Tesco targets Walkie Talkie workers September 1, 2014 Tesco launched a new flagship store next to the City’s iconic Walkie Talkie building yesterday, in a bid to capitalise on an expected 8,000 thousand-strong workforce set to take over the building. The store, which houses a new Tesco-backed brand Fred’s Food Construction, is based on a New York style deli counter.
Satchel brand gets third shop September 1, 2014 THE CAMBRIDGE Satchel Company is opening a six-storey flagship shop in Covent Garden after receiving £12m funding from Index Ventures earlier this year. The traditional-style satchel company, which founder Julie Deane started as a kitchen sink venture in 2008, now has a turnover of around £15m. The new store, the second in London, will open [...]
Kier wins £50m contract to build luxury high-rises in Greenwich September 1, 2014 HOUSEBUILDER Kier has picked up a £50m contract to build luxury apartments at London’s Greenwich Peninsula development. Kier will design and build 224 luxury apartments in four blocks on the Thames riverside as part of the area’s regeneration project to deliver 10,000 homes by 2039. Kier was chosen as the preferred bidder for the contract [...]
Chariot Oil and Gas aims to shimmer with placement September 1, 2014 Chariot Oil and Gas hopes to have a sparking future after more shares were bought by Westward Investments Limited, which includes as a beneficiary Adonis Pouroulis, founder of Petra Diamonds and Chariot. With Petra owning the Cullinan mine, source of the largest diamond ever, Chariot will hope to get a shine as it hunts “black [...]
Uni Baggage’s luxury travel service rescues wealthy students from transport woe September 1, 2014 The young plutocrats, Britain’s last persecuted minority, can find life at university hard – set upon by lefty lecturers, student unions and worst of all, their state-schooled peers. Not only are the children of the UK’s elite forced to share quarters with young people who may have only accessed their places through merit – [...]
Will Ecuador ditch the dollar for its own bitcoin? September 1, 2014 Ecuador is launching its first digital currency, backed by the country’s central bank, supposedly as a way to help poorer people who haven’t previously been able to access traditional banking. The nameless crypto-currency will come into use in December and could mean that the country might drop the US dollar – the currency Ecuador introduced [...]
Miner Nyrstar to raise €600m for global upgrade September 1, 2014 Leading global mining and smelting company Nyrstar said yesterday that it intends to raise €600m (£474m) as part of a strategic financing plan, as it looks to pay down debt and invest in improving infrastructure including smelting facilities. The €600m raised will be divided between a €350m senior unsecured note offer to institutional investors, and [...]
Heineken clinches Mexican can and bottle maker sale for $1.2bn September 1, 2014 Dutch brewer Heineken has agreed to sell its Mexican packaging business Empaque to Crown for $1.23bn (£739m) including debt, shedding a non-core business it acquired when entering the Mexican market in 2010. The world’s third-largest beer maker said yesterday the sale would allow it to focus resources on brewing and marketing its lagers, ales and [...]
Monitise’s information chief walks out after share price boom September 1, 2014 Mobile transactions firm Monitise yesterday announced the surprise departure of its information chief with immediate effect. Monitise, whose shares soared 13.2 per cent last Wednesday after the mobile banking and payments firm announced a deeper alliance with business giant IBM, said Mike Keyworth would remain a technology adviser to the firm. Shares fell 1.5 per [...]
Samsung merges shipbuilding and engineering in restructuring September 1, 2014 Samsung announced yesterday a major merger of its shipbuilding and engineering divisions, as the conglomerate pursues a restructuring of its business. Samsung, best known for its electronics division, was hit in May by the hospitalisation of Lee Kun-hee, the group’s chairman and patriarch of the billionaire Lee family behind Samsung, prompting succession considerations to rise. [...]