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Court Admits Wadia’s Defamation UK’s Retail Trouble HURTING HOLIDAY SPIRIT
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Case Against Ratan Tata, Others Spreads Online, Too
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Wadia, a board member
dings fame him and malign his reputation,” Asos plunges 40%, drags down other online retailers
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of some Tata cos then, one of them said. “Wadia had challeng-
yed,” ed the dependence of the board and was like Boohoo, Zalando and store operators like Next
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was accused of acting in not in any way Cyrus Mistry supporter.
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concert with Cyrus Mistry uld discuss the case raised by the prin-
cipal shareholder,” the person said. A Big Blow
Wadia was an independent director Europe’s retail apocalypse is spreading from
umer Our Bureau on Tata Steel for over 38 years after be- brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce as Asos Asos competes
r not ing appointed by JRD Tata. plunged the most in four-and-a-half years after with the likes
of Amazon in
on to Mumbai: A local court in Mumbai has Wadia had appeared before the chief warning that Christmas shopping got off to a
the UK
that admitted industrialist Nusli Wadia’s metropolitan magistrate earlier this disastrous start.
t was criminal defamation case against Ra- month to substantiate his case. The gloomy update from a UK online retailer Its performance shows that
ility. tan Tata and 10 board members of Tata The criminal process cited that Wadia that competes with Amazon and has furnished
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