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Mulberry Group PLC

  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Mulberry’s biggest shareholder has ‘no interest’ in selling to Frasers

    Mike Ashley’s retail group has made two conditional offers for the UK luxury handbag maker

    A Bayswater handbag on display inside a Mulberry Group Plc luxury boutique in London.
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    News in-depthFrasers Group
    Mike Ashley’s Frasers continues spree despite Mulberry handbagging

    UK retailer’s investments in listed rivals are worth around £500mn

    Mike Ashley, Ong Beng Seng, a Mulberry bag, and sterling bank notes
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Mulberry rejects £83mn takeover bid from Mike Ashley’s Frasers

    Struggling UK luxury brand says offer does not recognise its ‘substantial future potential value’

    A Mulberry bag
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Frasers Group makes £83mn offer for Mulberry

    Sports Direct owner seeks to avoid ‘another Debenhams situation’ with approach for British luxury brand

    Mulberry handbags displayed for sale
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Luxury goods
    Mulberry names ex-Ganni boss Andrea Baldo as new chief executive

    Thierry Andretta is leaving the British luxury brand with immediate effect

    Woman with Mulberry purple crocodile leather bag
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Swetha Ramachandran
    Luxury price rises leave rich asking: is it worth it?

    The post-pandemic spending surge appears to be over

    A Chanel fashion show in Paris
  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
    Mulberry warns rich shoppers shunning London for Europe

    Luxury brands say international tourists put off by decision to end VAT-free shopping in UK

    Mulberry handbags are seen for sale in the Dundrum branch of Brown Thomas, Dublin, Ireland
  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Investments
    Investors’ Chronicle: Moonpig, Wise, Mulberry

    Companies analysis from our sister publication

    A Mulberry fashion event in Seoul, South Korea
  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Mulberry warns London’s luxury stores under threat

    High rents, Brexit, and end of tourist VAT scheme compound effects of coronavirus pandemic

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    LombardBryce Elder
    Spring has sprung in debt markets but shareholders face a long winter

    Cineworld’s refinancing points to grim survival; Heathrow and high-end retailers battle VAT relief plans

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Frasers lifts stake in Mulberry

    Mike Ashley’s group now owns 29% of luxury handbag maker

    Mulberry shop on New Bond Street, London in August
  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    LombardKate Burgess
    Cineworld is in slow-motion endgame

    Cinema chain draws curtains on screens; Mulberry suffers at home on the high street

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    Mulberry warns on sales after falling to £14m loss

    British luxury group shares hit as its says footfall to stores is ‘alarmingly low’

    Mulberry lifted online sales by 69% in the six months ending in September
  • Monday, 8 June, 2020
    Mulberry plans to cut a quarter of its workforce

    Luxury handbag maker hit by fewer overseas visitors and social distancing in stores

  • Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
    Mulberry creative chief Johnny Coca to depart

    British handbag maker’s value has plummeted 85% in past two years as turnround plan stalls

    FILE PHOTO: Thierry Andretta, CEO of Mulberry, poses for a portrait at the company offices in London, Britain, January 29, 2018. Picture taken January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File photo
  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    Frasers Group
    Mike Ashley snaps up stake in Mulberry

    Group owned by retail tycoon takes holding in upmarket handbag maker that is big supplier to House of Fraser

    Models present creations by Mulberry during their catwalk show on the third day of the Autumn/Winter 2017 London Fashion Week at the Old Billingsgate market in London on February 19, 2017. / AFP / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 7 November, 2018
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Can Marks and Spencer’s strategy fix its age-old problems?

    Ageing customer base dogs retailer as it invests in technology and prices

    FILE: A shopper browses fresh fruit and vegetables in the foodhall inside a branch of Marks & Spencer Group Plc (M&S) in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. A decline in sales of food and clothing in the fourth quarter underlined the need for a restructuring of the 134-year-old retailer, including plans to shut nearly one-third of its large stores in the U.K. Our editors select the best archive images of M&S as profits drop 62% and store closures planned. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 7 November, 2018
    Gloomy UK retail environment widens Mulberry losses
  • Monday, 20 August, 2018
    LexPersonal & Household Goods
    Mulberry/House of Fraser: posh bags, bum numbers Premium content

    Luxury group has greater reliance on department stores than real top-notch brands

    LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 10:  News photographers and camera operaters stand outside the House of Fraser flagship store on Oxford Street on August 10, 2018 in London, England. The high street retailers House of Fraser have been bought in a £90 million rescue deal that includes all of its stores. Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has bought the store after its future has been in jeapordy.  (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 20 August, 2018
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Mulberry hit by House of Fraser collapse

    Shares drop almost 30% on warning that department store’s woes will cost it up to £3m

  • Wednesday, 13 June, 2018
    Retail & Consumer industry
    British brand Mulberry looks to Asia to boost sales 

    The luxury handbag maker reported falling UK sales

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
    UK companies
    Losses grow despite tourism boost for Mulberry
  • Friday, 7 July, 2017
    Personal & Household Goods
    Mulberry inks deal to sell in Japan

    British leather goods brand aims to expand in Asia

    A pedestrian is reflected in the window display of a Mulberry Group Plc luxury store in London, U.K., on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Mulberry Group said Bruno Guillon will step down as chief executive officer after two years during which the British luxury handbag maker lost two-thirds of its market value. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 7 July, 2017
    Personal & Household Goods
    Mulberry launches Japan joint venture
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2017
    Personal & Household Goods
    Mulberry bags 21% jump in profits

    British leather goods group lifts full-year sales but signals softer start to 2017

    FILE PHOTO: A model presents a creation at the Mulberry catwalk show during London Fashion Week, Britain February 19, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo
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