CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 28, 2010 Norton Rose The law firm has made two new additions to its dispute resolution practice. Paul Morris joins as partner from Denton Wilde Sapte, where he was a partner and joint head of dispute resolution. He is an experienced contentious corporate trustee practitioner. Also joining the firm as partner is David McKie, who is moving [...]
ATM dispenses only £5 notes June 28, 2010 ATM operator Bank Machine has launched a network of free cash machines that only dispenses £5 notes. The company has introduced 21 cash machines across Britain following a pilot at two machines in London. The machines dispense 100,000 £5 notes a month.
Creston sells ad agency DLKW June 28, 2010 Communications firm Creston is selling its advertising agency DLKW Group to the world’s No. 4 ad group Interpublic Group of Cos (IPG) for £28m. For the year ended 31 March, headline pre-tax profit was £13.8m, compared with £14.2m in the year-ago period.
Online retail expected to soar June 28, 2010 Online retail is expected to defy general sluggish growth for the overall retail sector, according to a survey. The PayPal Online Retail Report, undertaken by Experian, predicts the internet retail sector to grow by £8bn, a leap of 36 per cent to £30.6bn, by the end of 2012.
Tastes of the garden in St James’s June 28, 2010 The Avenue 7-9 St James’s Street, SW1A 1EE www.danddlondon.com HUGE place, The Avenue. It has sat near the bottom of St James’s Street since the Nineties when its spacious minimalism was quite the thing, if hardly what you’d expect to find just off fusty old Pall Mall. Earlier this year it was given a paint [...]
TASTING NOTES June 28, 2010 1) PREPARATION is everything when throwing a summer party. Since cold dishes are the order of the day, definitely have food ready in the fridge that can be pulled out as your guests arrive. Dishes such as frittatas and salads will fit the bill perfectly. You should enjoy the evening as much as your guests [...]
IT’S PRISKY BUSINESS OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE June 28, 2010 THE Capitalist caught up with minister of state for business Mark Prisk yesterday during his afternoon of cold-calling potential customers for small business DIY Kyoto. The minister dropped in to the small Bethnal Green-based firm, which sells energy monitors for the home, as part of a project to learn about the current environment for small [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS June 28, 2010 ANTUNES SETS UP SHOP ON SOUTH BANK French chef Joel Antunes built a laudable reputation for himself back in the Eighties and Nineties working around France, Asia and the UK before launching Les Saveurs in Mayfair, where he picked up a Michelin star. After that he went to the States, but his latest venture is [...]
CITY EYE June 28, 2010 A MOTHER watches her son playing a piano in the churchyard of St. Paul’s. The pianos chained up around town are part of Street Pianos, a City of London festival event.
The king of scent and his powers of perfume picking June 28, 2010 WHEN we meet, Roja Dove is wearing a billowing turquoise silk shirt tucked into trousers held up by a diamante belt with a skull clasp, and has skin so dewy it could be that of a 20 year-old boy. Such remarkable self-presentation, not to mention his mellifluous voice, is immediately suggestive of the fact that [...]
