Demand for luxury goods aids Burberry October 14, 2009 Luxury fashion retailer Burberry yesterday smashed City forecasts as shoppers rushed to get this season’s latest handbags and accessories. Burberry reported revenue of £343m in the three months ended 30 September, down five per cent at constant currencies, but ahead of analyst forecasts of £320m to £335m. Chief financial officer Stacey Cartwright said the group [...]
The Gulf states need to become a marketplace October 5, 2009 LAST week, I found myself in Doha with the man who brought us JK Rowling’s Harry Potter, Nigel Newton, the chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing. He was in town to launch qfinance.com, a website focused on serving finance professionals in Qatar, in a joint venture with the Qatar Finance Authority. There, in a sea of [...]
Hogwarts? It’s Hollyoaks with broomsticks July 16, 2009 FilmHARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCECert: 12A AT THE START of the Harry Potter franchise, the films were fun. They were joyful affairs, full of the sweetness of JK Rowling’s imagination and the spirit of inventiveness that seemed to suffuse everything, from quidditch games to Diagon Alley. Even with Death Eaters, basilisks and dark lords [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS July 2, 2009 FILMICE AGE 3 More animated, prehistoric fun to help the holiday season fly by. RED MIST Hopeless horror schlock about a sicko in a coma manipulating others into murder. STRAWBERRY & CHOCOLATE Re-release of charming Cuban drama set just prior to the revolution. DVDMARLEY & ME Comedy about a man and his dog, with Owen [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 1, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES SCRAPPAGE INCENTIVES REVIVE CAR DEMAND Car sales rose in several big European and Asian markets last month, lifted largely by government scrapping incentives aimed at reviving consumer demand. The numbers give weight to the notion that stimulus measures are pulling the global motor industry out of its deep downturn, but carmakers and industry [...]
SLUMDOG MILLIONS FOR CINEWORLD July 1, 2009 CINEWORLD, the cinema chain, said yesterday it saw healthy trading in the first six months of the year with revenues up 16.5 per cent on the back of a string of blockbusters, including runaway success Slumdog Millionaire, which grossed over £31m in the UK and Ireland. The firm said the rest of the year looks [...]
Bollywood Godfather takes on Hollywood July 8, 2008 Anusha Bradley talks to the boss of Eros, the media mogul bent on profiting from the silver screen It goes without saying: Kishore Lulla loves movies. “Indian or Hollywood, I love watching them all. Whether it’s Spiderman, Harry Potter, Shawshank Redemption, or The Godfather – I love the Godfather – they give me a lot [...]
Amazon’s ebbs and flows October 27, 2005 The dotcom giant is at the forefront of growth in the online retail industry. Its sales have just kept on growing, hitting $1bn in America and Canada. But yet its share price has taken a tumble this week. Wall Street is always falling in and out of love with Amazon. In the online retailer’s 10-year [...]