Win talk from South Pole team December 12, 2013 PRINCE Harry and his team are due to arrive at the South Pole this afternoon having braved the Antarctic extremes to raise money for Walking With The Wounded. But the push to support ex-servicemen and women doesn’t end there. The charity is calling for City workers to do their bit by signing up to Walking [...]
Xbox One sells a million consoles in first weekend November 24, 2013 MICROSOFT sold more than 1m new Xbox One consoles over the weekend, breaking its previous record with the Xbox 360 and matching Sony’s PlayStation 4 (PS4) launch numbers from last weekend. “We are humbled and grateful for the excitement of Xbox fans around the world,” said Xbox vice president of marketing and strategy Yusuf Mehdi, [...]
Data driven February 9, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks to Havas Media’s Paul Frampton UNUSUALLY for the media world, Paul Frampton, chief executive of Havas Media, has only worked at one group over the course of his career. He talks to City A.M. about the cultural and leadership changes his industry must make to prepare for a fast-changing media landscape. How [...]
Westfield turns five years old October 29, 2013 WESTFIELD London is celebrating its fifth birthday today having racked up £4bn in retail sales and 130m visitors since it first opened its doors 2008. The Australian retailer recently won consent to push ahead with £1bn plans to extend the shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, with John Lewis understood to be close to agreeing to [...]
Christmas toys to inspire little professionals October 13, 2013 GONE are the days, it seems, when young boys and girls dreamed vaguely of becoming a policeman or ballerina. These days, according to John Lewis’s top five toy list, those careers are being moulded by their favourite television programmes and the stars they see. According to the retail store, youngsters aspiring to be the next [...]
Bottom Line: Christmas comes early for King November 13, 2013 THEY say good things come to those who wait. Yesterday, almost a week after rival retailers Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and Morrisons released their Christmas adverts, the UK’s fastest growing supermarket revealed its own tear-jerker – a three-and-a-half minute mini-film that aired during last night’s Coronation Street. The film, which shows clips of ordinary [...]
Snow hits John Lewis sales January 25, 2013 Retailer John Lewis this morning cautioned that heavy snowfall across the country last week hit sales. Sales rose 6.7 per cent to £59.5m in the week to January 19, slipping back from growth of 18.9 per cent the week previously – the first full week of their clearance sale. Simon Russell, director of retail operations [...]
January transfer window 2015: How did the Premier League’s activity compare to previous years? February 3, 2015 Was this year’s January transfer window the most boring yet? That was the sentiment in the press today as fans and journalists alike bemoaned the “dudline day” that saw little in the way of shock moves of big name signings. Over £144m was spent by Premier League clubs across the month, who appeared unable or [...]
Mapped: Which Phones 4u stores are being shut down? September 23, 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed the addresses of the 360-plus Phones 4u stores that are being shut down, and the number of staff being made redundant as the business is wound down. At this stage 1,679 people will lose their jobs, with a further 720 people staying on to help with the wind down. Some [...]
Mix it up: Stir in a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down November 12, 2013 @philip_salter Flourishing species ultimately perish, rising civilisations fall in the end, and conquering nations are eventually defeated; but human beings – at least as long as we walk this planet – will always want to get drunk. Though getting inebriated is a constant, the way we imbibe changes over space and time. And, like everything [...]