BACK IN THE SADDLE FOR PROPERTY’S EPIC CYCLE March 4, 2012 AS MEMBERS of the property world flock into Cannes today for a week of networking at the industry’s MIPIM conference, 86 of their peers are taking a slower route through the French countryside by taking part in the six-day Aedas Cycle to Cannes charity ride. Executives from firms including Land Securities, Capital and Counties, and [...]
MEDIA EXEC BRINGS £1M PERUVIAN BID TO SOHO February 20, 2012 MARTIN MORALES was headhunted by Apple as one of the four founders of iTunes Europe and sat on the board of The Walt Disney Company. But Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant behind a plain black door at 17 Frith Street in Soho, is his life’s work. Since leaving Disney in July 2011, the half-Peruvian Morales has [...]
MEDIA EXEC BRINGS £1M PERUVIAN BID TO SOHO February 20, 2012 MARTIN MORALES was headhunted by Apple as one of the four founders of iTunes Europe and sat on the board of The Walt Disney Company. But Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant behind a plain black door at 17 Frith Street in Soho, is his life’s work. Since leaving Disney in July 2011, the half-Peruvian Morales has [...]
Scottish house price dip means good value buys February 16, 2012 SCOTLAND: land of hunting, shooting, fishing…and fortified castles set amid hundreds of acres selling for less than £3m, the cost of a mere flat in certain parts of London. As Jamie Macnab, of Savills’ Edinburgh office, says: “Someone said to me once that four square miles of London is worth more than the whole of [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING February 13, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES HONDA TO ACCELERATE OUTPUT IN EUROPE Honda says it will nearly double its production of cars in Europe as it seeks to reduce its reliance on imports form Japan and recover from a disastrous year. The carmaker’s European boss said that Honda aimed to increase production at its main European plant in Swindon [...]
MPs’ fury at £25bn tax owed December 19, 2011 THE TAXMAN is chasing more than £25bn from Britain’s top businesses, according to a damning report from MPs published today. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) also appears to be “too cosy” with large companies and has refused to give “straight answers” to questions, claims the Public Accounts Committee, which has produced the study on tax [...]
MPs’ fury at £25bn tax owed December 19, 2011 THE TAXMAN is chasing more than £25bn from Britain’s top businesses, according to a damning report from MPs published today. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) also appears to be “too cosy” with large companies and has refused to give “straight answers” to questions, claims the Public Accounts Committee, which has produced the study on tax [...]
DAVID CAMERON PERFORMS BONUS U-TURN AT TOP BUSINESS SUMMIT February 23, 2012 TO MANSION House for a royal visit from HRH the Prince of Wales and Prime Minister David Cameron, who were all there for the Business in the Community summit. Cameron used his speech to claim that big business was a “powerful force for social progress” and to launch a scathing attack on “anti-business snobbery”. But [...]
REFORM IS THE STORY OF BANKING BESTSELLER February 1, 2012 EVER WONDERED how former BP and Lehman Brothers spinner Andrew Gowers ended up as a strategic consultant to the Association for Financial Markets in Europe? The appointment of the one-time FT editor last November was a “seamless transition”, says AFME’s CEO Simon Lewis, from Gowers editing the body’s collection of essays on reforming Europe’s financial [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING February 16, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES HEDGE FUND PIONEER BACK FOR ASIA VENTURE William Bollinger, one of the pioneers of London’s hedge fund industry, has come out of retirement to launch a new venture – in Singapore. A protégé of the renowned investor Julian Robertson and a former donor to the Labour party, Mr Bollinger set up Egerton Capital, [...]