UK: Blacks Leisure put up for sale
Author: Leonie Barrie | 7 December 2011
The UK's largest outdoor clothing and equipment retailer, Blacks Leisure Group Plc, today (7 December) said it is hoping to find a buyer for the firm or one of its brands after warning it is unlikely to raise the additional funding needed to carry out its strategic plans.
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