Credibility for Moores after England beat India to level July 31, 2014 HEAD COACH Peter Moores believes the manner of England’s victory gives credibility to his methods after the hosts polished off India yesterday to win the third Test at Southampton in convincing style. England secured the six wickets required to end their 10-match losing streak, routing the tourists by 266 runs and levelling the series as [...]
Fragapane and Whitlock claim third golds each July 31, 2014 GYMNASTS Max Whitlock and Claudia Fragapane both won their third gold medals of Glasgow 2014 yesterday as England consolidated their place at the top of the Commonwealth Games leaderboard. Rebecca Downie added the Commonwealth title to her European crown by taking first place in the uneven bars. With gold medals already secured in the all-around [...]
Dier for Spurs as Rose stays July 31, 2014 TOTTENHAM Hotspur have agreed a deal to sign England Under-21 defender Eric Dier from Sporting Lisbon for a fee in the region of £4m, subject to a medical. The 20-year-old came through the ranks at the Primeira Liga side after relocating to Portugal with his family aged 10, joining the Sporting academy and going on [...]
Dowsett turns Tour de France anger into gold July 31, 2014 RESURGENT cyclist Alex Dowsett insisted his time trial gold at the Commonwealth Games yesterday was inevitable after wrestling with the agony of missing out on Tour de France selection. The 25-year-old trailed Australian Rohan Dennis by 5.92 seconds after the middle section of the 38.4km course before storming back to win by 9.30. England’s Dowsett, [...]
What does The Engine Group do? July 30, 2014 ■ Nestled in offices behind Oxford Circus, the Engine Group describes itself as an integrated marketing communications group, which owns ad agency WCRS, PR group MHP Communications, digital shop Jam and direct marketing specialist partners Andrews Aldridge, among others. ■ Engine’s UK chief executive, Debbie Klein, stressed that the group would retain its independence after [...]
Diageo likes Facebook’s Nicola Mendelsohn July 30, 2014 DRINKS giant Diageo has bolstered its digital marketing expertise by appointing Facebook’s vice-president of Europe, Middle East and Africa to its board. Nicola Mendelsohn will join as a non-executive director at the beginning of September. She joined Facebook last year from Karmarama advertising agency.
Funeral group Dignity’s quiet first half of 2014 keeps revenue and profit flat July 30, 2014 Funeral services group Dignity yesterday reported revenue in the six months to 27 June 2014 was the same at £133.1m with pre-tax profit down by £500,000 to £31.5m. The Sutton Coldfield-based firm, which arranged the 1965 state funeral of Winston Churchill, also reported that operating profit was up by £600,000 to £44.8m. Dignity said the [...]
Best of the Brokers for 31 July 2014 July 30, 2014 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com HISCOX Numis has downgraded to “hold” from “Add”, and cut the target price to 710p from 785p. The broker believes good growth in high quality specialist lines validated the company’s strategy continually to build out this side of the business, but cut to [...]
London Report: Argentina, US and Russia fears weigh on FTSE July 30, 2014 FEARS yesterday over Russian sanctions and an Argentinian default, as well as concerns that good GDP figures from the US might push up interest rates brought the FTSE lower. London’s blue chip index ended the day on 6773.44 points, 0.5 per cent, or 34.31 points, lower. Among the gainers, Barclays jumped 4.2 per cent to [...]
New York Report: Wall Street dips despite good growth figures July 30, 2014 US STOCKS closed mixed yesterday as the Dow gave back early gains despite reports that economic growth rebounded sharply in the second quarter and the labour market continued to show signs of improvement. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 31 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 16,880, while the S&P 500 index closed little changed [...]
