Okinawa: Japan, but not as you know it February 22, 2015 Everyone who is serious about travel should have their Alex Garland destination; somewhere you can casually name-drop at dinner parties, safe in the knowledge that nobody else will have been. Garland immortalised – and doomed – Thailand’s then-pristine Koh Phangan when he wrote about it in his novel The Beach. That was in 1996, just [...]
City Moves for 06 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 5, 2015 Warburg Pincus Rene Obermann is joining the global private equity firm as managing director and partner. Obermann was chief executive of Deutsche Telekom from 2006 to 2013, and was most recently chief executive of Ziggo NV. He will be based at the firm’s London office. Hay Group The management consultancy has appointed Jim Tapper as [...]
Dixons Carphone signs deal with Hutchison Whampoa’s Three to offer mobile services February 1, 2015 DIXONS Carphone has struck an agreement with network provider Three to offer mobile services that will also seek to help customers link up their devices and appliances. Under the terms of the agreement with Three’s owner Hutchison Whampoa, the company will offer mobile contracts that will let customers tailor their price, minutes and data to [...]
Dixons Carphone to launch mobile service for Internet of Things plans through Hutchison Whampoa’s Three February 1, 2015 Dixons Carphone is the latest to jump into the mobile ring with plans to launch its own mobile service to customers. The retailer has made an agreement with Hutchison Whampoa, the owner of mobile network Three, to provide a mobile service to its customers who are increasingly buying connected devices. Dixons Carphone previously outlined its [...]
Sport Comment: Players turned pundits can earn a packet after football January 29, 2015 FOOTBALL pundits: don’t you just love them? Well, maybe you do, perhaps you don’t. They are there to curry debate, adding their professional perspective to TV and radio coverage of our great game. Only yesterday, we woke up to reports that former Spurs and England schemer Danny Murphy was facing a £2.5m tax bill. Now [...]
Rushed off your feet? How to invest when you’re very busy January 27, 2015 Consider a multi-manager fund as a time-saving option. We all know how difficult it can be to juggle the demands of modern life – and your financial affairs may feel the squeeze from time to time. “In our experience, a great many people who started out as DIY investors with bags of enthusiasm conclude that [...]
Building a nest egg: The best ways to invest for your child January 20, 2015 Don’t be afraid to take risks on your children’s behalf. With the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasting that, in 18 years’ time, fewer than half of us will be able to own a home, saving for your children may well feel more important than ever. Calculations from Nutmeg show that, in order to amass a [...]
Quindell share price leaps 27 per cent as it names Richard Rose as chairman and makes three more executive hires January 12, 2015 Shares in troubled insurance claims outsourcer Quindell jumped 27 per cent in late morning trading after it confirmed it has hired four new executives. Richard Rose, the chairman of online electrical goods retailer AO.com and cash-and-carry operator Booker Group, has been named as its new chairman, replacing Rob Terry who stepped down in November. Meanwhile [...]
The fast food revolutionary: EatFirst co-founder Rahul Parekh talks long hours, calories, mopeds and Mayfair hotels January 11, 2015 If you're after a startup story with a good luck streak, then that of Rahul Parekh, co-founder of EatFirst, might be the one for you. One evening, late last April, Parekh was holed up in a Mayfair hotel. He got chatting to some friends of a friend who, it transpired, worked for Rocket Internet – [...]
The world’s brightest will shun the UK if isolationist rhetoric doesn’t stop now January 8, 2015 We all have our own image of UK entrepreneurship. Sir Richard Branson is a common first choice, and Sir James Dyson is another. For me, it is the Indian Restaurateur. When I first founded Cobra Beer 25 years ago, it was these tireless, unsung heroes of UK entrepreneurship who placed their trust and belief in [...]