Dunelm share price climbs as furniture chain announces acquisition of pillow firm Fogarty October 8, 2015 Shares at Dunelm climbed higher yesterday after the furniture chain announced a rise in first quarter sales and announced it has acquired 200-year-old pillow group Fogarty. The FTSE 250 homeware retailer, which sells everything from curtains to bed linen, said like-for-like sales rose by 4.4 per cent to £171.8m in the three months to 3 October. [...]
City Moves for 09 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 8, 2015 KNIGHT FRANK The property consultancy has announced the appointment of Rob Macnab as partner in its City leasing team. He joins from Kinney Green, where he was an equity partner specialising in the midtown office market. Macnab has worked for clients including O&H Group, Aberdeen Asset Management and DTZ IM. AXA INVESTMENT MANAGERS Tom Clapham [...]
Galliford Try share price rises as it wins contract for Luton and Dunstable University Hospital October 8, 2015 Galliford Try has stepped up its presence in the healthcare market after winning a contract to help with the £150m redevelopment of Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. The company's share price closed up by 1.01 per cent following the announcement. The housebuilder and construction group said has been appointed as preferred supply chain partner under ProCure [...]
Netflix share price jumps after reports that the company is hiking its prices October 8, 2015 Streaming giant Netflix is reportedly raising the price of its streaming subscription by $1, reports Bloomberg. This will put the company's most popular subscription plan at $9.99 a month. The move, which will affect new customers in the US, Canada and parts of Latin America, follows on a similar hike in Europe, where prices were [...]
Tesco share price rises as bosses dip into their pockets and buy stake in troubled supermarket chain October 8, 2015 Tesco's board have thrown their support behind the embattled supermarket group by buying nearly half a million pounds worth of shares. Chief executive Dave Lewis has spent £200,000 of his own cash to buy his first 99,950 shares in the grocer. Non-executive directors Richard Cousins and Mikael Olsson have also invested in the business for the [...]
Volkswagen US boss Michael Horn apologies for emissions scandal and confirms three staff suspended October 8, 2015 Volkswagen’s US chief executive Michael Horn has apologised to US lawmakers over the emissions cheating scandal that has rocked the industry. He also confirmed media reports that three people at the company had been suspended. “On behalf of our company, and my colleagues in Germany, I would like to offer a sincere apology for Volkswagen’s [...]
Etsy share price falls as Amazon comes over all hipster and launches Amazon Handmade October 8, 2015 Amazon has just done the corporate equivalent of growing a beard and getting a tattoo sleeve, after it announced the launch of Handmade at Amazon, an online marketplace for "genuinely handmade items". Sound familiar? That's because it's already been done – by Etsy, the US e-commerce site which launched a $3.5bn (£2.3bn) IPO in April. [...]
M&G and Schroders among fund managers said to be thinking of quitting the Investment Association October 8, 2015 Several of the UK's largest fund managers are thinking of quitting the industry's biggest trade body, the Investment Association. M&G Investments and Schroders are set to quit the group, according to Sky News, which also reported that Fidelity Investments, Aberdeen Asset Management and Invesco Perpetual are looking at ending their connections with the association. Between [...]
Canadian pensions giant Omers moving into the Cheesegrater October 8, 2015 Omers, one of Canada’s largest pension funds, is moving into the City’s Cheesegrater skyscraper, which is owned by the company’s real estate arm Oxford Property and British Land. The company said yesterday it plans to make the 225-metre tower, formally known as the Leadenhall Building, its European headquarters after taking up 25,000 square feet [...]
Regency Hotel to become DoubleTree by Hilton after Crimson Hotels buys it for over £100m October 8, 2015 Crimson Hotels said yesterday it has bought the Regency Hotel in Kensington for more than £100m and struck a deal with Hilton to convert it to a DoubleTree by Hilton London brand. The hotel will be Crimson’s fourth under the DoubleTree brand after signing a franchise deal with the US hotelier last year. [...]