# Damaged Goods

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- Book: [Damaged Goods](https://www.bookquiver.com/oliver-shah/damaged-goods) ([Damaged Goods.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/oliver-shah/damaged-goods.md))
- Authors: [Oliver Shah](https://www.bookquiver.com/oliver-shah)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4134-126-1
- Published: 2018-06-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In March 2015, British businessman and the chairman of Arcadia Group Sir Philip Green sold BHS for £1 to Retail Acquisitions, owned by Dominic Chappell, a serial bankrupt who filed BHS for administration shortly after. By April 2016, BHS had debts of £1.3bn, including a pensions deficit of £571m. Damaged Goods follows Green's journey to the big time, the sale of BHS and the subsequent investigation that concluded with Green paying £363m to the Pensions Regulator. In Damaged Goods , Oliver Shah, the award-winning journalist who first broke the story, shines a light on Green's past and Arcadia's uncertain future; this is the extraordinary account of the retail magnate Sir Philip Green's life and his relationship with the high street.