Rangers confirm approach from Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver and lands £500,000 loan from Sandy Easdale January 5, 2015 Rangers Football Club have confirmed they have received an offer from American financier Robert Sarver for the controlling stake in the club. Yesterday there were several reports that Sarver, who owns the Phoenix Suns basketball team, had made an offer of £18m. Rangers confirmed reports in the press in a statement this morning: The Company [...]
Cork blimey! Christmas champagne outsells semi-skimmed milk at Lidl January 4, 2015 Shoppers at budget supermarket chain Lidl bought more champagne than semi-skimmed milk this Christmas, the retailer has revealed. Figures show that savvy customers snapped up so many bottles of Lidl’s £11.99 Comte De Senneval champagne that it knocked the store’s usual bestseller, semi-skimmed milk, off the top spot for the festive season. The champagne has [...]
Jobs market in City surged by one fifth in 2014 January 4, 2015 CITY hiring jumped by a fifth last year, as the continuing UK recovery and increased business confidence opened up 33,063 new jobs. And recruitment firm Astbury Marsden says that healthier market conditions in the City means many workers are expecting bigger bonuses for their performance last year. Figures showed an 18 per cent jump in [...]
Chinese tycoon Guo Guangchang wins battle to buy Club Med January 4, 2015 Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang is set to buy French holiday resorts firm Club Med in a deal worth over €900m (£704m) after winning a long-running bidding war against Italian rival Andrea Bonomi, it was revealed yesterday. Billionaire Bonomi conceded defeat late on Friday. Guangchang’s conglomerate Fosun International had raised its bid for the holiday company [...]
New job? What to look out for when signing a contract January 4, 2015 Have you been offered a new job? It’s worth negotiating the key terms. Do you have the back to work blues? For many, the Christmas and New Year break is an opportunity to reassess your position. It may be that you feel you are being undervalued and aren’t getting a fair deal at work. [...]
New Year weight loss holidays: These getaways prove the January detox doesn’t always have to be depressing January 4, 2015 Forget crash diets and spin-classes. From running in Tallinn to blissing out in Sri Lanka, this is how to work off that festive flubber in style. Overindulged this Christmas? Did making merry take its toll on your belly? These travel tips combine the nations’ favourite January past times, detoxing and booking holidays, so you can [...]
CES 2015 preview: 3 things to expect at the biggest technology show of the year January 4, 2015 It's not even a week since the wrapping was ripped off the latest tech gadget gifts given over Christmas, but a wave of new devices, inventions and trends are already set to sweep the market. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), brings together the biggest electronics brands, and many upstarts looking to disrupt their business, [...]
Tesco to reveal new supplier payment system as fears of second-half loss grows January 4, 2015 In the wake of a terrible 2014 for the retail giant, Tesco is preparing itself to overhaul the way it organises its supply chain. According to the Sunday Times, which quotes senior sources, Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis plans to unpick the complex system of rebates and penalties used to extract money from suppliers, [...]
Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin defends 2.2pc rail fare increase January 2, 2015 The government has defended today's 2.2 per cent increase in rail fares, arguing it's a vital step to maintaining world-class infrastructure. The transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the rise was critical for new investment to maintain the network and ensure safety standards. He argued that if people wanted to use trains they would have to [...]
Black Friday hits John Lewis’ Christmas sales January 2, 2015 He may have been a runaway hit, but not even Monty the Penguin could help John Lewis emulate the success of its Black Friday deals during the Christmas period. Sales at the retailer fell 1.4 per cent during the week of Christmas, with sales of electrical goods falling 14.7 per cent compared with the same [...]