Beetham Tower site is put back on the market by administrators November 16, 2010 THE SITE earmarked for the 53-storey Beetham Tower on the south bank has been put back on the market by administrators BDO. The site at 1 Blackfriars Road, once owned by Beetham Organisation and Russian developer Mirax, will be formally marketed by CB Richard Ellis in early 2011. Royal Bank of Scotland placed the developers’ [...]
New non-exec for Lloyds November 16, 2010 LLOYDS has added a new non-executive director to its board, with current-Victrex chair Anita Frew joining from 1 December. Victrex is a FTSE 200 manufacturing firm, but Frew also has experience in investment and banking from her time at the Royal Bank of Scotland and through her non-executive position at Aberdeen Asset Management. Her appointment [...]
New non-exec for Lloyds November 16, 2010 LLOYDS has added a new non-executive director to its board, with current-Victrex chair Anita Frew joining from 1 December. Victrex is a FTSE 200 manufacturing firm, but Frew also has experience in investment and banking from her time at the Royal Bank of Scotland and through her non-executive position at Aberdeen Asset Management. Her appointment [...]
Living the life of a laird in a private Scottish stronghold August 7, 2011 ACKERGILL Tower is the sort of place that ought to have a permanent backdrop of lighting forks and thunderclaps. An asymmetrical block of granite turrets and chimneys, it’s a brooding, lonely obelisk that pierces the flat coastal landscape at Scotland’s most northerly tip. John O’Groats is just up the road, the next headland over is [...]
Living the life of a laird in a private Scottish stronghold August 7, 2011 ACKERGILL Tower is the sort of place that ought to have a permanent backdrop of lighting forks and thunderclaps. An asymmetrical block of granite turrets and chimneys, it’s a brooding, lonely obelisk that pierces the flat coastal landscape at Scotland’s most northerly tip. John O’Groats is just up the road, the next headland over is [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 14, 2010 IG Group IG Group has appointed Christopher Hill as its new chief financial officer from April next year. In his new role he will also be a member of the group’s board, helping to make strategic decisions about the company. To take the job, he will be moving over from his role as CFO of Travelex, [...]
Metro Bank hires former Abbey director to board November 2, 2010 METRO Bank, the first new start-up bank to hit the UK high street in 100 years, yesterday said it had hired Graeme Hardie, the former executive director for retail banking at Abbey National, as a non-executive director. Hardie is an old hand in the retail and business banking world. Prior to joining Abbey, where he [...]
JJB warns it may breach debt facilities December 2, 2010 JJB SPORTS warned yesterday it could breach the financial covenants of its £25m revolving credit facility with Bank of Scotland (BoS) by the end of January next year citing continued difficult trading conditions as the main reason. The trading statement comes less than a month after the firm, which employs 6,300 staff nationwide, put out [...]
JJB warns it may breach debt facilities December 2, 2010 JJB SPORTS warned yesterday it could breach the financial covenants of its £25m revolving credit facility with Bank of Scotland (BoS) by the end of January next year citing continued difficult trading conditions as the main reason. The trading statement comes less than a month after the firm, which employs 6,300 staff nationwide, put out [...]
MAN GROUP ROLLS OUT THE BARREL FOR NEW HQ July 14, 2011 IT HAS only been three months since George Osborne spent the morning at Nomura to declare the Japanese bank’s new offices officially open. But the chancellor was yesterday back in the Lower Thames Street area for the unveiling of Man Group’s new global HQ at Riverbank House, next-door to Nomura at 2 Swan Lane. “I’m [...]