Ian Guider: Mystery bidder’s Selfridges offer is a £4bn bet on the high street
The approach for the group, which includes Brown Thomas and Arnotts, comes at a critical time for retail, and for our city centres
What will be the next chapter in the history of the Weston family-owned Selfridges department store and its Irish siblings Brown Thomas and Arnotts?
The founder of the Oxford Street Selfridges store has already been the subject of a long-running television drama. Arnotts can trace its roots back almost 180 years, although its more recent history will form part of the chronicles of the Celtic Tiger and a battle between property developers, before it became ...