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Boohoo has today announced a £25.2million deal to buy Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton as the fast fashion giant continued to carve up the remains of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire with rival ASOS. The online giant, owned by billionaire Mahmud Kamani, said they would be buying the brands and stock but would shut all 214 physical stores, … Read more
Boohoo snaps up Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton in £25m deal that does NOT include stores as online fashion giants continue to carve up Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter For Mailonline Published: 07:34 GMT, 8 February 2021 | Updated: 07:40 GMT, 8 February 2021 Boohoo has today announced £25.2million deal … Read more
Bonmarché, the value-oriented clothing retailer, went into administration for the second time in a year on 2 December 2020. There are 226 stores and more than 1200 employees. It is owned as a separate business by Philip Day, whose EWM is also in crisis (see below). Philip Day put this company into administration a few … Read more
Boohoo is favourite Arcadia brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis for up to £25m By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 28 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 January 2021 Boohoo is to enter exclusive talks to buy Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis for up to £25m Boohoo has taken poll … Read more
Hand-written maths lessons that Dambusters hero Barnes Wallis used to woo his teenage wife are set to fetch £2,000 at auction. The man who went on to invent the ‘bouncing bomb’ fell for Molly Bloxham, a cousin half his age, in the 1920s. But her father felt it was inappropriate for her senior suitor, who … Read more
Meet Danny Wallis: The Melbourne IT entrepreneur who dropped close to $12million on THREE properties at The Block 2020 finale By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:00 GMT, 22 November 2020 | Updated: 13:00 GMT, 22 November 2020 Each of the five teams on The Block walked away with a tidy profit during … Read more
An explosive personal letter penned by Edward VIII that lays bare the scale of the Royal rift provoked by his marriage to divorcee Wallis Simpson has come to light 81 years later. Twice-married Ms Simpson was at the centre of one of the most scandalous love affairs of the 20th century when she entered into … Read more
Wallis’s lucky charm: US silver dollar coin that the Duchess of Windsor carried in her handbag to bring her good fortune set to fetch £1,000 when it is sold at auction next week A silver dollar coin carried by Wallis Simpson as a good luck charm is to be sold The 1.5in piece is expected … Read more
The car which is alleged to have helped develop a controversial royal romance is set to be auctioned this week. King Edward VIII abdicated the throne on December 11, 1936, after refusing to split from Wallis Simpson. It is believed that Simpson traveled around London in secret in 1933 with the future king in a 1933 … Read more
The ex-mistress of Spain’s scandal hit former King Juan Carlos I has compared herself to Wallis Simpson as she says she was blamed for a man’s downfall. Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, 56, who lives in London, had an affair with the 82-year-old royal between 2004 and 2009. Juan Carlos, who is married to Queen Sofia, 81, left his … Read more