Mike Ashley, the insatiable controlling shareholder of Sports Direct International,...

2019-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Mike Ashley, the insatiable controlling shareholder of Sports Direct International, is said to have made an offer for the acquisition of HMV, a financially weak chain of 125 music stores in the U.K.

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