Domino’s Pizza serves up a feast as online ordering drives sales July 29, 2014 Pizza seller Domino’s impressed its investors yesterday with a strong set of results fuelled by booming numbers of UK consumers ordering its wares online and from smartphones over the past six months. Domino’s, which operates the British, Irish, Swiss and German franchises of the global delivery brand, saw its profit jump 10.1 per cent to [...]
Domino’s Pizza hacked with 600,000 customers’ details at risk June 16, 2014 Domino's pizza has had its database hacked with the details of over 600,000 customers now in the hands of a hacker called Rex Mundi, according to Sky News. Mundi is demanding the pizza delivery company hand over €30,000 or else the details, which include customers favourite toppings, will be released later today. Answering why he had [...]
The whole country can celebrate the Aim market’s twentieth anniversary June 18, 2015 Twenty years ago today, on 19 June 1995, London Stock Exchange launched Aim, a new market for ambitious growing businesses. With only 10 companies admitted on the first day of trading, with an aggregate value of just £82m, few might have envisaged it would be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Since its inception, [...]
Riding the rollercoaster: Investing in emerging markets June 18, 2015 It’s been a risky few years but some have still made money. Top fund manager Edward Lam of Somerset Capital Management tells Annabelle Williams the tricks of the trade. From one crisis to the next, emerging markets have been a rollercoaster ride for investors over the last five years. Countries as diverse as Indonesia, [...]
Domino falls on its warning of flat trading June 24, 2014 DOMINO Printing, the seller of printing equipment for retailers, led the FTSE 250 fallers yesterday after warning that pricing pressure in Asia would lead to flat profits in 2015. Shares tumbled 16.7 per cent on the news, making Domino the top percentage loser on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Domino’s results for the six months [...]
Sun’s out buns out: Where to eat al fresco in London – restaurants with outdoor dining April 14, 2015 Angler, South Place Hotel, Moorgate anglerrestaurant.com / 020 3215 1260 This Michelin-starred seafood restaurant in South Place Hotel has a beautiful terrace overlooking the City. It has an a la carte menu offering three courses for £35. Must try: Roasted monkfish tail with braised octopus, aubergine caponata and golden raisins Typical cost for [...]
GDP and consumer confidence rises reflect UK growth – London Report February 22, 2015 GDP growth is this week likely to be confirmed at 0.5 per cent quarter-on-quarter for the final three months of 2014. That growth is likely to be reflected further on Friday with consumer confidence for February at a 12-year high. The corporate week starts today with reports from Associated British Foods, Bovis Homes, HSBC and [...]
Best of the Brokers for 22 January 2015 January 21, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com BHP BILLITON S&P Capital has downgraded Anglo-Australian mining and commodities giant BHP Billiton to “sell” from “hold”. “We view the increase in production volumes and planned operational cost reductions as positive news, but expect lower commodity prices to weigh significantly on group sales,” [...]
Late afternoon commodity rise lifts FTSE index – London Report March 11, 2015 COMMODITY stocks in the FTSE recovered well yesterday afternoon, from falling sharply earlier in the session because of concerns about economic growth in China, to drag the blue-chip index up. The FTSE 100 index closed 0.28 per cent higher at 6,721.51 points after a choppy session, which saw the index rising as high as 6,738.95 [...]
StanChart’s new man lifts FTSE to a record level – London Report February 26, 2015 Britain’s top equity index yesterday hit a record closing high – for the second time this week – helped by a surge in the share price of the Asian-focused bank Standard Chartered. Standard Chartered advanced by 5.4 per cent as traders welcomed its appointment of a new chief executive, former JP Morgan investment bank boss [...]