Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and billionaire philanthropist, has given a much-needed boost to a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The creditors of JJB Sports will meet on Monday to decide whether to allow the leisure-wear seller to go ahead ...

One of JJB Sports's biggest shareholders sold more than half of its shares in the troubled sporting equipment retailer yesterday before the result of its £100m fund-raising emerges next Thursday.

Shares in retailer JJB Sports tumbled 19 per cent today after it revealed the collapse of takeover talks and a 25 per cent fall in half-year operating profits. Shares in retailer JJB Sports tumbled 19 ...

AILING sportswear firm JJB Sports was saved from going into administration today after landlords backed crucial changes to the terms of its leases. Landlords and creditors of Wigan-based JJB voted ...

- a footwear chain with 13 stores. A JJB spokeswoman said the two chains employ 270 full-time staff and 530 part-time employees. JJB has been reviewing its options for the lifestyle division for some ...

Former JJB Sports chief executive Christopher Ronnie, 52, was jailed for four years at London's Southwark Crown Court today for pocketing £1 million in a 'very greedy fraud'. Ronnie, of Wilmslow, ...

JJB Sports hopes investment by US company Dick's Sporting Goods will reverse its fortunes (Reuters / David Moir) US Retailer Dick's Sporting Goods has agreed a £20m investment in the UK's struggling ...

David Whelan, the manager of the English soccer team, Wigan Athletic, has sold his 29% stake in JJB Sports, a successful retail chain he founded. The U.K. based sports retailer announced that Whelan ...

In five years it has gone from one of the UK's largest sellers of sportswear, to a company that has now fallen into administration following mounting losses and high debt levels. A well-known brand on ...