Fishing is big business. Forget football, golf, gardening or DIY - stats show that angling is this nation’s number one pastime, with three million people spending more than £3 billion a year. For ...

(Sharecast News) - Angling Direct has raised £20m from investors in order to fund its continued expansion both instore and online, potentially via mergers and acquisitions.Britain's largest fishing ...

Overview: Angling Direct PLC, along with its subsidiaries, sells fishing tackle products and equipment in the United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally, with a market cap of £38.70 million.

A fishing equipment retailer has bought one of the largest specialist tackle stores in Europe in a £3m deal. Angling Direct, which is based on the Rackheath Industrial Estate, has acquired Fosters ...

Angling Direct has purchased Erics Angling Centre, which has two stores in Buckinghamshire and Leeds. Erics has been operating for almost 30 years. Alongside stores, online and mail order operations ...

The Norwich-based firm has bought North West Angling Centre, near Wigan, and Tacklesaver, near Manchester, in a deal worth £450,000 – around 3.5 times annual profits, the company said. The two ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Making new friends has never been high up the list of reasons to go fishing. Angling, with its implicit social ...