OLYMPIC MEDIA BUZZ LONDON 2012 PARTNERS June 17, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games partners, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 7 June to Wednesday 14 June. The news that Samsung’s Galaxy S3 users will get [...]
Union plans walkout at Ford June 17, 2012 MEMBERS of the Unite union will this morning begin a 24-hour strike over pay and pensions at Ford. Up to 1,200 workers are expected to walk out of the carmaker’s sites in Dagenham, Bridgend, Halewood and Southampton over wages and plans to close the company’s final salary scheme to new employees. “Ford remains willing and [...]
Floating wind power project seeks EU funds June 17, 2012 INVESTORS in the world’s first floating wind turbine are seeking European Union funding to build five more off the coast of Portugal following the success of initial testing of the device. The wind power generator, which cost €20m (£16.2m), floats over deep ocean waters, unlike previous offshore wind farms built in shallow waters and attached [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 17, 2012 Cushman & Wakefield The commercial real estate services firm has announced that James Meikle will transfer from its Europe, Middle East and Africa corporate occupier and investor services team to head up occupier representation. He will specialise in advising City and Canary Wharf occupiers. Meikle previously ran Cushman & Wakefield’s office leasing business in Milan. [...]
BEST of the BROKERS June 17, 2012 DIXONS Panmure Gordon rates the electrical retailer as a “buy” with a target price of 28p ahead of results on Thursday. The brokers expects the numbers to provide support for the UK profit recovery story. AQUARIUS PLATINUM JP Morgan has downgraded the platinum produce from “neutral” to “underweight” with a target price of 63p after [...]
CELEBRATE THE CITY four days in the Square Mile 21-24 JUNE June 17, 2012 WHO knew there could be so much to explore and enjoy in one Square Mile? This week – as the Spitalfields Festival comes to a close and the 50th anniversary of the City of London Festival begins – City buildings throw open their doors to give you the chance to encounter breath-taking interiors and unrivalled [...]
Start your weekend with a bang this Thursday evening at 6pm June 17, 2012 How do you celebrate something as multifaceted as the City of London? It is a place of contradictions: both a glass-fronted metropolis and a cluster of stone relics, stubborn and robust. It throngs with people of all nationalities and hums with activity that is at once local and global. Crammed into a single square mile [...]
Four days of open doors and hidden treasures June 17, 2012 WALKING around at street level, you only glimpse a fraction of the City. For the most part, it operates and exists behind closed doors and, at close to 2,000 years old, it has its fair share of stories and secrets tucked away. “There is an enormous amount going on under the radar in the City [...]
Champagne sunset Friday night at Tower Bridge June 17, 2012 THE CITY is magical at night,” says Stella Ioannou, Project Director of Celebrate the City. She’s right, of course. The London skyline is among the most recognisable anywhere in the world and its finest rooftops and spires – from the dome of St Paul’s to the tip of the Gherkin – are clustered in and [...]
Bring the family to the Cheapside Fayre on Saturday June 17, 2012 WHEN people talk of cities as playgrounds, they tend not to be thinking about swings and roundabouts, but bars, restaurants and the like. It’s not exactly child-friendly. However, families are at the heart of Celebrate the City and a significant proportion of the festival programme has been built with them in mind. “When it comes [...]