FIVE MINUTES WITH JONATHAN SAUNDERS | BY HELENA LEE October 25, 2011 Jonathan Saunders, the Scottish fashion designer, and Grey Goose vodka have teamed up to help raise money for the Elton John AIDS foundation. The designer, who has previously worked with Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and Phoebe Philo at Chloe, has created outfits for staff at the Grey Goose Winter Ball, which is on Saturday. Saunders [...]
Shell pipeline still leaking August 18, 2011 ROYAL Dutch Shell said it was continuing to make “good progress” fixing a pipeline that is still leaking into the North Sea from its Gannet Alpha platform, as Britain’s biggest oil spill for a decade ran into its eighth day. Shell estimates that around 1,300 barrels have escaped into the water 180km off the Scottish [...]
US buyers fuel UK M&A activity July 31, 2011 EXPANDING US corporates such as Kraft accounted for almost half of overseas purchases of UK listed companies last year, a leading City law firm said today. Groups based in the US acquired 22 UK listed companies in the twelve months to the end of June, an increase of 83 per cent on the number of [...]
Keep football safe from the stats bores September 7, 2011 FOOTBALL magazine FourFourTwo has launched Stats Zone, which will “change the way you watch football”. For the worst, if you ask me. I can’t stand the kind of “name tag and goody bag” corporate football fan who spends all game staring at his iPhone working out pass rates and possession percentages. If you think football [...]
Keep football safe from the stats bores September 7, 2011 FOOTBALL magazine FourFourTwo has launched Stats Zone, which will “change the way you watch football”. For the worst, if you ask me. I can’t stand the kind of “name tag and goody bag” corporate football fan who spends all game staring at his iPhone working out pass rates and possession percentages. If you think football [...]
Double the wow with a Costa Rica and Nicaragua duo September 11, 2011 SEPARATED only by a narrow land border and united by a single language, the two Central American countries of Costa Rica and Nicaragua couldn’t be more different. On one side Costa Rica, with its well-developed, well-trodden tourist trail, offers unrivalled wildlife-watching opportunities and some of the most luxurious hotels in the region. On the other, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 11, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES LI & FUNG UPBEAT OVER THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Li & Fung, the Hong Kong-headquartered sourcing company for retailers such as Walmart and Debenhams, sounded an upbeat note on Thursday, asserting that business conditions were “not at all” like those in 2008”, despite the current uncertainty over prospects for the global economy. Bruce Rockowitz, [...]
Three ways to get the trading edge August 24, 2011 IN the high-frequency forex-trading sphere, it is latency of executions that grabs the headlines – that is the delay between an order being sent to a venue, and the venue executing that order. But as Dan Hubscher, industry marketing manager for Progress Software points out, investing in low latency trading execution systems is simply your [...]
What’s hot in Edinburgh this summer July 28, 2011 EDINBURGH’S annual merry-go-round of theatre, comedy, dance, opera, street performance, art and much more gets underway next week. On the Fringe, one of the major draws this year will be a show directed by the Hollywood film star John Malkovich [pictured below], and starring the actor Julian Sands. The show, devised by the two men, [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS August 8, 2011 MAKING THE CUT ON PARK LANE Time was when about the best a Londoner could expect in terms of steak was the kind of abomination served in an Aberdeen Steak House. No longer. In the last 18 months, London has been sprouting quality steak restaurants in droves, and the latest to the party is Wolfgang [...]