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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Crystal Amber, one of the largest shareholders in JJB Sports, has made a £2.2m ($3.6m) profit by selling more ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 130 JJB Sports stores have closed down resulting in 2,200 redundancies, the company's administrators have said. KPMG confirmed Sports Direct (Frankfurt: A0MK5S - news) bought just 20 of the ...

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.

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 ...

JJB boss Whelan is notoriously anti-union and pro-poverty. His own personal fortune of £200 million is creamed from the low wages of his own staff. In 1997 workers forced JJB to increase wages. In ...

Around 2,200 staff at JJB Sports were made redundant today after administrators closed 133 stores and agreed to sell 20 remaining outlets to Mike Ashley's Sports Direct International. The Sports World ...