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Shop Direct, which owns department store brands including Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, has called time on the catalogue. The retail group, which has produced catalogues for more than 80 years, says ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Shop Direct, the privately owned British online department store retailer, that trades as Littlewoods, Very and isme, reported its first pretax profit for 10 years as the firm ...
In 2009, Shop Direct – which owns popular brands including Littlewoods and Very.co.uk - was distributing some 30 million catalogues to customers around the UK. Four short years later, after having ...
Speke-headquartered online retailer Shop Direct, which owns Littlewoods.com and Very.co.uk, has signed an agreement with IBM as part of a £50m financial services programme. The deal means that IBM ...
Shop Direct has secured a £150 million funding boost from owners, the billionaire Barclay brothers, as it looks to cover a hefty payment protection insurance bill. The group’s auditors warned last ...
Shop Direct owners the Barclay family are on the cusp of agreeing a £150m refinancing deal to shore up the online retailer’s balance sheet. According to The Times, advisers to the Barclays have ...
Online retailer Shop Direct will close three warehouses in Greater Manchester, putting nearly 2,000 jobs at risk. The group, which owns Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, said it would close its sites in ...
Shop Direct’s parent company Shop Direct Holdings Limited has secured £150 million worth of new funding. The Very and Littlewoods owner announced back in October that intended to raise up to that ...
Shop Direct chief executive Alex Baldock is stepping down from the helm of the online retailer next summer after five years. Baldock, who joined the online retail group in 2012, has been credited for ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shop Direct’s auditor has warned of “material uncertainty” around the UK retailer’s ability to continue ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A company controlled by the billionaire Barclay brothers will inject an additional £75m of equity into Shop ...
Shop Direct has aligned itself more closely to its flagship Very.co.uk retail platform after undergoing a full rebrand to The Very Group. More than just a change of name, the move forms part of a ...