New Abarth 500e is a feisty electric hot hatchback December 7, 2022 The Abarth version of the electric Fiat 500e serves up 155hp for 0-62mph in 7.0 seconds, plus the promise of real on-track ability.
Moonpig customers purchasing cheaper gifts and ‘hesitating’ due to Royal Mail strikes December 7, 2022 Shoppers hunting for birthday and anniversary presents are forking out for cheaper options and hesitating to send cards due to postie walk-outs, Moonpig’s boss has said. Ongoing disruption from Royal Mail strike days was “clearly not helpful” to the greetings cards business, CEO Nickyl Raithatha told CityA.M., as customers expected deliveries on specific days. Customers [...]
UK house prices fall in sharpest drop since 2008 crash December 7, 2022 House price growth has continued to cool in the UK, with last month representing the sharpest decline in value since 2008. The average cost of a home now stands at £285,579, after falling by 2.3 per cent in November, according to Halifax today – which began tracking house prices in 1983. Growth rates have slowed [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? December 7, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. The Bank of London The Bank of London has poached its new chief financial officer from Metro Bank. Banking veteran Marc Jenkins, who will also join the executive management committee, spent two years as deputy and acting [...]
Whether it’s otters or guns, social media cannot exist without algorithms December 7, 2022 If you follow me on Twitter, you may have come for the digital rights content and stayed for the otters. I joined Twitter reluctantly for professional reasons – to find out what is going on in the world, connect with people doing insightful work, and to share my own professional content. But the more time [...]
The fate of John Lewis vs Debenhams is a parable in how to adapt to the future December 7, 2022 Emerging technologies, from AI and machine learning to edge computing and the metaverse, are fundamentally revolutionising how data is captured and used by businesses in the UK. The effective application of this data can have a transformational effect on the performance of an organisation. In the UK, we’ve had clear examples of this working to [...]
If you can build a football team, you can advance the fortunes of poor nations December 7, 2022 In Qatar, there has been a storm over its treatment of women, the LGBT community, and other minorities. But it has also, in another way, been the most egalitarian World Cup. What used to be called “upsets”, with notionally weaker teams beating their alleged superiors have almost become the norm.
Letters: A plan for levelling up December 7, 2022 Thriving, sustainable businesses build the strong, vibrant, and flourishing communities we want to live in.
BrewDog ad banned for branding beer ‘one of your five a day’ December 7, 2022 A BrewDog advert has been banned by the industry watchdog after it branded beer as “one of your five a day” in a marketing email. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the claim was misleading, suggesting that consumers could be confused by the messaging. The body of the email featured the heading “FEELING FRUITY” in [...]
Biden and Sunak strike deal to double UK gas imports from US December 7, 2022 The US wants to more than double its gas exports to Britain next year, after Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden struck a landmark deal yesterday.
