Carne Group bags €100m investment from London private equity firm January 13, 2021 Irish financial services firm Carne Group has secured funding from a London-based private equity firm that has backed the likes of Darktrace and Just Eat. Carne Group, which is the world’s largest third-party fund management company, announced it had received a €100m investment from Vitruvian Partners. The fresh funding will be used to expand the [...]
Just Eat splurges £5m on Snoop Dogg as Covid delivers results January 13, 2021 Orders to Just Eat grew by 58 per cent in Q4 2020, marking the third consecutive quarter of order growth acceleration. Delivery orders in the UK grew by a whopping 387% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, as the UK again entered a national lockdown and coronavirus restrictions [...]
CES 2021: The futuristic gadgets killing Covid January 12, 2021 In years gone by, City A.M. would have been on the showroom floor in Las Vegas bringing you the latest news from the frontline of the tech world. This year, of course, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has done digital, and if any expo in the world can pull off that feat, it should be [...]
The best of travel: Spending a week in an ‘apocalypse dome’ January 12, 2021 Throughout January we’re remembering better times and sunnier climes by reposting some of our favourite travel stories from the last decade. In the second instalment, our Life&Style editor Steve Dinneen retreats from civilization to live inside an artist’s “apocalypse dome”. Read more: Pink goes offline as Covid takes the shirt off its back The more we [...]
We travel to Europe’s first psychedelic mushroom retreat January 11, 2021 Lockdown has scuppered even the best laid plans. Far from going on holiday somewhere exotic, or embarking on an adventure of self discovery, we’re stuck in a country where walking in the park with a flask of tea may get you arrested. So as we dream of better times and sunnier climes, we’re starting a [...]
Buying newlyweds a crypto present is still the best gift January 8, 2021 In the recent past (I couldn’t tell you when exactly because the last ten months have destroyed my conception of time and my place on this planet), a good mate of mine got married. He is male and is called Adam and his wife is female, but not called Eve. He’s not your usual investor, [...]
England football team chef Omar Meziane on feeding Harry Kane and Co, Joe Hart’s soup strop, and his new business Tweakd January 8, 2021 He might be the England team’s trusted chef now, but Omar Meziane did not expect his first assignment with the country’s best footballers to last long. “It was a rainy Sunday night when I got a call from the FA saying: ‘We’d love you to go to South Korea with the under-20s.’ About a week [...]
Greggs expects £15m full-year loss as coronavirus restrictions bite January 6, 2021 Greggs will swing to a full-year loss of up to £15m due to the impact of coronavirus lockdowns on trading, the high street bakery chain announced this morning. The company, which has cut 820 jobs due to the crisis, said the drop in demand means it expects to report a loss before tax for 2020 [...]
Stars in their eyes: PSA and Fiat shareholders approve mega-merger January 4, 2021 Shareholders in Peugeot-owner PSA and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) have today approved the mega-merger of the two firms, a deal which will create the world’s fourth-largest auto firm. The new entity, called Stellantis, will comprise 14 different brands, including FCA’s Fiat, Maserati and US-focused Jeep, Dodge and Ram to PSA’s Peugeot, Citroen, Opel and DS. Stellantis [...]
Metabolic Conditioning: What is Metcon and how can it help your January fitness? January 4, 2021 Metabolic Conditioning or Metcon for short is by far one of the most misunderstood training techniques. It is often associated with chiselled abs, hardcore workouts and aching muscles. However, this high-octane training style isn’t just for elite athletes and it can be adapted to help strengthen our minds as well as our bodies. What is [...]