WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 12, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES UNICREDIT CHIEF SIGNALS RIGHTS ISSUE TO INCREASE CAPITAL LEVELS UniCredit has given its clearest signal yet that it will seek to raise its capital buffers as market turmoil continues to hit European bank shares. In his first big interview since becoming chief a year ago Federico Ghizzoni told the Financial Times that details [...]
Keeping the flag flying for boozers July 18, 2011 The Surprise 6 Christchurch Terrace, W3 4AJ Tel: 020 7351 6954 www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/thesurprise FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £23 THE Surprise (named after a warship) is a pub in Chelsea and the latest project from Geronimo Inns, the company with a slew of beautiful gastropubs across London. So good is Geronimo at turning [...]
Keeping the flag flying for boozers July 18, 2011 The Surprise 6 Christchurch Terrace, W3 4AJ Tel: 020 7351 6954 www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/thesurprise FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £23 THE Surprise (named after a warship) is a pub in Chelsea and the latest project from Geronimo Inns, the company with a slew of beautiful gastropubs across London. So good is Geronimo at turning [...]
Businesses need to plan for the Olympics if they want the summer to run smoothly October 16, 2011 London 2012 TIME TO GET READY THERE’S no general piece of advice.” I’m with Transport for London’s no-nonsense commissioner, Peter Hendy, and if he has one message he wants people to grasp about public transport during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is that every day and every part of town will be different. [...]
LONG ISLAND COMES TO THE CITY IN CLUB FOR DISCERNING DINERS September 1, 2011 GERALD RONSON and his business partner Enzo Quaradeghini spent 12 years building up their joint restaurant and bar interests in Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid, including the Irish pub O’Sullivans and a 3,500-capacity club called Guru. But now the Heron International boss and the restaurateur have sold off their Spanish assets, Quaradeghini is free to devote [...]
GOVERMENT GIVES ARK FUNDRAISER £1M BOOST June 7, 2011 TOMORROW night’s Ark hedge fund gala has moved to the centre of the political agenda, after the government agreed to match private donations to the tune of £1m for the charity’s vaccination programme in Zambia. Led by development secretary Andrew Mitchell, the pledge is part of the government’s commitment to increasing British taxpayer contributions to [...]
Greene King buys Realpubs as the fine weather brings in more customers April 27, 2011 PUBS and brewery group Greene King reported accelerating sales growth and said it had benefited from good weather attracting drinkers into its pubs over the last few weeks. The group, which brews Greene King IPA and Old Speckled Hen beer, also said it had purchased Realpubs, which operates 14 London pubs, for £53.1m. That takes [...]
Software provider Escher Group plans to raise £13.4m in AIM float August 3, 2011 ESCHER Group, a Dublin-based provider of outsourcing software to the postal industry, is planning to raise £13.4m by floating on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), in a listing that would value the company at £28.7m. The company, which has grown pretax profits from $700,000 in 2008 to $4.3m in 2010, is raising the money via [...]
Software provider Escher Group plans to raise £13.4m in AIM float August 3, 2011 ESCHER Group, a Dublin-based provider of outsourcing software to the postal industry, is planning to raise £13.4m by floating on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), in a listing that would value the company at £28.7m. The company, which has grown pretax profits from $700,000 in 2008 to $4.3m in 2010, is raising the money via [...]
JD Wetherspoon sales up May 4, 2011 JD Wetherspoon yesterday reported rising third-quarter sales and said an encouraging performance from its recently opened pubs should help it achieve a reasonable full-year outcome. The pub group said like-for-like sales for the 13 weeks to 24 April were 2.4 per cent higher. The company said in a statement: “Sales and cashflow continue to be [...]