Bidvest directors suffer shareholder revolt over $59,000 Olympics expenses claim December 2, 2025 Three directors of Bidvest Group Ltd, South Africa’s largest conglomerate, have suffered a shareholder revolt over $59,000 of expenses they claimed for attending the Paris 2024 Olympics. The international services, trading and distribution company noted in a stock exchange statement this week that shareholders had rejected calls to reimburse the chairman and two non-executive directors [...]
CI Financial Corp. Announces Private Offering of Euro Notes December 2, 2025 CI Financial Corp. (“CI” or the “Company”) today announced that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to offer and sell (the “Offering”) in a private placement to eligible purchasers a series of its senior unsecured Euro-denominated notes (the “Notes”). Separately, the Company intends to commence an offering of senior unsecured Canadian dollar-denominated debentures [...]
Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: Ultimate way to make an entrance December 2, 2025 There are certain faux pas that wedding guests must avoid at all costs. Wearing a white dress, for example. Forgetting to silence your phone during the speeches. Revealing what really happened on the stag do. You can add to this rocking up to the ceremony with the roof down in an Aston Martin Vanquish Volante. [...]
Lineker 1, BBC 0: Goalhanger set for bumper World Cup deal with Netflix December 2, 2025 Netflix has reportedly signed Gary Lineker’s The Rest Is Football podcast in a deal which will see the former BBC presenter go up against his old employer at next year’s World Cup. Lineker is expected set to earn millions of pounds from selling the rights to the show, in which he discusses topical football matters [...]
From seaside to snow: this Croatian festival is arriving in the Alps December 2, 2025 Twenty years ago Nick Colgan and his wife Charlotte put on a party in Croatia. It went well, and was instrumental in helping establish the country’s coastline as one of the European party capitals. Their venue in Tisno has since hosted over a dozen festivals, and these days Love International, Outlook, Defected and Dimensions are [...]
On the Beach shares rocket as firm gears up for record summer December 2, 2025 On the Beach is getting itself ready for a record summer season as consumers hold on to their overseas holidays despite feeling the squeeze. The travel retailer said its Winter bookings were 15 per cent ahead of last year while bookings for next summer were “encouraging” and likely to be the highest yet. Chief executive [...]
Global Fan Network founder plugs phones for football fans December 2, 2025 A new telecoms network called Rocket Mobile has been set up exclusively for football fans. The network launched across the UK on Tuesday with the mobile provider looking to cash in on football fans feeling like they’re being priced out. The venture is backed by the Global Fan Network with coverage secured through Three. Figures [...]
Legora CEO: Troubled Robin AI ‘had two parallel business models’ December 2, 2025 The boss of legal tech firm Legora says troubled Robin AI had ‘two parallel business models’. Last month, City AM revealed London-based legal firm Robin AI was put up for sale on an insolvency marketplace after fundraising ambitions fell short. In the same month, it was hit with a winding-up petition by HMRC. The legal [...]
FTSE 100 Live: OBR chiefs face MP grilling; Food inflation slows December 2, 2025 Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) admitted its “worst failure in the 15-year history” of the fiscal watchdog on Monday. This morning, from 10am, two of its remaining spokespeople will be facing a grilling from the Treasury select committee of MPs. The sensational leak of [...]
Candy Kittens: ‘We want to be the Unilever of challenger brands’ December 2, 2025 When Ed Williams and Jamie Laing first set up Candy Kittens in 2012, they dreamt of being bought by Unilever. Now – 13 years later – they’ve bought healthy snack brand Graze from the consumer giant for a fraction of what Unilever paid for it in 2019. “Everybody’s supermarkets are dominated by big players,” co-founder [...]