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• Matalan bids gather pace

  BNET - 2009-11-20

  Matalan has received bids from five private equity groups, according to reports. Value chain Matalan, which may be sold for as much as £1.5bn, has attracted interest from BC Partners, Blackstone, TPG, Warburg Pincus and Advent, according to the Financial Times. A sale is unlikely to go through until the...

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• Richard Baker to front bid for Matalan

  BNET - 2009-11-16

  16 November, 2009 | By Jennifer Creevy Former Boots chief executive Richard Baker is poised to launch a bid for discount retailer Matalan in his role at private equity firm Advent International. Advent is thought to be gearing up to make a £1.5bn bid for Matalan. It is thought the...

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• Matalan weighs £1.5bn sale

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  Matalan, the privately owned discount retailer, is weighing a £1.5bn sale after a number of expressions of interest. Private equity group CVC is among the parties that has approached Matalan, which was taken private by its founder and controlling shareholder John Hargreaves amid acrimony with institutional investors and non-executive directors...

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• Matalan 'set for £1.5 billion 2010 sale'

  BNET - 2009-10-05

  5 October, 2009 Matalan could be put up for sale next year with a £1.5bn price tag, it has been reported. A sale of the discount fashion chain would net hundreds of millions of pounds in profits for founder John Hargreaves, who took the business private in an £827m deal...

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• Matalan launches recruitment drive

  BNET - 2009-09-03

  You are here: News / Matalan launches recruitment drive Retailer seeks 1,500 temporary staff for Christmas and 300 permanent employees for new stores. Matalan said the new stores, Cheetham Hill, Elgin in Morayshire and Colindale in North London, were the first of a major expansion programme involving up to 100...

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• Matalan killing: 2 in court

  - 2009-03-08

  TWO men appeared in court yesterday charged with conspiring to rob a shop manager who died in a knife attack. Jamie Simpson, 33, was stabbed in the neck as he cashed up at the Matalan store in Hackney, East London, on March 22 last year. ...

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• Matalan killing: 2 in court

  - 2009-03-08

  TWO men have been charged with murdering a store manager stabbed to death a year ago. Two other men have also been charged in connection with the raid. Jamie Simpson, 33, was stabbed in the neck as he cashed up at Matalan's branch in Hackney,...

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• Matalan to use SAS

  - 2008-06-23

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE-23 June 2008-Matalan to use SASC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Matalan, a British clothing and homeware retailer, is to install software from SAS, a supplier of business intelligence, data integration and analysis software. The announcement, made by SAS on the 23 June, said that SAS and Matalan will...

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• Football: Moyes Matalan men prove real bargain battlers

  - 2007-12-16

  THERE'S intelligent life outside the Big Four, Fabio, but not as you know it. The scufflers of the Premier League are not sprinkled with stardust, or sugar coated with celebrity. They do pragmatism, not poetry. Organisation rather than inspiration. West Ham...

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• Hargreaves quits Matalan role

  - 2007-11-19

  Business News IN BRIEF --John Hargreaves, the chairman and founder of the discount retailer Matalan, has stepped down from his role at the company less than a year after taking it private in an 800m deal. The surprise resignation has been attributed to personal reasons, according to reports....

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