Good cluck: US fried chicken chain Popeyes to open first UK store March 23, 2021 US fried chicken chain Popeyes has today announced it will launch its first UK store this year, with plans to open hundreds of branches across the country. The fast food firm will open the store by the end of 2021, it said this morning, and is targeting 350 sites across the UK within the next [...]
Snakes and Ladders: Who is moving jobs in the City this week? November 25, 2020 Snakes and Ladders provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Firms are continuing to adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic as they vie to be in prime position to recover from the economic fallout of the crisis. This week, [...]
Crowdcube launches IPO platform for retail investors June 1, 2021 Crowdcube has today announced the launch of a new IPO platform as minister plan to reduce the dominance of institutional investors in listings. The UK crowdfunding company allows retail investors to xxx . It will offer a service for public as well as private share sales from this summer, the Financial Times reported. “These community [...]
To make the UK a tech leader, retail money must be given more access to private investments April 15, 2021 It should be a good thing that Oxford Nanopore, Deliveroo, and Cazoo are all listing, regardless of their early stock market performance. But who in particular will be celebrating? It’s not clear whether much of the value created will be seen by the person on the street – and if we really want the broader [...]
Pub operator Fuller, Smith & Turner raises £54m through share placing March 31, 2021 Pub operator Fuller, Smith & Turner raised nearly £54m today after completing a share placing in a bid to bolster its books. The pub and hotels company said a total of 6,455,447 placing shares had been placed by its bookrunner Numis at 830 pence per share. It represents approximately a fifth of the company’s shares [...]
Aldi to extend click and collect to 200 stores ahead of Christmas November 9, 2020 Aldi has announced that it will extend its click and collect trial to more than 200 stores by Christmas as the budget supermarket seeks to capitalise on the boom in demand for online shopping. The German discounter launched the service from one Midlands store in September, before rolling it out to a further 17 branches [...]
Revealed: Amazon to open 260 supermarkets across UK as it plots to take on Tesco and Sainsbury’s directly November 17, 2021 Amazon has developed detailed plans to storm the UK supermarket sector as the e-commerce is planning to open hundreds of cashierless grocery stores across the country in the next three years. More than 260 Amazon-owned and run supermarkets are to be launched before the end of 2024, namely 60 in 2022, another 100 per year [...]
Cazoo goes public: Will it be a hat-trick of triumphs for Alex Chesterman? August 25, 2021 For some petrolheads, how quickly a car can go from nought to 60 miles per hour is a good indication of its quality. If one were to measure Cazoo on a similar scale, the results would be somewhere off the speedometer. On Friday the used car marketplace will go public in New York in a [...]
Cazoo goes public: Will it be a hattrick of triumphs for Alex Chesterman? : CityAM August 25, 2021 For some petrolheads, how quickly a car can go from nought to 60 miles per hour is a good indication of its quality. If one were to measure Cazoo on a similar scale, the results would be somewhere off the speedometer. Also Read: Cazoo sees revenue grow sevenfold as New York listing nears On Friday [...]
Focus On: Islington – An area that has all a savvy buyer needs November 5, 2021 One of those neighbourhoods that has it all, Islington combines lively restaurants and bars, inviting pubs and attractive residential areas with Georgian townhouses, garden squares and quaint terraces. Less bourgeois than west London, it attracts a mix of high-earning middle class millennials and boomers, families, and hipster house sharers with a liking for arts and [...]