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Damaged Goods

By: Oliver Shah
Narrated by: Oliver Shah
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Penguin Audio presents Damaged Goods, by Oliver Shah.

In March 2015, British businessman and the chairman of Arcadia Group Sir Philip Green sold BHS for £1 to Retail Acquisitions, owned by Dominic Chappell, a serial bankrupt who filed BHS for administration shortly after. By April 2016, BHS had debts of £1.3bn, including a pensions deficit of £571m.

Damaged Goods follows Green's journey to the big time, the sale of BHS and the subsequent investigation that concluded with Green paying £363m to the Pensions Regulator.

In Damaged Goods, Oliver Shah, the award-winning journalist who first broke the story, shines a light on Green's past and Arcadia's uncertain future; this is the extraordinary account of the retail magnate Sir Philip Green's life and his relationship with the high street.

©2018 Oliver Shah (P)2018 Penguin Audio Business Business Ethics Corruption & Misconduct Entertainment & Celebrities Politics & Government Professionals & Academics Workplace & Organisational Behavior Celebrity Inspiring Thought-Provoking Banking

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OMG... this is a fabulous book for anyone interested in the ins and outs of the City. So much detail but told in a very easy to listen to style. Love him or hate him Green has had an amazing life. Shah actually gives a not unsympathetic narrative about a man who is clearly deeply flawed as a human being but is like we all are a mix of good and bad. If you are offended by lots of expletives then avoid the book as Green seems to use the F Word as others would use a full stop in most sentences... riveting read...

OMG outstanding book

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Oliver Shah is very good. This is a very interesting book and would love to know how accurate it is. The entire book is thorough and compelling.

Interesting and well produced

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Story of greed and the many lives ruined by Sir Philip Green due to collapse of BHS.

Eye opening must read for anyone in finance

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This is a remarkable story of greed, and how the U.K.’s London based economy has worked over the past two decades. Lawyers, accountants, merchant bankers all deserve as much disapproval as Green’s methods and the fantasist Dominic Chappell he was so keen to pass the business to. Quite a listen, and together with the excellent Bad Blood a real indictment of vanity, corruption and a form of Capitalism that has run out of control.

Compelling

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Wow!
I didn’t realise half of what went on in retail.
Amazed to hear that bankers, politicians and fraudsters go hand in hand.
Thinking long and hard, after listening to this superbly written and narrated book, whether to cash in my private pension now too!
Highly recommend!

Fantastic book!

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