New Bloomberg headquarters in the City put up for sale by Legal & General September 29, 2015 Bloomberg’s new European headquarters near Mansion House in the City have been put up for sale with a price tag of around £100m. Legal & General confirmed it has put its freehold interest in Bloomberg Place on the market, after more than 60 years of ownership. News of the sale comes after the vast 3.2 acre site, [...]
Gender equality: Addressing the gender imbalance in tech has to start earlier – at school September 29, 2015 Last week, research by McKinsey Global Institute found that closing the gender pay gap could add $12tn (£7.8tn) to the global economy over the next decade. The equality of women in the workplace is no doubt of huge benefit to companies and society alike – but we aren’t taking the necessary steps to secure it. [...]
Preparing for the export challenge September 29, 2015 It takes a careful plan and a lot of ambition to successfully sell in new markets START small” is not a phrase that many ambitious entrepreneurs like to hear, but this was the main piece of advice given on preparing for export at the Santander Breakthrough Box Live event in London last week. An audience [...]
Volkswagen emissions scandal: New chief executive Matthias Muller should remember that the customer is always right – but it’s your employees that drive the decision September 28, 2015 Faced with a growing global backlash, Volkswagen's new chief executive Matthias Muller will need all the friends he can find. He should start by cultivating the people who work for him. Consumers are individualists, enabled by technology and empowered by social media. They expect a lot more for their cash and are quick to shift [...]
London’s helping the jobs boom with eight per cent jump in professional vacancies September 28, 2015 The financial services sector is helping to drive a boom for professional recruitment firms, which now have eight per cent more vacancies on their books compared to last year. According to data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), permanent vacancies across finance and accounting, IT and media and marketing are all up year-on-year, [...]
This time it’s personal: Lida’s Matthew Heath discusses direct marketing and virtual cars September 27, 2015 In their landmark book The One to One Future, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers told marketers to "operate in realities, not abstractions of realities". But in 1993, when their book was published, neither could have foreseen how quickly their idea of personalised advertising would be realised. "That idea was ahead of its time," says [...]
Volkswagen warned over emissions test cheating “years ago”, German reports claim September 27, 2015 Volkswagen was warned about cheating emissions tests several years ago by the company's own staff members and by one of its suppliers, according to German media reports. The warning from internal engineers as far back as 2011 is said to have surfaced from VW's internal investigation into the scandal which has rocked the company, German [...]
Why mobile advertising is vital for cinema’s future September 25, 2015 The smartphone revolution collided with big media like a meteor, fundamentally changing the advertising landscape for good. Yet compared to other media, cinema has been barely touched by mobile advertising. Are advertisers missing a trick? Cinema’s popularity continues to grow despite films becoming ever more available elsewhere. Undoubtedly, this indicates that the experience [...]
Debenhams Croydon gets to the bottom of it September 25, 2015 Big businesses are full of sass right now. Croydon-dwellers were met with quite a treat yesterday when the self-titled “world’s grumpiest old woman” glued her posterior to the shop window of a Debenhams wearing nothing but a thong and a sash. A Debenhams spokesperson’s response was nothing short of brilliant: “It is great to [...]
Intellectual property crime falling in the UK – but social media has soared up to become a major market for counterfeit trade September 24, 2015 Social media is becoming the new market for intellectual property crooks, as new government figures released today show that intellectual property crime is falling in the UK – everywhere except social media. Some 2,272 IP crimes were reported to the independent charity Crimestoppers, a decrease of 7 per cent compared to last year. Auction sites [...]