24 Quotes by Richard Ratner

We still worry about next year, with fierce competition at the value end of the market, and...still look for a ceiling of around 800 million pounds on (fiscal year profits).

Unless it has fifty per cent off or more, it is not selling.

New Look has gone well since going private, although it could be argued that perhaps it is doing rather too much at once.

Given the importance of Per Una to M&S, it could have been disastrous had this happened at the current time. Even so, we wonder how long the agreement will last.

He has done extremely well, let's not take that away from him.

I suspect at the end of the day he would have liked to have bought it but with all the hedge funds in there that he wasn't prepared to pay, given trading, a huge amount for it.

It appears done and dusted. Our view is clearly to accept the offer.

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Whilst the last time it was a '24-hour wonder', we think that there may be a reasonable chance that a deal could go through this time around, but it will take time for an offer to be formulated.