycoon who owns Newcastle United and Sports Direct unveiled his latest attempt to interfere in the smooth running of Blacks Leisure, nominally a rival... more
Tracksuit tycoon Mike Ashley re-opens his battle with Blacks Leisure, indicating that he plans to oppose a £20 million rescue package for the struggling retailer... more
A businessman linked to a buy-out of Newcastle claims he too would consider selling the naming rights of St James' Park if he was in charge of the club... more
Mike Ashley might have untold trouble at Newcastle United, but his Sports Direct empire continues to flog tracksuits and trainers by the truckload ... more
Dave Whelan has a few regrets when it comes to arch rival Mike Ashley but the main one is this: that he didn’t nuke him when he had the chance.
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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley's hopes of selling the stricken North East club have been thrown into fresh doubt after the Profitable Group pulled out of a possible takeover... more
Mike Ashley, the controversial tycoon who controls Sports Direct, gave the City another reason to view him with suspicion: he axed the dividend... more
JJB founder Dave Whelan has waded into the spat between the company's chairman Sir David Jones and Newcastle United's billionaire owner Mike Ashley... more
The High Street leisure sector was poised for a massive shake-up as Blacks Leisure, which also trades as Millets, said a potential £16 million takeover bid had gone away... more
Retail: Mike Ashley's Sports Direct is to bow to City pressure and start giving investors better key financial information such as up to date, like-for-like sales - but not yet... more
Retail: Controverisal rag trader Mike Ashley will have to rub along on dividend payments of less than £15 million this year after shareholder payouts were cut from from his Sports Direct group... more
Retail: Fears for the future of JJB Sports were growing as the leisure retailer offloaded another four stores to fierce rival Sports World, owned by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley... more
Football: Freddy Shepherd has told Mike Ashley to "stop being a cry baby" and reinstate Kevin Keegan as Newcastle manager before selling the club... more
Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, fresh from his bruising battle with Kevin Keegan, has said his Sports Direct business was suffering the toughest trading conditions in its history... more
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