CASH DELIVERY July 26, 2009 Ocado, the online grocer, is close to completing its seventh fundraising for £40m, with the backing of Tetra Pak billionaire Jorn Rausing. The firm , valued by some at around £600m, is still to make a profit, but is planning on a stock market flotation in the next eighteen months to fund an international expansion. [...]
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 [...]
Now it’s my turn to slay the Aussies July 7, 2009 WHO could forget it? It was Sunday 7 August 2005, Australia needed just two runs to win the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston, England needed a solitary wicket. Steve Harmison thunders down to the crease, batsman Michael Kasprowicz gets the faintest of edges and Geraint Jones dives to his left to take the catch. The [...]