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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LA fitness selling 33 stores to slim down business

March 7, 2014

UK gym chain LA fitness has announced it’s selling 33 of its 80 clubs as part of a restructuring plan to reduce its debt burden. By slimming down its portfolio, the group hope to secure its long-term future. Chief executive Martin Long said: It is a structural issue that is hampering LA fitness and it [...]
Why Germany’s industry pickup isn’t that exciting

March 7, 2014

German industrial production gathered steam in January, with output rising 0.8 per cent. While consensus was for a 0.7 per cent rise – so initially the pickup looks pretty encouraging – December’s fall of 0.6 per cent was revised up to a drop of 0.1 per cent, and several analysts had been expected a bigger [...]
This week’s 4 must-see charts

March 7, 2014

The Fed’s use of the word “weather”, vulnerable high street profits, gold’s revival, and the economic effects of the Ukraine crisis. We bring you some of our favourite analysts’ picks of the most important graphs this week. David Lebovitz, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management: There has been a lot of discussion of [...]
Alliance Trust starts registering English companies ahead of Scotland vote

March 7, 2014

Alliance Trust, the Dundee-based investment management group, has begun setting up registered companies in England, ahead of the Scottish referendum. The firm said it’s a precautionary measure when it comes to tax, financial regulation and what currency Scotland would use if independent – another knock for Alex Salmond. Chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox said: The referendum [...]
Boohoo confirms £560m listing next week

March 7, 2014

Online fashion website Boohoo has confirmed this morning that it’ll debut on London’s Alternative Investment Market (Aim) market next week, with a market cap of £560m. Shares will be trading from next Friday, with 600m placed at 50p each, raising £300m. The firm’s got plans to spend £50m of what’s raised via the flotation on [...]
What you need to know before the open

March 7, 2014

A mixed open for Europe this morning as investors await the US employment report. Consensus is that US hiring increased enough in February to leave the Fed’s tapering plan on track. The S&P 500 saw a record finish again yesterday as weekly jobless claims dropped to a three-month low. The ECB disappointed yesterday, leaving its [...]
Turkey’s prime minister confirms possible Facebook and Youtube ban

March 7, 2014

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the country could ban Facebook and Youtube after local elections on 30 March, because, he claims, it’s being used by his political opponents to discredit him. On a late night TV interview yesterday, he said he’d rather shut the sites down then see them be used against [...]
The limits of celebrity power and the rise of selfie-nomics in one tweet

March 7, 2014

IT WAS the tweet heard round the web. The selfie Ellen DeGeneres took during the Oscars became an internet sensation. First, it garnered the most retweets ever: as I write, Twitter reports 3.3m users have recommended it in this way. The previous record holder, President Barack Obama, had managed only 780,000 retweets, for a photograph [...]
City & Gild: How Russia presented my consultancy with a brand dilemma

March 7, 2014

Talk about timing: a couple of months ago our brand consultancy was approached to work with Moscow on rebranding Russia to make it more attractive to business. It’s been done before. In the late 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev dramatically rebranded the Soviet Union, and Russia as its core member, from closed to open, building a nation [...]
How Aviva’s leaping into the record books by hedging death rates

March 6, 2014

While the news headlines surrounding insurer Aviva this morning focused on its encouraging profits and ongoing turnaround, there was one nugget of information buried deep inside its results which failed to catch the eye – just the biggest pension trade in history. In a brief line on page 126 of the 175-page tome, Aviva says [...]

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