Food inflation: First signs of energy cost surge feed through to supermarket shelves as discounts fail to stem price growth
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 29, 2010 Jones Lang LaSalle The real estate services firm has appointed Jamie Stewart-Liddon as a senior surveyor in its tenant representation team. He will be providing consultancy, acquisition and disposal advice to office occupiers primarily based in the South East of England. Stewart-Liddon worked for a City stock-broking firm before moving into commercial real estate five [...]
Pendragon is bullish for 2010 June 29, 2010 Car retail group Pendragon yesterday said it expects profitability for the six months to 30 June to be in line with expectations, reflecting improvement in aftersales profitability. In addition, the company said that used car sales volumes have continued to grow year on year and used car margins have stabilised. In a trading statement, the [...]
Wal-Mart names new US CEO June 29, 2010 Wal-Mart yesterday named Bill Simon to run its US discount stores, which have struggled with sluggish sales as their core customer continues to be pressured by high unemployment. Simon, 50, had been chief operating officer of Walmart US. The move allows Eduardo Castro-Wright, who had headed the US unit, to move to California and be [...]
Get your top off June 29, 2010 Weather like we’ve been having lately in the Big Smoke might make you yearn for a cruise out of town with the wind ruffling up your hair. But then this weather is a bit of an anomaly because, frankly, our summers aren’t usually this good, and the sun only occasionally puts in an appearance in [...]
OUT OF OFFICE June 29, 2010 GO RUNNING, BOUTIQUE-STYLE Ever feel that your girls’ nights out are a little on the unhealthy side? If so, try this one on for size: a boutique run, 5 or 10k, in Battersea Park followed by free champagne, hot showers, massages, free makeovers from the Powder Puff Girls, a fabulous after party featuring music and [...]
Sorry Blatter to reconsider technology June 29, 2010 FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted that the widespread embarrassment caused by Frank Lampard’s wrongfully disallowed goal against Germany has forced the world governing body to reconsider its opposition to goal-line technology. And in a further attempt to defuse the row, Blatter revealed that he had telephoned the Football Association to apologise for the colossal [...]
Capello will stay, insists FA bigwig June 29, 2010 BOLTON chairman and Football Association board member Phil Gartside insists Fabio Capello deserves to keep his job despite England’s World Cup debacle. England chiefs have told the Italian they need two weeks to decide whether to sack him, following a hugely disappointing second-round exit. But Gartside has become the first FA figure to reveal his [...]
Spanish Villa proves to be hot property June 29, 2010 SPAIN (1) vs PORTUGAL (0) BARCELONA hotshot David Villa struck again as Spain took a huge step towards adding the World Cup to their European Championship. Villa finally broke Portugal’s resistance just after the hour to set up a quarter-final with Paraguay on Saturday that they will be expected to win – and send their [...]
Venus sent crashing out by Pironkova June 29, 2010 GIANT-KILLER Tsvetana Pironkova told of her dream come true after sending five-time champion Venus Williams spinning out of Wimbledon. The unseeded Bulgarian put in the performance of her life, returning everything Williams had to throw at her, to come through 6-2, 6-3 in one of the biggest shocks in SW19 history. “It seems like a [...]
It’s the best England team for 20 years June 29, 2010 ALEC STEWART believes England are reaping the rewards of their best one-day side in nearly 20 years as they go in search of a 5-0 series whitewash over Australia. Andrew Strauss’s men will be looking to build on their unassailable 3-0 lead over their arch-rivals when they lock horns for the fourth one-day international at [...]
