JD Sports exploring equity raise

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By Sam Kerr
26 Jan 2021

JD Sports, the UK sporting equipment retailer, is looking at the possibility of raising equity capital to help it through the next few months of Covid-19 lockdowns and to take advantage of investment opportunities in the future.

The FTSE 100 firm said in a filing on Tuesday that it is “exploring additional funding options with a view to increasing its flexibility to invest in future strategic opportunities and that this may involve a non pre-emptive equity placing.”

Given JD Sports' ...

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