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Myer will emerge as a fashion heavyweight with more than $4bn in annual sales through a deal to buy five brands including Just Jeans from Premier Investments.

After more than a decade stalking, playing and pressuring Myer, the $864m deal means retail billionaire Solomon Lew has finally reached his end game, as Eric Johnston writes.

Elsewhere, Mineral Resources has rejected claims it may have breached ASX rules around market disclosures over the tax scandal involving its managing director Chris Ellison.