{"id":155688,"date":"2020-08-09T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/09\/mike-ashleys-results-will-be-gripping-but-probably-not-in-a-good-way\/"},"modified":"2020-08-09T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:01:04","slug":"mike-ashleys-results-will-be-gripping-but-probably-not-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=155688","title":{"rendered":"Mike Ashley\u2019s results will be gripping, but probably not in a good way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last year\u2019s \u2018shambles\u2019, Frasers Group has a new auditor, but 2020 has not been kind, even to less exciting retailersCan the annual results of Frasers Group, sportswear baron Mike Ashley\u2019s retail empire, be any more exciting than last year\u2019s? This time in 2019, when Ashley\u2019s business was better known as Sports Direct, several putative deadlines for the figures\u2019 publication came and went throughout the day. In the end the figures were published a mere 10 hours late \u2013 and after the stock exchange had closed. As one analyst put it, it was a \u201ctotal and utter shambles\u201d \u2013 and that is before we get to their contents. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/aug\/09\/frasers-group-mike-ashley-results-retailing-lockdown\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Ashley\u2019s results will be gripping, but probably not in a good way<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last year\u2019s \u2018shambles\u2019, Frasers Group has a new auditor, but 2020 has not been kind, even to less exciting retailersCan the annual results of Frasers Group, sportswear baron Mike Ashley\u2019s retail empire, be any more exciting than last year\u2019s? This time in 2019, when Ashley\u2019s business was better known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}