The founders of JD Sports today shared £44.6m after agreeing to sell their stakes and quit the high street chain. John Wardle and David Makin are selling their combined 45% shareholding to clothing maker Pentland Group in a move that values the company they founded in 1981 at £99.8m.
David Quinn | 07/04/2005 | 14:30
Neptune Developments and Countryside Properties are to develop a mixed-use scheme on the site of the defunct Fourth Grace, near Liverpool’s Pier Head.
Paul Unger | 10/02/2004 | 07:00
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has submitted plans for a store in Netherton, Merseyside. The 280,000 sq ft (26,000 sq m) store will be built on land between Dunnings Bridge Road and Heysham Road in the Switch Island area of north Liverpool.
Paul Unger | 11/09/2003 | 13:00
Manchester-based Hale Leisure has sold its four remaining bars in the city for around £5m. Hale, co-owned by Simply Red manager and Ask Developments chairman Andy Dodd with founders Aiden Clancey and Eamonn Dwyer, has sold its Barca, Prague 5, Berlins and Glass bars.
Paul Unger | 08/07/2003 | 16:20
Grosvenor and Liverpool council were today forced to defend their negotiating record over the £750m Paradise Street retail development, at the pre-public inquiry meeting.
Catherine Cattanach | 12/09/2002 | 07:00
ING Real Estate subsidiary Baring Houston & Saunders (BH&S) has launched its £100m ING UK Residential Fund several months later than planned.
Manufacturers across the UK believe the worst of the recession is now behind them, research out today showed. According to the latest CBI/Business Strategies quarterly Regional Trends Survey, business confidence in most areas has risen for the first time in more than two years.
Roger Pearson | 01/05/2002 | 13:35
Mark Blunden, who sold collectors items in the Manchester Corn Exchange before the building was extensively damaged by the 1996 IRA bombing of the nearby Arndale Centre, has failed in his Appeal Court challenge to his landlords decision to terminate his lease as a result of the bombing.
David Thame | 13/02/2002 | 14:15
Manchester is facing “an unprecedented crisis” in its office market with a three-year supply famine looming, according to Dunlop Heywood Lorenz (DHL).
Andrea Cockram | 07/08/2001 | 15:25
House prices are rising in all regions of England and Wales, with house price inflation for the year predicted to run at 10%, according to hometrack.co.uk’s National July Survey.
