Weekly Grill: Chris Leach, chef founder of Manteca, on rediscovering bananas and being interrupted by Ross from Friends January 9, 2020 Who are you and what do you do? My name is Chris Leach, and I’m chef founder of Manteca, a new restaurant on Great Marlborough Street, which I’m opening alongside David Carter of Smokestak. We’ve just finished a residency at 10 Heddon Street, so Manteca will be an evolvement of that. Tell us about Manteca Manteca [...]
Carlos Ghosn press conference live: Ghosn accuses Nissan and Japan of collusion January 8, 2020 Please manually refresh this page for our latest updates from Carlos Ghosn’s Beirut press conference. Carlos Ghosn’s sensational escape from the Japanese legal system at the end of December made him one of the world’s most sought-after international fugitives. Today, the former Nissan boss speaks to the world’s media, with a promise to dish the [...]
Here’s to another 10 years of City success December 20, 2019 It has been a decade of great upheaval for the City. January 2010 saw the UK economy just starting to come out of recession, with unemployment at its highest in 15 years, and a raft of regulations and inquiries into the financial services sector imminent, not to mention an election that would mark the start [...]
Japan – with kids? Believe it or not, it works December 18, 2019 The looks of incomprehension became commonplace, from colleagues, friends, neighbours and, most severely, my mother-in-law. “You’re taking her… to Japan?” they asked, through a variety of similar rhetorical questions. A trip to Japan should surprise no one, these days. The island state is undergoing an eye-watering boom in tourism, with visitor numbers soaring from 13m [...]
Don’t ignore your opponent’s ideas — you could learn from them December 13, 2019 UK politics is a machine for killing good ideas. It’s brutal, adversarial, and first past the post. Our party-bound MPs almost never ask the only question that matters: based on the facts, what is best for the country? Imagine that your company has a complex problem. Three of you work up ideas to solve it. [...]
Puregym expands in Europe with £350m acquisition of Fitness World December 12, 2019 The UK’s largest gym operator Puregym today announced the acquisition of European business Fitness World in a £350m deal. Puregym was acquired by private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners in 2017 in a deal that valued the business at £600m. Its acquisition of Fitness World gives the business a market-leading position in Denmark as [...]
Insolvency firm Begbies Traynor’s boss says retail carnage expected to continue December 10, 2019 The executive chairman of restructuring and insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor said today that there was no sign of the carnage on the High Street ending as the growth in e-retailing and shaky consumer confidence continued to take their toll. “Headwinds in terms of consumer demand with uncertainty over what the future will hold and structural [...]
Margrethe Vestager says EU will review competition rules in light of increasing digitalisation December 9, 2019 The EU will review its rules on how it defines markets to react to increasing digitalisation, EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said today. Vestager said it was time to review the EU’s market definition notice which has been in place since 1997. “Changes like globalisation and digitisation mean that many markets work rather differently from [...]
General Election 2019: How do I register to vote? November 9, 2019 Everything you need to know about how to vote in the upcoming general election on Thursday 12 December. Who is eligible to vote in the general election? To vote you must be 18 or older on the day of election and a UK, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen. You must also be a resident in [...]
Office Space: Inside the opulent Mayfair base of luxury property developer Clivedale November 1, 2019 Real estate firms’ offices tend to fit into one of two moulds: a converted Mayfair townhouse, an old-fashioned relic left over from the days where Hanover Square was overrun with estate agents in braces and pinstripe suits; or a clinical, corporate space interchangeable with that of any other property company, law firm or accountant. Super-prime [...]