Damaged Goods: The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green (The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller) Audiobook (Free)

Penguin Sound presents Damaged Goods written and browse by Oliver Shah.

‘From the glitzy parties towards the threatening phone calls, the larger-than-life characters towards the fast downfall, this real-life story of hubris offers all the components of a Greek tragedy’ Town AM

‘Some stupid f*cking publication’ Sir Philip Green

A STORY OF Problem, EGO, GREED – AND ONE TERRIBLE MISJUDGMENT. In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind among Britain’s biggest business scandals, following about Damaged Goods: The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green (The Weekend Times Top 10 10 Bestseller) Sir Philip Green’s trip to the big style, the outrageous excesses of his heyday and his dramatic demise.

Sir Philip Green was once hailed among Britain’s best businessmen. As chairman of Arcadia Group, house to brands such as Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, Green got leading ministers and supermodels on swiftness dial. But the retail magnate’s status came crashing down when Shah, a Sunday Times journalist, uncovered the techniques Green used to amass his gigantic offshore fortune, as well as the desperation that drove his doomed BHS deal.

In 2015, Green sold British Home Stores for £1 to Retail Acquisitions, owned by Dominic Chappell, a charlatan who siphoned off BHS’s remaining millions before filing for administration. By the time it went under in April 2016, BHS had bills of £1.3bn, including a pension deficit of £571m. Its collapse left 11,000 workers without careers and 20,000 pension finance members facing the increased loss of their benefits, prompting the federal government to launch an inquiry into Green’s sale of the company. While one of Britain’s oldest shops boarded up its shop fronts, former workers and customers protested in the streets and MPs rallied in parliament, challenging Green be stripped of his knighthood. The furore on the sale subsided in 2017 when Green agreed a £363m deal with the Pensions Regulator, but with revelations surrounding Topshop’s pension deficit now surfacing, could tragedy hit again?

Oliver Shah is the award-winning Business Editor from the Weekend Times and perhaps one of the most respected national commentators on business as well as the high street. He was called business journalist of the entire year at both Press Awards and London Press Membership Awards in 2017 for his investigation into Sir Philip Green. Shah analyzed English at Cambridge College or university and journalism at Town University before signing up for City AM in 2009 2009 as well as the Sunday Times this year 2010. Aged 34, Shah lives in east London.