The best places to find Cyber Monday deals 2014: John Lewis, Tesco, Asos, Marks and Spencer, Game, Samsung, Halfords and Morrisons December 1, 2014 Beleaguered shoppers are still nursing their bruises and retailers are still fixing up their stores following UK's biggest-ever "Black Friday", yet the deals keep on coming. Tomorrow is "Cyber Monday", the internet's biggest shopping day of the year when online retailers offer consumers another chance to grab a bargain as the Christmas shopping season [...]
Balfour Beatty share price climbs after £1bn offer for investment arm is confirmed December 1, 2014 Balfour Beatty’s share price has risen over five per cent in early morning trading, after John Laing Infrastructure Fund (JLIF) confirmed plans to make a £1bn offer for its investment arm. Following reports suggesting John Laing was eyeing Balfour’s portfolio of public-private partnership assets, the City fund moved to confirm its offer this morning. [...]
Aberdeen Asset Management profits edge up after Scottish Widows acquisition December 1, 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) posted slightly higher profits as it said it had weathered a "volatile" year. Figures for the year to the end of September showed underlying profit before tax of £490.3m, up from £482.7m last year. Statutory profit before tax fell from £390.3m last year to £354.6m, partly because of the purchase of [...]
Vodafone eyes up Tesco’s video service Blinkbox November 30, 2014 Vodafone is eyeing up Tesco’s video streaming service Blinkbox following its chief executive’s comments that the firm intends to push into home broadband and TV in the UK next year. While the mobile operator is looking at Blinkbox, along with a number of other interested parties, it is “nowhere near final terms on a deal,” [...]
Barclays unwraps video-link service November 30, 2014 BARCLAYS took a leap into the future yesterday by unveiling the UK’s first known face-to-face video banking service. Barclays Premier account holders will get access to the service on 8 December with other customers having to wait until next year to use the service, which lets them talk to Barclays staff over a video link [...]
Ex-BP boss Lord John Browne gets a helping hand with Facebook from COO Sheryl Sandberg November 30, 2014 If you're going to get help with your new Facebook page, it doesn't get any better than having Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of the social network giving you a hand. That, of course, is unrealistic for most of us – but not Lord John Browne it seems. The former BP boss-turned-LGBT activist tweeted yesterday, [...]
John Laing Infrastructure Fund eyes £1bn Balfour Beatty portfolio November 30, 2014 Britain’s biggest construction company could be about to break up. John Laing Infrastructure Fund is weighing up a £1bn bid for Balfour Beatty’s investment arm, according to reports. The Sunday Times reports that John Laing Infrastructure Fund is considering an offer for Balfour’s portfolio of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts. The PFI contracts [...]
FaceTime with your bank? Barclays is venturing into video banking for busy customers in major online move November 30, 2014 Barclays is making another major move into digital with the launch of a video banking service that will let customers speak face to face with advisers instead of visiting a bricks and mortar branch. The bank will offer a round the clock service to better fit in with people’s lives in what it says is [...]
Merlin Entertainments will open the first Legoland theme park in South Korea in 2017 November 28, 2014 Merlin Entertainments, owner of Alton Towers and Madame Tussauds, has announced that it will be building a £172m Legoland theme park in South Korea. The company, which floated last year, said it will be funding just under a third of the project. The rest will be paid for by a property company that's owned by a consortium [...]
Drax and Intergen slapped with £39m fine from Ofgem November 28, 2014 Ofgem has hit Drax, the operator of the UK's largest coal-fired power plant, and Intergen, which operates three power stations in the UK, with a £39m fine after they failed to meet targets on energy efficiency. The £28m Drax will be made to pay is the largest ever fine handed down by Ofgem. Intergen, meanwhile, [...]