Black Friday 2015 UK deals: Amazon, John Lewis, Tesco, Currys PC World, Ebay, Carphone Warehouse and Asos sales are here November 26, 2015 Retailers up and down the UK are offering massive savings as part of the Black Friday sales. This year Black Friday will happen on Friday 27th November. However, some retailers have already started their week of deals. Outlets including Amazon, Argos, Very, Ebay have been running hundreds if not thousands of deals throughout the week. Others like Tesco, John [...]
Black Friday 2015 UK: The best fashion deals from Asos, Gap, Hobbs, Topshop, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and many more November 26, 2015 Fashion-concious shoppers who are preparing to dip into their wallets for Black Friday will be able to choose from a range of high street shops to designer brands. November 27 is widely tipped to be the biggest shopping day of the year, with a number of estimates expecting tills to ring to the tune of £1bn in just 24 hours. Figures [...]
Black Friday UK 2015: Amazon, Currys PC World, John Lewis and Asos to be winners – while AO World, Home Retail Group and Game Digital will be losers November 18, 2015 Black Friday is less than 10 days away (27 November for those who haven't marked it in their calendar/had it tattooed on their forehead) and UK retailers are falling over themselves to get the sales bonanza right. Some, like Asda and fashion brand Jigsaw, have walked away from the discount day. But others are planning to [...]
Best of the Brokers for 18 November 2015 November 18, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com STANDARD CHARTERED Jefferies believes the $17bn revenues implied in Standard Chartered’s 2018 returns on an equity target of eight per cent will be “tough to achieve”, given the ongoing pressure at the bank. Five per cent returns would be more achievable in 2018 [...]
The top 20 companies Brits want to work for – Google, Apple, John Lewis, and Asos top LinkedIn’s most in demand employers list October 22, 2015 People are scrambling to work at tech behemoth Google more than any other company in the UK, while high-street favourite John Lewis is the British company people most want to work for, according to figures published today. Google, famous for fun offices and free food among many perks, has topped LinkedIn's annual ranking of the most in demand employers [...]
FTSE 100 trading marginally up on Whitbread and InterContinental Hotels Group results October 20, 2015 The FTSE 100 is swinging between minor gains and falls this morning as Whitbread and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) lead the pack, gaining 2.22 per cent and 3.72 per cent respectively at 9:00. Investors liked Whitbread's first half results, in which the company reported a pre-tax profit of £291.3m, up 13 per cent on the same period last year. [...]
Asos share price rises as sales smash through £1bn barrier October 20, 2015 The figures Group revenue rose 18 per cent to £1.15bn in the year to 31 August 2015, from £975.5m in 2014. This was helped by retail sales, which increased 17 per cent, from £955.3m to £1.12bn during this period. Pre-tax profit rose one per cent to £47.5m despite Asos investing in proposition, warehousing and people capabilities. These costs were partially offset by insurance proceeds [...]
Judge P2P firms on whether they’re profitable – not just on how much money they’ve lent October 19, 2015 Three years ago this week, the veteran venture capitalist Robin Klein made the case in these pages for greater support for UK high growth technology companies in their push into mainstream London capital markets. Over time, confidence grew and several good firms were helped onto the public markets through the London Stock Exchange’s High Growth [...]
Retail website StreetHub reveals $2.6m funding round led by Octopus Ventures October 19, 2015 StreetHub, a network of independent retailers, has announced a $2.6m (£1.7m) funding round, led by Octopus Ventures. The group also received investments from Index Ventures, which has stakes in online retailers Asos, Farfetch and Net-a-Porter, among others, as well as a number of other angel investors. The new funding round coincides with the launch of [...]
Public finance numbers could be back on track – London Report October 18, 2015 THE LATEST public finance figures, due out on Wednesday, are expected to have seen renewed year-on-year improvement in September after a particularly disappointing August. An improved September performance would help get the public finances back on track to reach George Osborne’s targets after taking a hit the previous month. Economists expect public sector net borrowing [...]