By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with City A.M. Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: joe.hall@cityam.com

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Dunkin’ Donuts apologises for “insensitive” Liverpool badge tweet

February 26, 2015

Liverpool FC commercial partner Dunkin' Donuts has apologised for an "insensitive" social media campaign that offended a number of football fans. The brand's Twitter page posted an image of a Dunkin' Donuts-modified Liverpool crest which replaced the club's iconic "You'll Never Walk Alone" mantra with the tagline "America Runs on Dunkin' " and swapped the [...]
Domino’s Pizza share price soars after revealing record profit

February 26, 2015

The figures Shares in Domino's Pizza soared by more than seven per cent in early morning trading after the fast food company announced a 15.1 per cent rise in underlying profit before tax to an extra-large £54.8m for the full year ended 28 December 2014. The record profit was delivered by record sales of £766.6m [...]
Countrywide predicts rocky 2015 for property market despite record profits

February 26, 2015

The figures The UK's largest estate agent, Countrywide, whose brands include Bairstow Eves, Hamptons and John D Wood, announced a 20 per cent rise in total income to £702.2m in its first year as a publicly listed company. Profit before tax rose 63 per cent to a record level of £102.4m, from £62.9m at the same stage [...]
RBS chief executive Ross McEwan hands back £1m share reward

February 26, 2015

Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Ross McEwan will forfeit a £1m portion of his pay packet for the second year in a row. McEwan, known as the lowest-paid bank boss in the FTSE 100, said he did not want to receive the "role based" incentive often used by major UK banks to get around [...]
Qatar 2022 World Cup: The six biggest problems with the controversial tournament

February 25, 2015

It seemed almost impossible to believe in 2010, but five years after Fifa awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, the prospect of the world's biggest football tournament in the tiny gulf state is more real than ever. Despite a litany of scandals associated with the bid and an outcry over the host [...]
Use of zero hours contracts rises to record levels

February 25, 2015

The finance sector once again had the lowest rate of workers on zero hour contracts in 2014, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed. However, the total number of UK workers on zero hour contracts, which guarantee no set hours rose by 110,000 to 697,000. Just 31,000 of [...]
Whitbread share price rises after investors told to expect top end results

February 25, 2015

The figures Shares in Whitbread opened 2.35 per cent up after the hospitality giant told investors to expect full-year results to come in towards the top end of current expectations, as sales at its cheap hotels and Costa Coffee chain continued to rise. Overall the group achieved a rise in like-for-like sales of 5.8 per [...]
Rangers: James Easdale resigns from board with immediate effect

February 25, 2015

Rangers non-executive director James Easdale has resigned from the Ibrox board with immediate effect, a club statement informed the stock exchange this morning. Easdale, whose brother Sandy still sits on the board, has stepped down just over a week before the group holds its extraordinary general meeting that could lead to the current incumbents being [...]
Natalie Bennett suffers car crash interview with LBC’s Nick Ferrari

February 24, 2015

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has got her party's general election campaign off to a nightmare start, after an excruciating interview on London radio station LBC. Bennett appeared on the station ahead of the launch of the Green's manifesto, but stuttered and left lengthy pauses when host Nick Ferrari questioned her on particular issues. See [...]
Qatar 2022: Premier League and Europe’s top clubs criticise winter World Cup

February 24, 2015

Europe’s football elite have slammed Fifa proposals to hold the Qatar 2022 World Cup in November and December. The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL), which represents Europe’s top domestic competitions, says a winter World Cup will “perturb and cause great damage to the normal running of the European domestic competitions”. [...]

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