The family owners of Selfridges are in final talks to sell the luxury department store group to a Thai conglomerate for an estimated £4bn.
Central Retail group, which already owns upmarket department stores in Italy, Germany and Denmark via a division run by the former Selfridges boss Vittorio Radice, is expected to finalise a deal before the end of the year.
The group began with one store in Bangkok by Tiang Chirathivat in the 1950s and last year listed part of the business on the Thai stock
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