Heathrow Airport set for busiest day of the year December 19, 2019 Tomorrow is set to be Heathrow Airport’s busiest day of the year as people across the UK prepare to celebrate the holiday season. More than 250,000 people are expected to fly in and out of Heathrow tomorrow as a part of the 6 million journeys the airport will host in December. Read more: Thanksgiving passengers [...]
City Moves for 19 December – Who’s switching jobs at Turley, Johns & Co and Ashtead? December 19, 2019 Today’s City Moves includes Turley, Johns & Co and Ashtead. Turley Catriona Fraser has been promoted to director in the London team at national planning and development consultancy Turley. Catriona has been involved in several high-profile projects for Turley across London. She has advised on a number of key London development sites for mixed-use alternative [...]
String of London restaurants go paperless with City fintech startup Flux December 18, 2019 A number of London hot spots have taken a step towards going paperless, in a tie-up with digital receipts startup Flux. Flux has today signed partnership agreements with Japan Centre, Sakagura and Boparan Restaurant Group, which owns Giraffe, Ed’s Easy Diner and Slim Chickens. The deal means visitors who bank with Monzo or Starling, as [...]
City Moves for 18 December – Who’s switching jobs at Tritax, Wiredscore and Emporia Telecom? December 18, 2019 Today’s City Moves includes Tritax, Wiredscore and Emporia Telecom. Tritax Property investment fund manager Tritax has appointed Helen Drury as sustainability lead. Helen will be responsible for leading and further developing the sustainability strategy and performance, as well as driving its integration and implementation across the company. Her work will support not only the existing [...]
Funds need to get smart: Why the future is in residential, not retail, assets December 17, 2019 Austrian-born architect Victor Gruen is widely recognised as the father of the modern shopping centre, designing the first purpose-built outside shopping mall called Northland Mall near Detroit in 1954. The post-war economic boom allied to the rapid rise in consumerism saw shopping centres become a global phenomenon. Such was the success of the Austrian-designed, American-born [...]
Ocado set to be crowned the FTSE’s most valuable tech giant December 17, 2019 Analysts have said Ocado has the vision to become the “Microsoft of Retail tomorrow” and transition into the FTSE’s most valuable tech giant. Once finalised, the decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to de-designate Ocado as a retailer in August will make it the largest listed tech company in the UK by valuation. [...]
Sotheby’s wine business toasts record-breaking year December 17, 2019 Sotheby’s Wine toasted sales of more than $100m (£75.9m) for the second consecutive year in 2019, following a string of record-breaking auctions, as wealthy investors seek alternative asset classes. The auctioneer reported total auction sales of $118m in 2019, an increase of 20 per cent, in a year that saw Sotheby’s in London record its [...]
General Election 2019: Boris Johnson urges UK to ‘let healing begin’ December 13, 2019 This was a live blog, thank you for following along Read more: UK stocks and sterling surge as Tories triumph at pollsRead more: Election live: Who were the big MP casualties?Read more: UK housebuilders rejoice as shares rise after Tory win 04.30pm: Over and out! That’s it for today – we’re off to get some [...]
Superdry boss takes swipe at Black Friday as he launches brand revamp December 12, 2019 Superdry boss Julian Dunkerton today blasted the “madness” of blanket Black Friday discounting, vowing to reduce his company’s reliance on the sales bonanza next year. Dunkerton, who founded the struggling fashion chain in 2003, took a swipe at his rivals’ practice of slashing prices on their core ranges. Read more: Superdry swings to a £4.2m [...]
Has-beans? What Chilango’s CVA tells us about the struggling casual dining sector December 11, 2019 Mexican chain Chilango offers its customers a choice between three different types of salsa: mild, medium, or hot. Faced with those options, who chooses the middle one? This is – in a way – the conundrum facing the increasingly polarised casual dining sector. Nowadays, customers either want fast, cheap fuel, or they want a quality [...]