Oasis and Warehouse buy London menswear website September 10, 2019 The Oasis and Warehouse group has moved into menswear for the first time with the acquisition of a London-based online fashion brand. The Idle Man, which is headquartered in Shoreditch, was founded in 2014 by former Asos buyer Oliver Tezcan. The e-commerce platform sells men’s brands and its own labels. Read more: Oasis and Warehouse [...]
City Moves for 17 September 2018 – who’s switching jobs at Hampshire Trust Bank, Pocket Living and Seedrs? September 17, 2018 Today's City Moves cover banking, property and private equity investing. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Hampshire Trust Bank Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has promoted David Alcock to managing director of the bank’s development finance division. David, who has served as deputy managing director, development finance, for four years, succeeds Robert Grigg, who [...]
City Moves for 17 September 2018 – who’s switching jobs at Hampshire Trust Bank, Pocket Living and Seedrs? September 17, 2018 Today's City Moves cover banking, property and private equity investing. Take a look at these movers and shakers: Hampshire Trust Bank Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has promoted David Alcock to managing director of the bank’s development finance division. David, who has served as deputy managing director, development finance, for four years, succeeds Robert Grigg, who [...]
Millennials should receive £10,000 from the government to tackle generation gap says commission May 8, 2018 The government should introduce a £10,000 “citizen’s inheritance” for all 25-year-olds as part of a bid to boost millennials’ prospects, according to a commission bringing together top business groups and trade union bosses. The Intergenerational Commission will also propose a new £2.3bn National Health Service levy on pensioners’ earnings, a progressive property tax to replace [...]
Spudulike closes all branches after sale collapses August 5, 2019 Fast food chain Spudulike has collapsed and shuttered all its branches, making 298 employees redundant, administrators confirmed today The casual dining group, which specialised in baked potatoes, closed all 37 of its stores on Friday after a prospective buyer pulled out of a deal to purchase the company at the last minute. Read more: Landlords [...]
Oil services deals fail to take off even years after downturn September 6, 2019 The amount of consolidation in the oil services sector is slowing, experts warned today, as companies in the sector face difficulties. The number of mergers or acquisitions (M&A) allowed to 37 in the first half of 2019, new data shows, a reduction from 64 in the same period last year. Read more: Creditors of Gulf [...]
Mortgage lending to first time buyers increases as stamp duty bites landlords January 17, 2017 Buy to let landlords continued to shun the property market towards the end of last year, allowing more first time buyers to take out home loans. The number of loans taken out by landlords fell 10 per cent year-on-year in November, according to figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), suggesting that tax changes [...]
January transfer window: Why Premier League clubs could hold off splashing the cash in mid-season January 8, 2020 The hype and bluster surrounding the Premier League transfer windows, and the shorter January version in particular, is well established. Rumour, counter-rumour and 24/7 rolling news with reporters in club car parks were designed for such occasions and have become ingrained in football culture. All the window means in practice, however, is that after five [...]
What’s happening to dividends and what next? 11 questions answered April 23, 2020 Nick Kirrage, co-head of the Value team, and Sean Markowicz, part of the Research and Analytics team, chatted with us about the future of dividends and buybacks. With so many investors reliant on dividends to boost their income or support their retirement we wanted know what’s happening now, whether investors should be concerned and what [...]
First time buyers, close your eyes – in 1996, you could buy a house in Hackney for £75,000 February 17, 2017 House prices in the London borough of Hackney have rocketed 700 per cent in the last 20 years. It may seem hard to believe now, but in 1996 the average house price in Hackney was just £75,569. Now, the average price is £606,269 – a jump of 702 per cent. Read more: This tiny house [...]