Take a bow Lucy White of the Daily Mail for completing nailing the "Mike Ashley to bid for Patisserie Valerie" story.
The business section of the Daily Mail splashed on the Lucy's scoop a couple of weeks ago. Below is a link to her original piece:..
HMV, Sofa.com and now Patisserie Valerie.
Those are the latest ailing retailers (of sorts) that have been linked in recent days with a potential (rescue?) bid from maverick entrepreneur Mike Ashley, who also owns Newcastle United Football Club.
Indeed, below is a link to yesterday's piece in the Daily Mail about Ashley's interest in the collapsed coffee shop chain...
Betaville was intrigued to read yesterday in The Times that David Scott, founder of coffee chain Druckers, is planning to buy ailing Patisserie Valerie out of administration.
Mr Scott even told The Daily Telegraph, my former employer, he "has lined up advisers and will make a bid for most of the remaining 122 outlets," adding “nobody else knows this business as well as me - I know the whole thing backwards"...