Penguin Sound presents Damaged Goods written and go through by Oliver Shah.

‘From the glitzy parties to the threatening calls, the larger-than-life characters towards the speedy downfall, this real-life tale of hubris offers all the elements of a Greek tragedy’ Town AM

‘Some stupid f*cking publication’ Sir Philip Green

A STORY OF CORRUPTION, EGO, GREED – AND ONE TERRIBLE MISJUDGMENT. Within this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the reality behind one of Britain’s biggest business scandals, pursuing about Damaged Products: The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green (The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller) Sir Philip Green’s trip to the big time, the wild excesses of his heyday and his dramatic demise.

Sir Philip Green was once hailed among Britain’s best entrepreneurs. As chairman of Arcadia Group, house to brands such as for example Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, Green experienced prime ministers and supermodels on acceleration dial. However the retail magnate’s status came crashing down when Shah, a Sunday Occasions journalist, uncovered the methods Green utilized to amass his gigantic just offshore fortune, as well as the desperation that drove his doomed BHS offer.

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 proceeded to go under in Apr 2016, BHS got debts of £1.3bn, including a pension deficit of £571m. Its collapse left 11,000 employees without jobs and 20,000 pension account members facing the loss of their benefits, prompting the federal government to release an inquiry into Green’s sale of the business. While one of Britain’s oldest department stores boarded up its store fronts, former employees and consumers protested in the roads and MPs rallied in parliament, demanding Green be stripped of his knighthood. The furore over the sale subsided in 2017 when Green decided a £363m deal with the Pensions Regulator, but with revelations surrounding Topshop’s pension deficit right now surfacing, could tragedy strike again?

Oliver Shah may be 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 the Press Honours and London Press Club Honours in 2017 for his analysis into Sir Philip Green. Shah examined English at Cambridge University or college and journalism at City University before signing up for City AM in ’09 2009 as well as the Weekend Times in 2010 2010. Aged 34, Shah lives in east London.