Next tipped as ‘frontrunner’ in race to buy Topshop

Fashion giant Next tipped as ‘frontrunner’ in race to buy Sir Philip Green’s Topshop empire, ahead of reported deadline for bids By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 17 January 2021 | Updated: 21:56 GMT, 17 January 2021 Fashion giant Next has been tipped as the ‘frontrunner’ in the race to buy … Read more

Topshop worker claims owner Sir Philip Green ran flagship store with an ‘iron grip of fear’

Topshop worker at London’s flagship store claims owner Sir Philip Green had the code name ‘Papa One’ and ‘ran it with an iron grip of fear and berated staff if anything was out of place’ Writer Hanna Flint told how she worked at Oxford Street branch aged 21 in 2009 Brand was gaining global acclaim … Read more

Black teenager wins £16,000 after tribunal says Topshop bosses were racist for calling her ‘thick’

A black teenager has won £16,000 after a tribunal ruled Topshop bosses were racist for calling her ‘thick’ and she was ‘earning a lot of money for someone like her’. Shaniqua McKenzie, who was 16 at the time, was asked by her bosses at a Topshop in Wimbledon, London, how her grandma could afford to … Read more

Next plots dramatic Topshop rescue with US investor

Next plots dramatic Topshop rescue:  Fashion in talks with US investor over deal to rescue Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 18 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 18 December 2020 Bosses at Next will spend the weekend thrashing out a deal to rescue Sir Philip … Read more

Topshop sparks online buying frenzy by slashing prices to as low as £1

Topshop has mounted a discounting frenzy with items on sale on its website for as little as £1 as the former High Street favourite desperately tries to shift stock. Tops are on sale for £2.40 and blouses for £6, two weeks after the chain’s parent company Arcadia owned by retail tycoon Sir Philip Green sank … Read more

Mike Ashley ready to pounce on Topshop AND Debenhams

Mike Ashley ready to pounce on Topshop AND Debenhams: Sports Direct billionaire in talks to mount a parallel rescue By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 10 December 2020 Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has revealed it could still buy Arcadia brands such as Topshop as it … Read more

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN’S NOTEBOOK: Topshop and Debenhams have become doomed white elephants… 

As the Goliaths of the high street tumble like a flimsy line of dominos, it’s tempting to think they are all suffering from the same affliction, but there’s a great difference between last week’s most high-profile victims – Arcadia’s Topshop and Debenhams. I was interviewed by the BBC as news of the collapse of Philip … Read more

Topshop top men in £1m a year pension club

Arcadia, the collapsed retail group behind Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has a lucrative pension fund that has been paying former executives up to £1million a year, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.  The £400million scheme – which was set up in the 1970s and is now falling into the hands of the Pension Protection Fund … Read more

TopShop and other Arcadia stores will only now accept gift cards as half of any purchase

TopShop and other Arcadia stores will only now accept gift cards as half of any purchase as group goes into administration with 13,000 workers facing the axe TopShop and other Arcadia stores stopped accepting gift cards online  Even when used in stores they can only cover half the cost of a purchase Administrators are not … Read more

The rise and fall of Topshop

Just a decade ago, Topshop was the undisputed queen of the British high street.  With its trendy clothes, sell-out designer collaborations and 100,000 sq ft Oxford Street flagship store, the brand attracted everyone from tourists and teenagers to It Girls and fashion editors. But fast forward to today and Topshop, along with the rest of … Read more