Southeastern gives staff gift vouchers for dealing with travel chaos at London Bridge – as seven failures cause yet more commuter misery this morning April 13, 2015 Train operator Southeastern has given 4,000 members of staff shopping vouchers to thank them for dealing with the ongoing chaos at London Bridge – but there is still no word on passenger compensation. The employees were given £25 gift vouchers, which can be used at shops including Sainsbury's Boots and Mothercare, in response to the [...]
Glaxosmithkline China dismisses more than 100 over bribery scandal that cost company £300m March 7, 2015 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has booted more than 100 staff in China on the back of its investigations into the corruption scandal that ended with it being fined £300m last year. The company was found guilty last September of bribing doctors to prescribe its medicines, and began an internal investigation to ascertain the extent of the corruption. [...]
Alliance Boots boosted by new Walgreen partnership synergies May 15, 2014 HEALTHCARE giant Alliance Boots, owner of the high street Boots stores, has found more synergies than expected so far with American pharmacy chain Walgreen, as it posted a 18.5 per cent rise in underlying profit yesterday. The firm reported sales for the year to March that rose 4.3 per cent to £23.4bn, with £840m in [...]
Toulon primed to clinch first ever European hat-trick April 30, 2015 HARRY MADLEY PREVIEWS THE ALL-FRENCH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS CUP FINAL AND BEN CLEMINSON LOOKS AT TOTTENHAM V MAN CITY THE INAUGURAL European Champions Cup final between French pair Toulon and Clermont Auvergne will take place at Twickenham tomorrow. The clash is the seventh major European final between teams from the same country and, with a heavy [...]
Man City can continue winning spree over Spurs on Sunday April 30, 2015 AT FIRST glance Tottenham look a big price at 14/5 to see off a Manchester City side with nothing but pride left to play for in Sunday’s clash at White Hart Lane. The dream of successive titles went a long time ago for City but, with Liverpool slipping up of late, Betway are not even [...]
Car review: Why BMW’s Alpina XD3, the fastest 4×4 ever made, is the smart choice June 1, 2015 It’s funny how meanings change. In the early 1990s, diesel was a dirty word. But then diesel got clean, went green, became the low-CO2 champion to save the planet – and the Congestion Charge. Then scientists started noticing how London’s nitrogen oxide levels were spiking. Indeed, Oxford Street is one of the dirtiest roads on [...]
Jimmy Choo’s a shoe-in with post-IPO revenue rise January 23, 2015 Jimmy Choo net revenue rose 12 per cent to £299m in the year to December, marking a positive start to its London Stock Exchange listing. Foreign exchange fluctuations had some effect on the numbers however with revenue climbing 6.2 per cent on a constant currency basis. The firm said Asia and Japan continued to deliver [...]
Car review: The Tesla Model S P85D is seriously fast, with an “Insane” mode to scare off its rivals April 13, 2015 Tesla, the darling of the alternative-power car makers, has made more progress in a few short years than the likes of Ford, General Motors and even Toyota when it comes to electric cars. The American firm, co-founded by Elon Musk of PayPal fame, has not only made great strides technology-wise, but has also achieved much [...]
Lay off the personal attacks on Ed Miliband, Chuka Umunna urges February 3, 2015 Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna pleaded with business leaders to lay off from making personal attacks on Labour leader Ed Miliband as the row between his party and business threatened to spiral out of control. Umunna said recent comments by the Boots chief Stefano Pessina, and then by Stuart Rose, the former chairman of [...]
High St retailers propel FTSE 100 to a new high – London Report April 15, 2015 GAINS at High Street retailers pushed the FTSE100 to a new record high yesterday as Next, Dixons Carphone and Sports Direct all had good news to share. Dixons Carphone, the electricals and mobile phone retailer, was up two per cent after German mobile telephone company Drillisch agreed to buy the UK company’s chain of telecoms [...]