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Best of 2023: Is private equity ownership slowly killing retail?

Retail Gazette

The funding structure works by leveraging finance which, more often than not, results in firms borrowing money against the retailer’s balance sheet – in turn generating debt – to use for investment. But why is private equity so controversial? “This sort of stuff goes on quietly behind the scenes,” explains Hood.

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

Potts joined the supermarket in 2015 after almost four decades at Tesco, where he started on the shop floor aged 16 and rose through the ranks to run its Asian operations. Mark Price With John Lewis in peril, could we see Lord Mark Price return to the Partnership? Sound familiar?