Just Eat shares plummets as founding shareholders sell 7.7 per cent stake December 3, 2014 Takeaway site Just Eat became the biggest faller on the FTSE 250 this morning, after its founding shareholders sold a 7.7 per cent stake in the company. Shares fell 8.64 per cent to 309p in mid-morning trading as it emerged shareholders including Index Ventures, SM Trust and Vitruvian Partners sold off part of their share [...]
Heading to Dublin? Here’s how to get the most out of your trip September 2, 2016 As an Irishman living in London, it’s vitally important to maintain links with the motherland by annually submerging myself in the grand culture of my people, before returning to London fresh and thrumming with renewed Celtic energy. Today, I will share with you my meticulously curated itinerary. How to get there: Fly Aer Lingus, of course. [...]
Coffee nation: The UK’s caffeine addiction revealed as coffee chains take over May 19, 2016 Over-caffeinated Brits are fuelling a boom in coffee shops, according to new data from CBRE. Over the past 17 years, there has been a massive 20-fold increase in coffee chain outlets, from just 215 in 1998 to 4,234 in 2015. And the coffee shop trend shows no sign of abating, with an increase of six per [...]
Five things entrepreneurs and founders need to know before joining a growth business accelerator programme February 4, 2016 British entrepreneurs have a lot to be excited about at the moment. With over half a million businesses started in the UK in 2013 alone – helped by a business environment with the fewest barriers to entrepreneurship in the world – and the number growing, it’s a good time to be a British-based business. Unsurprisingly [...]
With Nigel Farage off the scene, will it be easier to reach a compromise with the EU on free movement? July 5, 2016 Rachel Cunliffe, deputy editor of CapX, says Yes. Nigel Farage posed in front of a Brexit poster featuring a road of migrants with the caption “Breaking Point”, in what has become an iconic image of the campaign. He has blamed immigrants for everything from the strain on the NHS to traffic on the M4. And after [...]
This Arizona town will let you play out your cowboy fantasy: Ride bulls, wear cool hats, walk into a saloon and have the music suddenly stop playing, the works November 4, 2016 They say “all sunshine makes a desert.” But in Arizona (299 sunny days per year; average temp 24 degrees celsius) I don’t hear anyone complaining. In fact, this state is booming, with capital Phoenix now one of the fastest growing metro areas in the US. Scottsdale, a wealthy destination town in the northeast of the [...]
Mumsnet and Netmums divide mums on Brexit in the polls ahead of live Q&A with MPs Yvette Cooper and Gisela Stuart May 24, 2016 Will it be statistics at dawn for Britain's mums? News reaches The Capitalist that Netmums, the straight-laced alternative to mothering social network Mumsnet, has polled its users and discovered that "the majority of women (mums) are planning to vote to leave, whilst 17 per cent are still undecided as to how they will vote". Around [...]
Focus On Earl’s Court: Around 7,500 new homes and a brand new high street coming to west London by 2033 October 7, 2016 Best known for its (closed) Exhibition Centre, Earl’s Court is not the sort of place you’d expect to attract million-pound investment. But it’s currently undergoing its biggest upheaval in over a century and this west London outpost is set to be a very different place in a couple of decades. The last huge change in [...]
Digital firms in Tech City UK’s Future Fifty raise £470m as international expansion increases October 21, 2015 Companies in the Future Fifty programme have raised £470m in funding during the first nine months of 2015, up 63 per cent on the total raised throughout the whole of 2014. Tech City UK, which runs the programme, said the “exceptional fundraising activity” was linked to “unprecented rates of international expansion”. Publicly funded Tech City [...]
Confidence in the bar and restaurant sector has plummeted after last month’s Brexit vote July 25, 2016 Confidence among bosses in the UK's bar, pub and restaurant sector has dived since the referendum, according to research by CGA Peach. The effect of the vote on consumer confidence, rising product costs and staff availability are leading short and long-term concerns for senior executives, the survey of 80 board-level directors found. Just 15 per [...]