Just Eat is off to sizzling start on the market April 3, 2014 SHARES in Just Eat, the online food takeaway group, yesterday finished their first day of trading 23p above an already high issue price, to value a group with underlying earnings of £14m at an astonishing £1.6bn. When the group first started discussing the possibility of floating earlier this year, the assumption was it would fetch [...]
British men take in far more calories than they realise, study shows October 5, 2015 The average man in the UK heavily underestimates the number of calories he takes in each day, new research shows. A study of 2,000 men suggested it's not unusual for them to put away double the number of calories they think they are eating. Most of those questioned underestimated the calories in a [...]
London Technology Week: Tech City is an awesome success story combining the best of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, New York and DC June 16, 2015 I emigrated from Silicon Valley a little more than ten years ago to work at a very young startup at the time, Skype. It was so new then that I spent months correcting friends’ pronunciation of the company name from Skype-ee to Skype. At that time I was exasperated at the dearth of candidates for [...]
Top tips for choosing a mortgage broker and how to get the best out of them February 23, 2016 Graham Lock, CEO of House Network Research rates and reputable brokers In the digital age, you can gain access to a variety of comparison websites such as moneysupermarket.com or comparethemarket.com, without the need for extensive credit checks, which would damage your hard-earned credit rating. If you come across specialist terminology, check out some of the [...]
Will Ukip break up? These bookmakers think Ukip could disband and Nigel Farage could step down December 4, 2015 The UK Independence Party has been left reeling in the aftermath of the Oldham West and Royton by-election, in which it launched a mammoth campaign, but only garnered 23 per cent of the vote. And after mere hours of the result, one bookmaker has shifted their odds on the chance of Ukip disbanding altogether. Star [...]
Uber’s new “destinations” feature means anyone can be a driver November 16, 2015 Not content with just offering rides on demand in hundreds of cities worldwide, wildly popular ride-sharing app Uber is now moving into carpooling. The company’s new “destinations” feature will allow drivers to set their destination and pick up a passenger, so drivers heading in a specific direction can choose to pick up passengers heading the [...]
Cadbury is changing another chocolate iconic recipe – this time it’s Fruit & Nut November 3, 2015 Bad news, chocolate lovers: Cadbury is changing another iconic recipe. Fresh from the backlash over the changes to its Creme Eggs – resulting in the brand having egg on its face – and dismay over the shrinking sizes of its variety boxes Roses and Heroes parent company Mondelez is preparing for another battle – this time over its much-loved Fruit [...]
The 12-week total body transformation workout and exercise plan: week 2 October 19, 2015 What were your goals? I’m like a lot of people: I played sports throughout my early 20s, then I got a proper job in the City and started working late nights and going for after-work drinks. I’d just let myself go, basically. I was eating loads of take away, had got myself a beer belly. [...]
Working Lunch: One Sixty City September 30, 2015 Melissa York on the best places to eat during office hours in the City and Canary Wharf One Sixty City 9 Stoney lane, E1 WHAT? A slick American smokehouse for suits who love to eat meat. And we mean a lot of meat. Ribs, beef brisket, pulled pork and steak is the order [...]
Collins Word of the Year 2015: Binge-watch beats clean-eating, manspreading and dadbod November 5, 2015 If you decided to binge on box-sets rather than food this year, you might have inadvertently helped determine the Collins Word of the Year. Binge-watching has been named the word for 2015 after lexicographers saw a 200 per cent increase in its usage, which describes watching "a large number of television programmes (especially all the [...]