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AO World PLC

  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: Company chiefs rush to sell shares

    £655mn in board members’ stakes sold in the past three months

    An AO World home delivery
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    LexFrasers Group
    Mike Ashley’s Frasers goes from cheap stores to cheap valuation Premium content

    The group is one of the sector’s top performers partly because of its ability to learn from mistakes

    Mike Ashley
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin sells £10mn of shares

    Pub chain’s sales growth continues to outstrip the rest of the market

    JD Wetherspoon pub in Harrogate, Yorkshire
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: CRH non-executive invests £1.9mn

    Shares have risen 65 per cent in the past year

    Construction of luxury hotel in Austin, Texas, with materials supplied by CRH
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Frasers Group
    UK sportswear group Frasers buys stake in AO World

    Investment aims to drive growth following 2 years of talks

    Frasers’ majority owner Mike Ashley
  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    Electricals retailer AO boosts profit guidance

    UK group says it has benefited from change of strategy to focus on profitability rather than sales growth

    An AO.com truck outside a distribution centre
  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    AO upgrades outlook despite widening losses

    Online electrical retailer says cost cuts have started to benefit the business

    An AO sign
  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: On the Beach boss buys as consumer confidence wanes

    Holiday group’s shares down 65 per cent in the past year

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Electrical retailer AO World swings to loss as costs mount and demand weakens

    UK-listed online group blames driver shortages and supply chain inefficiencies

    A truck is pictured outside the AO distribution centre in Crewe, Cheshire, UK
  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Jonathan Eley
    AO World pressure heralds a different kind of retail crisis

    Online electricals retailer to focus on profitability in its core UK market

    AO World delivery truck,
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    AO World plans £40mn capital raise after sharp share price fall

    Digital white goods retailer moves to shore up liquidity as inflationary pressures hit

    An AO World truck in Basingstoke, southern England
  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    AO World warns on revenues as supply chain disruption crimps growth

    Shares slide as online retailer signals hit from product shortages, transport costs and inflation

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    AO World shares plunge as driver shortages hit trading

    Electronics group also cites fierce competition from online giants as reason for weak performance

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    City Bulletin
    Driver shortages and supply chain disruption hold back revenues at AO World Premium content

    Investment bank fees surge past $100bn and Goldman pulls free ice-creams

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    LexEquities
    Earnings beats: lukewarm reaction shows prices are stretched Premium content

    Cosmetics, online white goods and banks see shares slip

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    LombardBryce Elder
    Jam tomorrow still applies for brave new AO World

    Costs take shine off the online retail boom; Premier Foods takes cakes to the States

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Electricals retailer AO World’s sales boom in UK and Germany

    Shares hit as pandemic prompts higher costs even as German business turns a profit

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    LexUK retail industry
    Pandemic winners: a shout for sprouts Premium content

    Furloughed workers and nixed holidays have turned traditionally dull fare into green shoots of recovery

    Online sales at DIY chain Kingfisher jumped during the first set of lockdowns in England in March
  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Pets at Home Group PLC
    Pets at Home and AO World boosted by lockdown sales

    Petcare chain upgrades earnings forecast and electricals group receives online shopping lift

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    AO World swings to profit during pandemic ecommerce boom

    Electricals retailer says it has been ‘a half year like no other’

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    Lex
    AO World: online shine Premium content

    Investors should wait for prices to drop before stocking up

    The white goods and electronics retailer has guided for a 57% increase in half-year revenues to £715m when it reports next month
  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    LombardKate Burgess
    ‘Lapdog’ auditors ain’t quite right again

    Watchdog takes firms to task in quality review; AO hits long awaited high during lockdown

  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2019
    AO World ditches Dutch arm to focus on UK and Germany

    Shares jump 13% as online electrical goods retailer pulls out of Netherlands

    AO founder John Roberts: 'The blunt truth is that we made mistakes in Germany'
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    AO World suffers widening losses in Europe

    Shares slide on German woes but online electricals retailer reassures on UK growth

    19th September 2018 Picture by Charlie Bibby/Financial Times Photograph shows John Roberts, founder of AO World. For How to Lead column.
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Who wants to be a landlord to Mike Ashley or Philip Green?

    New Intu chief gets to enjoy what many consider the job from hell

    Matthew Roberts Chief Executive of Intu with effect from Monday 29 April 2019
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