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- JJB confirms £100m placing
- JJB Sports has confirmed its £100m fundraising after investors were persuaded that allegations surrounding the financial dealings of its chairman were false.The sporting goods retailer, which narrowly avoided administration this year, intends to issue a firm placing and a placing and open offer, priced at 25p each, underwritten by...
- External links 2009-10-12
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- JJB Sports' chairman faces epic task
- Sir David Jones has fought many battles in his life. He ousted George Davies from the boardroom at Next, strived to transform Littlewoods into an aspirational brand and has faced a long fight against the effects of Parkinson's disease. But it may be his battle to rescue JJB Sports that...
- News items 2009-10-09
- JJB to go ahead with £100m capital raising
- JJB Sports has confirmed that it will forge ahead with plans to raise £100m via an equity issue after it was forced to delay the capital raising last week. JJB said this morning that it is finalising arrangements for the equity issue. In a statement, it said it is "pleased...
- News items 2009-10-12
- JJB shareholder sells 22 million shares ahead of capital raising
- 19 October, 2009 | By Lisa Berwin One of JJB Sport's largest shareholders, Crystal Amber Fund, has sold over half of its shares in the retailer but says it will support its proposed capital raising. On Friday Crystal Amber sold 22 million JJB Sports shares, leaving it with a 5.45%...
- News items 2009-10-19
- JJB Sports poised for £100m offering
- JJB Sports, which narrowly avoided administration in April, is planning a share placing and open offer that will raise close to £100m, more than the total market value of the sporting goods retailer. The shares are likely to be priced below 25p, a significant discount to Thursday's close of 34½p....
- News items 2009-10-09
- JJB reveals former executives are under investigation by Soca
- The Serious Organised Crime Agency is looking at the actions of former executives at JJB Sports, it emerged yesterday. The sports retailer has already said it is under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading for price fixing, while the Serious Fraud Office is looking at possible deception by former...
- News items 2009-10-13
- JJB Sports names Next veteran as exec chairman
- Business in brief RETAILING The ailing sportswear retailer JJB Sports has appointed Sir David Jones, the former chief exec-utive of Next who turned around the fashion retailer in the late 1980s, as executive chairman. JJB said that Chris Ronnie would continue as JJB's group chief exec-utive, but...
- Research articles 2009-01-03
- JJB proceeds with £100m fundraising
- 12 October, 2009 | By Lisa Berwin JJB Sports has unveiled details of its £100m equity raising and new banking terms. The retailer is proposing to raise £100m through a firm placing and an open offer at an issue price of 25p per ordinary share, a discount of 23.7% to...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Sir David Jones considered taking JJB private
- Chris Ronnie, the former JJB Sports chief executive, who was sacked after being held responsible for the retailer???s demise, has claimed executive chairman Sir David Jones considered taking the business private. An email dated March 2008 and seen by the Observer revealed that Ronnie and Jones, had together considered a...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Chris Ronnie and Sir David Jones considered taking JJB private
- Chris Ronnie, the former JJB Sports chief executive, who was sacked after being held responsible for the retailer???s demise, has claimed executive chairman Sir David Jones considered taking the business private. An email dated March 2008 and seen by the Observer revealed that Ronnie and Jones, had together considered a...
- News items 2009-08-10
- The Investment Column: JJB Sports gets back on form
- IT HAS been more a marathon than a sprint, but JJB Sports, Britain's biggest sports retailer, is now well on the road to recovery following its botched acquisition of the Sports Division chain 18 months ago. The deal left JJB with stock and delivery problems. Dave Whelan,...
- Research articles 2000-04-13
- JJB Sports in the takeover frame.
- Dave Whelan's decision to sell his 29 per cent stake makes JJB Sports a more likely takeover target. Shunil Roy-Chaudhuri Dave Whelan, JJB's founder, has sold his 29 per cent stake in the sportswear retailer for GBP190m to Icelandic financial group, Exista, and Umbro's...
- Research articles 2007-06-13
- City Trades: JJB Sports (JJB).
- Chart master Tarquin Coe thinks JJB Sports is the depths of fashion. Tarquin Coe JJB Sports is at a key juncture as it encounters the 50-day exponential moving average and resistance at 120p, formed from a weekly price spike back in 2002, says...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
- JJB Sports to raise £100m
- JJB Sports is to launch an equity issue to raise £100m, five months after it completed a CVA. JJB Sports said that arrangements for the fundraising, which is greater than expected, were in the process of being finalised. JJB has had a difficult year. It put its fashion lifestyle division,...
- News items 2009-10-09
- JJB Sports to proceed with share offer
- JJB Sports has confirmed its £100m fundraising after investors were persuaded that allegations surrounding the financial dealings of its chairman were false. The sporting goods retailer, which narrowly avoided administration this year, intends to issue a firm placing and a placing and open offer, priced at 25p each, underwritten by...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Investors buy into £100m JJB Sports fundraising
- 29 October, 2009 | By George MacDonald JJB Sports has reported that its £100m fundraising has been successful, putting the embattled business on a firmer financial footing. The retailer said that 90.4% of open offer shares had been taken up by qualifying sharehoolders and that demand for the remainder was...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Sacked JJB boss Ronnie hits back
- 10 August, 2009 Chris Ronnie, the former JJB chief executive who was sacked after being held responsible for the company???s slide to near bankruptcy, claims he has been made a scapegoat. ???The last six months has been a slaughter and I want to put my side of the story,??? he...
- News items 2009-08-10
- JJB takes a cautious path to expansion.
- Byline: The CFO interview David Greenwood JJB Sports JJB Sports is a family-run retailer based in Wigan, in northern England, with an unashamedly conservative approach to doing business. Sounds unexciting? Think again. The company has just delivered half-year results with revenues up 14%, operating...
- Research articles 2001-10-22
- Profit warning from JJB.(Financial report)
- JJB has issued a profit warning and raised the possibility of removing its adidas and Nike store-in-stores, which would reduce its differentiation from rival Sports Direct Shunil Roy-Chaudhuri First-half like-for-like sales dropped 4.4 per cent at JJB Sports. The group was up against a...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- JJB Sports acquires discount retailer for pounds 42m
- BRITAIN'S BIGGEST sports retailer JJB Sports surprised the City yesterday with the pounds 42.3m acquisition of TJ Hughes, the discount department store group that was forced to restate its accounts last year. Many analysts questioned the unexpected move, which propels JJB into the more competitive world of...
- Research articles 2002-03-09
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