On women, work and savoir faire October 25, 2009 MEETING the author of French Women Don’t Get Fat, the bestselling diet book, is a rather daunting prospect for someone who is neither particularly thin nor remotely French – certainly not when it comes to Gallic standards of stylishness. I expected Mireille Guiliano to be scary – judgmental, fearfully immaculate and devastatingly tiny. I was [...]
We find the City thrilling and we know you do too October 22, 2009 BUSINESS is exciting: the cut and thrust of a huge deal; the terror when things start to unravel; the knowledge that agreements made in a Square Mile office have global implications. That’s why we’ve always believed that business news should reflect this, that it should be punchy, brash, colourful and loud. We find it thrilling [...]
The tributes pour in as City A.M. gets to 1,000 October 22, 2009 GORDON BROWNPrime Minister“Congratulations to City A.M. on reaching a thousand editions. Your paper has kept both Westminster and the City informed at a time of great turbulence in the world economy.” SIR VICTOR BLANKFormer chairman, Lloyds Banking“City A.M. has developed into a quality newspaper which sparks boardroom debate with its insight and analysis. It is [...]
The City’s biggest names read City A.M. every day October 22, 2009 SIR RICHARD BRANSONVirgin“Well done to the team at City A.M. on reaching your 1,000th edition – it is an impressive achievement in an industry almost as tough as the airline one.” AMANDA STAVELEYCEO, PCP“Well done City A.M. on reaching this important milestone. Whenever I’m in the UK I try to see a copy. You report [...]
We’re never afraid to blaze a trail October 22, 2009 City A.M. has broken some of the biggest business stories since we launched, moving markets, forcing companies to reveal their intentions before they would have liked and causing rows in the corridors of the Bank of England and the Treasury. Here we remember a few of our best. THE TAX EXODUS BEGINSBack in April 2008, [...]
Gossip, intrigue and a whole lot of City fun October 22, 2009 OUR diary page, The Capitalist, has also had its share of stories to get the City talking this year. Just last week we led the way with the coverage of Carphone Warehouse tycoon Charles Dunstone’s wedding, revealing all the juicy details, including the fact that Jools Holland had been lined up to entertain guests at [...]
BILL OF THE YEAR October 22, 2009 THE City may have been suffering this year, but if our popular Bill of the Week feature is anything to go by, opulence is certainly not dead. This little beauty – racked up in the depths of the gloom in early February – was the result of four businessmen taking their wives out for a [...]
A manifesto for a great newspaper October 22, 2009 City A.M. has a simple mission: to be the essential morning read for London’s business community. Every single working day, we aim to provide our readers with a pithy, well-edited and bang-up-to-date package of news, comment, investment advice, lifestyle and sports – and all of this entirely for free and conveniently available at transport hubs [...]
Growing our truly unique readership October 22, 2009 City A.M. is based upon the idea that print remains a competitive and efficient medium, even today. While we are planning exciting developments for our digital offering in the months ahead, we believe a great print product remains the fastest and most efficient way of providing readers with a quick and concise overview of all [...]
Four years of turbulence in business life October 22, 2009 SPONSOR’S LETTER In the four years since it was launched, City A.M. has reported on the highs and lows of a remarkably turbulent period in the business world.There has been no shortage of crises to cover and trends to examine. No-one in September 2005 would have predicted the extraordinary events in economic history that we [...]