By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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Zara sees profits and jobs up

September 18, 2013

Inditex, the Spanish company that owns clothes shop Zara, has seen net sales rise six per cent to 7.7bn euros in the first half of 2013. Net profit amounted to 951m euros (£798.2m). The group has created over 10,000 jobs, refurbished and enlarge a number of flagship stores, including London's Brompton Road, and opened 95 [...]
Sotheby’s to auction former Lehman president’s collection

September 18, 2013

Auction house Sotheby's has announced it's to auction off the collection of former Lehman Brothers president Joseph Gregory. Sotheby’s is pleased to offer this October the tasteful and elegant Collection of Niki & Joe Gregory, comprising a fine group of English and Continental furniture, ceramics and decorations from their Lloyd Harbor, New York residence, [...]
Highland Gold profit plummets following sharp decline in gold prices

September 18, 2013

Mining company Highland Gold has seen a pretax profit drop of 46 per cent for the year up to the end of June. (Release) Gold prices decreased from $1,664/oz to $1,203/oz in the first half of 2013. Revenue was at £157.033m, down from £161,453m for the same period of 2012. However, despite the damage [...]
Productivity is 16 percentage points below G7 average – the widest gap since 1993

September 18, 2013

Compared with the other major industrialised economies, UK output per hour was 16 percentage points below average in 2012. Output per worker basis came in at 19 percentage points lower than the average for the rest of G7 for 2012, according to latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Both output per hour [...]
JD sports sees profit more than double

September 18, 2013

Sports retailer JD sports has reported profit before tax up 111 per cent for the 26 week period to 3 August, at £6.087m from 2.879m in the same period of 2012. (Release) Like for like sales in the UK and Ireland were up 7.5 per cent. Basic earnings per ordinary share were at 10.19p – [...]
MC Saatchi reports positive results for first half of 2013

September 18, 2013

Advertising agency M&C Saatchi announced strong results for the year up to June with a profit rise of 6 per cent to £9.3m. (Release) Revenue was up 5 per cent at £87.1m with UK revenue up 8 per cent and like-for-like European revenues up 21 per cent. The interim dividend increased by 10 per cent [...]
More houses for developer Redrow

September 18, 2013

British house builder Redrow has announced plans to reinstate a dividend following successful results for the first half of 2013. (Release) In the year to June, pretax profit was up 63 per cent to £70m with group revenue increasing 26 per cent to £604.8m. As a result of improved figures, Redrow's board has proposed reinstating [...]
Before the open: Markets await Fed decision on tapering

September 18, 2013

The Nikkei closed up as today's Federal Open Markets Committee keeps markets waiting this morning. Fed officials have stressed that some form of tapering could happen by the end of the year if data from the third quarter supports it. Market consensus seems to be in the region of $10bn to $15bn taper of [...]
Any other business – 18/09

September 18, 2013

Spread betting firm Spreadex hosted its annual golf day last week, and The Capitalist hears that it ended up being a knockout event in more ways than one. Traders from the spread betting company were entertaining clients at a prestigious golf club in Surrey, but the day didn’t go quite as smoothly as planned. The [...]
Barroso on Europe and recovery

September 17, 2013

This morning, Jose Barroso, president of the European Commission, spoke following a meeting with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. His statement is detailed below. Barroso started off by saying that the verdict on Europe's performance will be given by European voters at the next European Elections. THE CRISIS Barroso: returned to the trigger [...]

Fury promoters Queensberry see profits rise after Dubois vs Joshua bout

Fury promoters Queensberry see profits rise after Dubois vs Joshua bout

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