Pinewood studios in £200m expansion March 31, 2015 PINEWOOD studios is going to market to raise £30m as part of an ambitious £200m expansion plan for its Buckinghamshire base. On top of a rights issue, the studio said yesterday that a banking consortium including HSBC and Lloyds had put up £135m of credit as part of plans to double its site size. The [...]
Pinewood studios launches £30m share issue and calls action on its blockbuster £200m expansion March 31, 2015 THE STUDIO home of James Bond, Harry Potter and Star Wars is going to the market to raise £30m through a share issue for an ambitious expansion plan, it said yesterday. Pinewood studios plans to place eight million shares at 375p per share, with N+1 Singer acting as sole adviser and bookrunner. The £30m will be [...]
James Bond studio Pinewood announces £30m fundraising to double its capacity March 31, 2015 It's the studio where James Bond has battled villains, Harry Potter has cast off his muggle side and Superman has proven, once and for all, that he's definitely not a bird or a plane. Now Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire has announced plans for a £30m share issue to raise funds to help it build extra [...]
Bloomsbury books good trading forecast March 18, 2015 BLOOMSBURY, the publisher of the Harry Potter books, yesterday said it traded in line with its expectations for the year to end-February, noting trading in its second half “has been good”. Bloomsbury will announce its full-year results on 19 May.
World Book Day 2015: Four classic business books you should read now March 5, 2015 It's World Book Day – and although the nation's children are traipsing into school dressed as Harry Potter, the BFG, etc, it also provides grown-ups with an opportunity to stock up their bookshelf with some of business' most inspiring reads. When it comes to business, we all need advice sometimes – here are the classic [...]
UK inflation: Last time it was this low, it was measured by the prices of swiss roll, tracksuits and luncheon meat February 17, 2015 The last time inflation was this low, shoppers' baskets were overflowing with Swiss rolls, shell suits and tins of luncheon meat. Yum. Prices rose just 0.3 per cent in January, the latest ONS figures reveal, the lowest since records began, and even slower than the previous low of December. Back in 1989 when those records [...]
Spider-Man’s Marvel return is a business win for both Sony and Disney – here’s why February 10, 2015 Marvel’s friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is coming home. Sony Pictures and the Walt Disney company, which owns Marvel Studios, have agreed a deal to share the Spider-Man franchise. Despite being one of Marvel’s most iconic characters, the film rights to Spider-Man have belonged to Sony’s Hollywood division since it paid around $7m (£4.6m) [...]
Odeon is selling one Fifty Shades of Grey ticket every seven seconds – and it’s preparing for a feeding frenzy in the film’s opening weekend February 9, 2015 Much-mocked it may be, but it seems cinema audiences are taking the new cringe fest Fifty Shades of Grey movie, which opens this weekend, pretty seriously. So seriously, in fact, cinema chain Odeon is selling one ticket to the movie every seven seconds. If it keeps selling tickets at this rate, Fifty Shades will beat Skyfall and the [...]
Creative industries added £80bn to the UK economy in 2013 January 14, 2015 Movie stars, music mavericks, models and actors are all helping the UK economy sparkle, with creative industries contributing an all time high of £76.9bn to the UK economy. The creative economy grew three times faster than the economy as a whole, with gross value surging 9.9 per cent, according to the report released by the [...]
Fawning over Canary Wharf’s light show January 7, 2015 Is that Harry Potter’s patronus? No, nor is it someone’s leftover Christmas decorations. It’s art and it’s in the Wharf. Canary Wharf has welcomed in the last of the dark winter nights with a delightfully luminous exhibition. Arriving and leaving work in the dark ain’t so bad for Wharfers this January. The exhibit lasts until [...]