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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Mark Banham

JD Sports sells Footasylum for £37.5 million after watchdog probe

A Footasylum outlet

(Picture: Footasylum)

High street sportswear retailer JD Sports has sold its Footasylum trainer outlet to private equity company Aurelius for £37.5 million taking more than a £50 million hit. 

The group founded on the backstreets of Manchester suburb Bolton that has now become a household name had been order to sell the business that it acquired for £90 million in 2019 by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

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