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• Debenhams to buy Principles stock

  - 2009-03-09

  Business in brief RETAILERS Debenhams is buying the stock from Principles part of the defunct Mosaic Fashions but the department store chain will not take over the shops. Some 110 Principles head office jobs have been axed, with more than 2,000 more at...

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• Mosaic brands come back to life as Aurora

  - 2009-03-03

  MOSAIC Fashions, the owner of multiple high-street fashion chains, went into administration yesterday and was immediately broken up and reborn. Alongside the appointment of Deloitte as the Mosaic administrator, the company immediately sold four brands Karen Millen, Coast, Warehouse and Oasis to newly created Aurora Fashions....

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• Bidders circle Mosaic's fashion chain Principles

  - 2009-02-17

  The womenswear retailer Principles is on the verge of being sold after its debt-laden parent company revealed it had received a number of approaches for the 361-store chain. The revelation by Mosaic Fashions, which is 49 per cent owned by the collapsed Icelandic investor Baugur, came as it...

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• Green waits as high street put up for sale

  - 2009-02-05

  Retail tycoon eyes bargains as Icelandic company behind top brands collapses A LARGE section of the British high street was in effect put up for sale yesterday as the Icelandic retail group Baugur filed for protection from its creditors. The company, which has investments in...

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• Late festive season surge helps high street retailers

  - 2009-01-10

  A late surge of pre- and post-Christmas shoppers helped some of the UK's biggest high street names to post robust sales yesterday, but Mosaic Fashions warned on profits and revealed the depth of its woes from the Icelandic banking crisis. John Lewis, the department store, led the pack...

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• Sir Philip knocks back Texas offer for Baugur

  - 2008-10-16

  THE PRIVATE equity firm Texas Pacific tried to approach Sir Philip Green, the retail tycoon, this week about the prospect of working together to buy the debt of Baugur, the beleaguered Icelandic investor. However, the American investor has been told that Sir Philip is determined to press ahead...

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• Baugur swoops on UK fashion group

  - 2007-06-23

  Baugur offered 14.1p a share yesterday to buy out investors in Mosaic Fashions, the UK retail group that owns brands such as Whistles and Oasis. Baugur already owns 38 per cent of the group, which its offer values at [pound]850m. Gunnar Sigurdsson, the chief executive of Baugur, said: "We also...

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• Baugur buys out Mosaic Fashions

  - 2007-05-05

  Baugur is buying out Mosaic Fashions, the owner of the Karen Millen and Oasis chains, less than two years after floating it on the Icelandic stock exchange. The offer from the Icelandic investment group, which has a majority stake in Mosaic, values the UK fashion chains at $800m ([pound]400m).

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• MCCARTHY STEPS INTO NEW ROLE.(Don McCarthy expertises his role as executive chairman of House of Fraser)(Brief article)

  - 2006-11-13

  Byline: ELISA ANNISS LONDON - Don McCarthy will bring his wealth of footwear expertise to his newly minted role as executive chairman of the U.K.'s House of Fraser department store group. The 61-store chain was purchased last week by Highland Acquisitions...

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• Mosaic Fashions hf reports Q2 pre-tax result of GBP7.1m

  - 2006-09-29

  NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-29 September 2006-Mosaic Fashions hf reports Q2 pre-tax result of GBP7.1mC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Icelandic fashion group Mosaic Fashions hf issued on Thursday (28 September) its report for the second quarter of the financial year 2006/2007, posting a pre-tax result of GBP7.1m, as compared to...

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