April 2008 Arcticgroup Aurum Goldsmiths Mappin & Webb Watches of Switzerland Booker Group - sold June 2008. Scandinavian Design & Retail Steinunn Matthew Williamson Day Birger et Mikkelsen Souk eCommera Saks French Connection Iceland supermarket Wyevale Garden Centres Hamleys Magasin du Nord department store (83% with Straumur Investment Bank and B2B Holdings) Visual Communications Group Illum department store Jane Norman - bought 29 July 2007 for £117m; filed for bankruptcy administration 27 June 2011 Julian Graves - sold to Holland & Barrett in September 2008. All Saints Debenhams (13%) Hagar - sold back to Johannesson family in July 2008. House of Fraser - (35%) FL Group - sold April 2008 Hjálmur - sold April 2008 Humac - sold April 2008 Merlin - sold to Árdegi in June 2007. MK One - sold to restructuring specialist Hilco in May 2008. Moss Bros - Baugur sold its 28.5% shareholding sold to Arcadia Group in November 2008 Mosaic Fashions (49%) (entered administration on 2 March 2009) Newsedge - sold April 2008 Saga Film - sold April 2008 Somerfield (3%) - The Co-operative Group bought the entire Somerfield chain in July 2008. Baugur made an unsuccessful attempt to buy Somerfield in 2005 Teymi - sold April 2008 Woolworths Group plc (12.4%). Share trading suspended 26 November 2008, with retail chain Woolworths and distribution arm Entertainment UK being placed into administration. Whistles - Sold to Jane Shepherdson in January 2008 Whittard of Chelsea - Placed into administration on 23 December 2008, and subsequently sold to EPIC private equity. Woodward Foodservice - Sold to Brake Bros Ltd in August 2008 Wyndeham Press Group - Sold to Walstead Investments Limited in December 2008. Board of directors Hans Christian Hustad Hreinn Loftsson (Chairman) Gudrún Pétursdóttir (Alternate Board Member) Kristín Jóhannesdóttir Þórður Bogason (Secretary of the Board) Ingibjörg Stefanía Pálmadóttir Jóhannes Jónsson Einar Thór Sverrisson - Alternate Board Member References External links Baugur's home page Ekstrabladet article on Russian connections Financial Times article about the legal battle in Iceland Iceland Review on Baugur Financial services companies of Iceland House of Fraser Financial services companies established in 1998 1998 establishments in Iceland