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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Mike Ashley’s Frasers in talks to buy Savile Row tailor Gieves & Hawkes

Gieves & Hawkes
Gieves & Hawkes’ most recent owner was was Trinity, a tailor founded in the 1960s in Hong Kong. Photograph: Adrian Lourie/Alamy

Mike Ashley’s retail empire is in advanced talks to take over Gieves & Hawkes, one of London’s oldest bespoke tailors on Savile Row.

Frasers Group, of which Ashley is majority owner, is in talks to buy the brand, which was put up for sale earlier this year after the collapse of its Hong Kong-based owner.

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