London-based food delivery startup City Pantry which serves lunches to Amazon and Google raises £4m from Octopus April 9, 2018 A startup which delivers food from local caterers directly to offices in the City has raised £4m to expand across the UK. City Pantry, which already serves clients such as Amazon, Google, Spotify and Unilever, currently serves over 20,000 meals every week to the employees of more than 500 companies. Octopus Investments led the latest [...]
Police seize bitcoins from criminal hacker in first case of its kind May 25, 2018 Police have seized around half a million pounds worth of bitcoin from a “prolific” hacker in the first case of its kind for the Met. Grant West was responsible for attacks on more than 100 companies worldwide, obtaining the financial data of tens of thousands of people though phishing scams, which he would then sell [...]
Stevenage FC launch share offering as they seek £1.2m boost to promotion ambitions June 3, 2019 For clubs scrambling to scale the ultra-competitive English football pyramid it can pay to go against the grain. Ambitious Stevenage FC are doing just that with an innovative equity offering designed to give them a leg up into League One and, later, the Championship. Chairman and majority owner Phil Wallace hopes to raise £1.2m by [...]
Din Tai Fung Covent Garden review: Precision-engineering these Taiwanese dumplings comes at the cost of soul March 28, 2019 Eight years of writing restaurant reviews has not yet propelled me to culinary stardom. Nobody has asked me to be a judge on Celebrity Bake Off. Masterchef has never called. But I do have one claim to fame: I star in the staff training video for Taiwanese dumpling sensation Din Tai Fung. It happened in [...]
KPMG partners take 11 per cent pay cut as Covid-19 eats into profits February 3, 2021 Partners at KPMG have had their pay cut by an average of 11 per cent, from some £640,000 to £572,000, as Covid-19 hit profits and revenue at the firm. KPMG’s chairman was paid £1.7m for the year, a decrease of 14 per cent on 2019. Partners across Big Four firms saw pay cuts in [...]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange given 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail May 1, 2019 Julian Assange was this morning sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail by hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years. Read more: MPs urge government to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden The Wikileaks founder entered the embassy in 2012, when facing an extradition order to Sweden over allegations of attempted rape. [...]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange given 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail May 1, 2019 Julian Assange was this morning sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail by hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years. Read more: MPs urge government to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden The Wikileaks founder entered the embassy in 2012, when facing an extradition order to Sweden over allegations of attempted rape. [...]
That’s a wrap! Tortilla’s boss, Richard Morris, talks about the business of burritos September 10, 2018 London's food scene attracts all sorts. Whatever you desire, it’s not hard to find someone who’s cooking it, fusing it with other cuisines, or serving it alongside an artisanal craft beer. From pop-ups and market stalls, to Michelin-star restaurants, the capital is a hotbed of culinary creation. One such company is Mexican-food-maker Tortilla. 2018 marks [...]
Britain should be proud to be a nation of immigrant entrepreneurs July 9, 2018 Britain isn’t a nation of shopkeepers. We’re a nation of entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs, and a magnet for entrepreneurial talent from around the world, as revealed by the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) – the world’s most authoritative comparative study of entrepreneurial activity. The findings from Aston University in partnership with NatWest reveal that 8.7 [...]
Fix the High Street June 20, 2019 I spend a lot of my life on the move. I live near Milton Keynes, my office is in London, and I spend half my time visiting our bases in New York and Los Angeles. I’ve got a lot of air miles, a screwed-up body clock and a ruthlessly controlled diary – as well as [...]