GOING OUT January 26, 2012 The festive season witnessed the birth of a plethora of new bars and clubs in the capital, notable amongst them was The Rose on 23 Orchard Street in Marylebone, brought to you by clubland mainstays Nick House and Piers Adam (Whisky Mist, Punchbowl, Mahiki). Their newest project houses a 300 capacity, chic speakeasy-style nightclub with [...]
Jobs fear cuts short protest January 22, 2012 THE protesters entered quickly and quietly in trademark style. They left with similar speed, however, when they realised their takeover of a City office block – owned by Berkeley Homes – risked adding to the ranks of the poor, rather than helping them. The takeover of Roman House in the Barbican was the shortest of the [...]
GOING OUT November 2, 2011 The Hawksmoor empire has opened their third and beefiest establishment in Guildhall and its separate 50-seater bar helps reinforce the group’s penchant for cocktails as well as steak. Pall Mall just got a bit posher with the addition of The Balcon and its new St James’s Bar. Drawing inspiration from Coco Chanel’s 1920s Paris apartment [...]
THE TIPSTER October 30, 2011 TRICK or treat? Marstons – brewer of Hobgoblin beer and pub owner – has like the rest of the market, enjoyed a frightfully good October, with shares rallying close on 20 per cent. Although the market is becoming increasingly dominated by a handful of giants, earnings are expected to be in line with expectations when [...]
THE TIPSTER October 30, 2011 TRICK or treat? Marstons – brewer of Hobgoblin beer and pub owner – has like the rest of the market, enjoyed a frightfully good October, with shares rallying close on 20 per cent. Although the market is becoming increasingly dominated by a handful of giants, earnings are expected to be in line with expectations when [...]
Crown Estate picks first woman chief executive October 25, 2011 THE MONARCHY’S £7bn portfolio of land and property has hired Alison Nimmo as its new chief executive. The Crown Estate, known for owning most of Regent Street, several London housing estates and 144,000 hectares of agricultural land and forests, has never had a woman as chief exec or chairman since it was established in its [...]
MINERS DIG DEEP TO AID OLIVIA’S RECOVERY October 9, 2011 IT’S NOT often you see people spending £3,700 on “thin air”. But last Thursday night, the Berkeley Square silver merchant Jim Williams raised his hand to bid on nothing at all to take the Olivia’s Vision auction to the “nice round number” of £80,000. The Arian Silver Corporation’s “huge mining character” was bidding at the [...]
PUBS WAR CAN WAIT AS JOE LEWIS EXPECTS NEW GREAT-GRANDCHILD September 14, 2011 ALL EYES remain on financier Joe Lewis, whose surprise appearance in London on his superyacht Aviva ten days ago has been satisfactorily explained by this week’s hostile move to take control of pub chain Mitchells & Butlers. Case closed. Or is it? As ever with the enigmatic Bahamas-based billionaire, the truth is rather more surprising [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 11, 2011 Merchant Securities The financial services group has appointed Dr Navid Malik as head of life sciences equity research. Malik joins from the investment banking arm of Matrix Group, where he was partner and head of life sciences research. Prior to that, he was a senior equity analyst for Collins Stewart and Williams de Broë, covering [...]
Redrow profit tops forecasts September 8, 2011 Housebuilder Redrow has posted full-year pre-tax profit ahead of expectations, thanks to a ten per cent rise in selling prices, but warned the outlook for the property market is challenging. Redrow, one of the smaller listed volume housebuilders, made £25.3m pre-tax profit in the year to the end of June, compared with £0.7m in 2010 [...]