Five ways to make sure you feel refreshed after a holiday May 22, 2015 Holidays are a time for rest, relaxation and improving well-being, and at the end of it we expect to return feeling revived and ready to take on the world. There's one problem, though – while we might be away from the pressures of work and daily life, we can often become a lot less [...]
Just Eat orders £445m placing for takeaway May 21, 2015 JUST EAT moved closer to gobbling up Australian takeaway business Menulog last night, after it closed the books on its £445m placing and open offer. Bookrunners JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have conditionally placed 105.4m new ordinary shares with institutional investors at 425p per share, which will fund its acquisition of Menulog. The online takeaway [...]
Restaurant review: The Barge House May 19, 2015 The Barge House is adorable. To get to it, you have to walk down the Regent’s Canal tow-path between Hoxton and Haggerston, where old Victorian warehouses rise indomitably out of the water, all of them now home to design studios and craft breweries. It’s been open since November but nobody noticed because the only reason [...]
Working lunch in the City: Jose Pizarro, Broadgate Circle May 19, 2015 Our guide to the best places to eat during office hours in the City. WHAT? A busy, buzzy new tapas restaurant specialising in sea-food and first-class charcuterie. From the highly rated Spanish chef Jose Pizarro. WHERE? The restaurant is one of 11 new openings at Broadgate Circle, the pedestrianised bit of concrete [...]
Yawn: Another concept cafe launches in Shoreditch – but this time it serves breakfast in bed May 18, 2015 Another day, another Shoreditch-based concept pop up cafe. It's enough to make you yawn and yearn for your bed. And as luck would have it, this cafe the brainchild of Swedish furniture leviathan Ikea, and the eating takes place in bed. The retailer argues it is leading a “breakfast in bed revolution” with [...]
Sleepwalking to Brexit: The stakes are too high to be complacent about the risks May 17, 2015 Expect the unexpected could be considered the new mantra for UK politics, just like think the unthinkable has become an increasingly common refrain for markets. The shock Conservative majority and stunning gains of the SNP left Paddy Ashdown eating his hat, Alastair Campbell eating his kilt, and David Cameron well-advised to dust off the “Better [...]
The workplace designs that combat ageism: Floating desks and a paperless environment won’t suit the whole team May 14, 2015 There has been much hype recently about what makes an office “cool”. Respondents to a survey from a design company ranked a slide, personal barista and a puppy/kitten room as the top three “cool” requirements. These may appear on the wish lists of so-called millennials, but are they likely to represent the views of employees [...]
British people can’t cope without the internet on holiday – most stay switched on even when abroad May 13, 2015 British people aren't very good at leaving the internet behind when they leave the country, a new survey has shown – it turns out 84 per cent stay switched on to their devices when taking a holiday abroad, despite the higher costs associated with it. The findings, released by market research firm Webloyalty, also reveal [...]
A guide to Ibiza for grown ups: What the White Isle offers the more discerning clubber with a budget May 11, 2015 What do you do when you’ve just suffered a humiliating election defeat that virtually nobody on the planet predicted? Why, you board the first flight to Ibiza, of course. Right now, at 6am on a Tuesday morning, Ed Miliband could well be gurning on the terrace of a beach club, stripped to his chinos, glow-sticks [...]
A class of her own: Anthemis founder Amy Nauiokas talks gender and the future of banks May 10, 2015 What makes someone exceptional? Being chief executive of Barclays Stockbrokers by 34? Heading up four major departments at Cantor Fitzgerald in the wake of 9/11? Or setting up and running both a digital financial services investment and advisory firm and a media production company? These are just the highlights of Anthemis and Archer Gray founder [...]