Rolex wins title of consumer superbrand for a second year February 24, 2013 LUXURY watch-maker Rolex has come top of an annual chart of consumer “superbrands” for the second year running, leaving Apple and Microsoft trailing in second and third place, a poll published today shows. The iPad and iPhone-maker jumped 16 places to clinch second place, missing out on the top spot to Rolex. Over 2,900 British [...]
City Moves for 12 February 2013 | Who’s switching jobs February 11, 2013 UBS The bank’s global asset management division has appointed Gavin Lewis business development director. Lewis has over 11 years’ experience in the investment industry. He joins from Russell Investments, where he was responsible for relationship management. MN The fiduciary management firm has announced three new appointments. Christy Jesudasan joins as senior account manager after 14 [...]
No one is too talented to discard January 22, 2013 MOUSETRAPS nestle behind the sink in the gents’ toilets. Rugby training kit crowds shelves in a tiny clubhouse bar, which is improbably squeezed under railway arches. The spartan, chilly “office” upstairs is strewn with cobwebs. In many ways, humble Millwall RFC is the ideal setting to meet Stuart Lancaster. For the England rugby head coach [...]
Property firm Hammerson hires Sainsbury’s head as chairman January 14, 2013 DAVID Tyler, the chairman of Sainsbury’s, is to take on another FTSE 100 role, after it was announced yesterday he will replace John Nelson as chairman of property giant Hammerson. Tyler, who has also been a non-executive director at luxury group Burberry for more than a decade, will join the board with immediate effect on [...]
City Moves for 9 January 2013 | Who’s switching jobs January 8, 2013 Carmignac Gestion Anne Bellavoine has been appointed head of marketing at the asset management firm. She joins from Societe Generale, where she was most recently relationship manager for financial institutions. Bellavoine has over 25 years’ experience in the industry, and was additionally global head of equity sales at Societe Generale and chairwoman of SG Securities. [...]
Banks already bouncing back from a disastrous year January 1, 2013 LAST year will be remembered as a terrible one for the banking industry. In previous articles I have described the wider impact scandals such as Libor-rigging had on the reputation of the industry as a whole. However, 2013 is a new year and consumer perception could be looking up for the likes of Barclays and [...]
Festive intruders in Heron Tower’s fish tank December 20, 2012 Visitors at the City’s Heron Tower cannot miss the giant fish tank residing in the lobby. The aquarium is the largest privately owned one of its kind in Britain, and home to 67 different species of fish. It was also home to two festive guests on Wednesday, when divers donning Santa suits entered to give [...]
Making it in the big bag world December 16, 2012 A GOOD quality leather satchel was a rare find four years ago. The schoolbag market was dominated by canvas and velcro record bags that Julie Deane, founder of the hugely successful Cambridge Satchel Company, found “shabby”. So when she considered possible business ventures, satchels were high on the list. Her timing could not have been [...]
Horse racing and music tie-up scores Doogan-Hobbs top prize December 6, 2012 HORSE racing and music concerts may be par for the course these days, but there was not too long ago when they were deemed unlikely bedfellows. We’ve got entrepreneur Liz Doogan-Hobbs to thank for the now often seamless shift from the races to the dance floor. Yesterday, Doogan-Hobbs, who set up Liz Hobbs Group which [...]
Cable and Caan cheer City ladies November 20, 2012 TO the Marriott hotel in Grosvenor Square last night for the seventh annual Women of the Future awards. The City’s fairer sex were celebrated at the black tie drinks and dinner do, and unsurprisingly there was no shortage of both men and women turning out to show their appreciation for Britain’s outstanding ladies aged 35 [...]