Management: Meet national culture November 20, 2013 A new book argues that cultural values can make or break a corporate strategy AMERICA has long been seen as a graveyard for British retailers. In 2001, Marks & Spencer sold its Brooks Brothers US chain for a third of the price it paid for it. Sainsbury’s bailed out of its Shaw’s business in 2004. [...]
Eggsclusive: We use the Walkie Scorchie light beam to fry an egg September 3, 2013 The developers of the Walkie Scorchie skyscraper – aka 20 Fenchurch Street – had hoped their building would be known for its striking design and its blue chip clients. But instead City A.M. has revealed how the building has begun emitting a curious ray of light, started melting cars, set a carpet on fire and cracked [...]
Eggsclusive: We use the Walkie Scorchie light beam to fry an egg | City A.M. September 6, 2013 (Laura Lean/City AM) The developers of the Walkie Scorchie skyscraper – aka 20 Fenchurch Street – had hoped their building would be known for its striking design and its blue chip clients. But instead over the week City A.M. has revealed how the building has begun emitting a curious ray of light, started melting cars, set [...]
Eggsclusive: We use the Walkie Scorchie light beam to fry an egg | City A.M. September 6, 2013 (Laura Lean/City AM) The developers of the Walkie Scorchie skyscraper – aka 20 Fenchurch Street – had hoped their building would be known for its striking design and its blue chip clients. But instead over the week City A.M. has revealed how the building has begun emitting a curious ray of light, started melting cars, set [...]
Eggsclusive: We use the Walkie Scorchie light beam to fry an egg | City A.M. September 6, 2013 (Laura Lean/City AM) The developers of the Walkie Scorchie skyscraper – aka 20 Fenchurch Street – had hoped their building would be known for its striking design and its blue chip clients. But instead over the week City A.M. has revealed how the building has begun emitting a curious ray of light, started melting cars, set [...]
Sainsbury’s wins battle of the big supermarkets with rise in sales… October 2, 2013 SAINSBURY’S chief executive Justin King yesterday conceded that the days of Britons shopping at one supermarket were over as the grocer posted strong second quarter sales yesterday ahead of rivals. King said the growing strength of discounters such as Aldi reflected this change in shopping behaviour. “I should think all of our shoppers are shopping [...]
Sainsbury’s to open dark store to meet online demand October 13, 2013 J SAINSBURY is to open its first dark store to support fast-growing demand for its online grocery service in London and the south east. The dark store – so-called because it is not open to the public and only fulfils online orders – will open in Bromley-By-Bow, east London, within the next few years, the [...]
BT executive Liv Garfield joins Tesco board February 13, 2013 OLIVIA Garfield, chief executive of BT’s Openreach, is to join the board of Tesco as a non-executive director, the supermarket giant announced yesterday. Garfield has been with BT since 2002 and head of its superfast broadband division since 2011. Tesco said she will bring “valuable experience of new and emerging technologies” when she joins the [...]
Tesco in new online push January 21, 2013 TESCO intensified its dotcom push yesterday by opening its fifth “dark store” near Crawley, West Sussex. The dotcom store, which will create 700 jobs, will serve only online shoppers. The supermarket typically offers an instore pick-up service for its online customers, but is ramping up its dotcom store presence thanks to growing demand in and [...]
Barclays wins Amec as latest broking client September 25, 2013 BARCLAYS continued the growth of its corporate broking business by winning the mandate to act as joint broker to Amec, the FTSE 100 listed engineering group, alongside Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML). The appointment comes just days after Amec abandoned plans to make a £700m bid for Kentz, the oil services group. Amec was [...]