LiteBulb Group’s Simon McGivern and James Phillips talk Mary Berry, cashpoint encounters and woodwork January 18, 2015 It's not every day that you bump into an old friend at a cash machine in Fulham and end up hatching a business – but then Simon McGivern and James Phillips, the founders of LiteBulb Group, are not your average pair. They went to school together (although they didn’t know each other very well) and [...]
Something for the weekend January 15, 2015 Eat Amaru Restaurant London’s latest Japanese-South American cross-over restaurant is something special, with delicate sashimi, Peruvian ceviche and the odd truffle shaving. A welcome addition to St Katharine Dock. Visit amaru.london or call 0207 704765. THINK TEDXCLAPHAM Head down south for the inaugral TEDxClapham conference this Saturday. Speakers include brains behind Movember Justin Coghlan and [...]
Just Eat takes away 50pc jump in its like-for-like orders in 2014 January 14, 2015 ONLINE takeaway service Just Eat yesterday reported a 50 per cent jump in like-for-like orders in 2014. The company, which listed in London last April, said total orders grew 52 per cent, including those from its French business Alloresto.fr. David Buttress, the chief executive of Just Eat, said this “provides an excellent base for further [...]
Just Eat orders jump 50 per cent January 14, 2015 Online takeaway group Just Eat's share price rose as much as 3.9 per cent after it announced like-for-like orders leapt by 50 per cent last year. The London-listed firm also said total orders swelled 52 per cent, including orders from its French business (Alloresto.fr) from July onwards. Orders surged on ongoing investment across a range of [...]
Tumbling oil price eats into FTSE 100’s morning increase – London Report January 12, 2015 FALLS on Wall Street dragged back the FTSE 100’s early gains yesterday, as heavily weighted oil and energy companies dropped there as well as in Europe. The premier index was little changed at 6,501.42, up just 0.28 points. By comparison, Germany’s Dax and France’s Cac, which have less exposure to oil producers, were up over [...]
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 – [...]
Chateau Gütsch: Journey to Lucerne, the ticking heart of watchmaking January 11, 2015 Overlooking Lucerne, Chateau Gütsch is a belle-epoque retreat with a horological secret. As a writer with a particular penchant for Swiss watchmaking, I probably use the term “chocolate box” far too frequently. Hard not to when describing a springtime visit to an atelier nestled in the verdant Jura foothills, surrounded by cows and their clanking [...]
The 100 City people you need to follow on Twitter this year, day five: Thought leaders January 9, 2015 On the final day of our list, we've gone abstract: having gone through entrepreneurs, analysts, chief executives and economists, our final day provides some food for thought for those looking for a bit of inspiration in their Twitter streams. Whether they're well-known faces or small-time entrepreneurs; whether they've come up with a new way to [...]
Deflation spiral: Who would be the winners and losers? January 8, 2015 Yesterday it was finally confirmed the embattled eurozone slipped into deflation in the final month of 2014. Consumer prices slid into negative territory with a -0.2 per cent year-on-year inflation rate. This marked a significant fall from November when prices rose by 0.3 per cent according to Eurostat. This has fuelled concern the eurozone could [...]
Investors feasted on £13.6bn in London-listed IPOs last year January 6, 2015 Hungry investors feasted on billions of pounds in initial public offerings (IPOs) on the London Stock Exchange last year. In 2014 around 104 plucky issuers raised a total of £13.6bn on London's main and AIM markets. This represented a 10 per cent increase from the previous year's activity according to data from Thomson Reuters. Throughout the [...]