HUMAN LIE DETECTOR BOOSTED BY CITY COMPANIES ON THE WARPATH December 20, 2009 WE ALL know businesses are rather jumpier than usual given the difficult ride they’ve had over the course of the recession, but I hear some are taking truly unprecedented steps to counter risky office behaviour. Darren Stanton, who calls himself a “human lie detector”, tells me he has seen a surge in requests from corporates [...]
CHARLES DUNSTONE GETS HITCHED IN GLITZY STAR-STUDDED STYLE October 11, 2009 THE BELLS rang out at the weekend for the business wedding of the year, the nuptials of Carphone Warehouse tycoon Charles Dunstone and PR executive Celia Gordon Shute. After the service at Christ Church in Spitalfields, the throng of moneyed guests hopped into black cabs to travel to everybody’s favourite bit of a wedding, the [...]
Mercedes Vito to drive black cab out of London September 29, 2009 IT could soon be lights out for London’s black cab, as the newly licensed Mercedes Vito, which is greener, and fits six passengers rather than the normal five, attempts to take 25 per cent of the new London taxi market. The Mercedes, which costs £35,000, could outsell the traditional Manganese Bronze TX4 in a year, [...]
Mercedes Vito to drive black cab out of London September 29, 2009 IT could soon be lights out for London’s black cab, as the newly licensed Mercedes Vito, which is greener, and fits six passengers rather than the normal five, attempts to take 25 per cent of the new London taxi market. The Mercedes, which costs £35,000, could outsell the traditional Manganese Bronze TX4 in a year, [...]
TAXI SALES STALL July 29, 2009 LONDON black cab maker Manganese Bronze slumped into the red over the first half of the year as taxi sales slid despite a boost from the government’s car scrappage scheme. The group reported a pre-tax loss of £600,000 against a profit of £1.5m last year, while vehicle sales fell 11 per cent. Chief executive John [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 6, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES SUN VALLEY SET TO CONSIDER PAID CONTENTA debate over paid content that has riven the newspaper business and spread across the rest of the media sector is expected to frame discussions at the annual confab of media and technology power brokers and entrepreneurs in Sun Valley this week. The US recession has forced [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 5, 2009 THE SUNDAYSThe Sunday TelegraphPRU ENSURES CHANGES TO CAZENOVE RESEARCHJP Morgan Cazenove has rewritten a piece of research about Prudential that initially made a string of adverse comments about the insurer’s accounting procedures. The research note is understood to have made disparaging remarks about reporting decisions taken by Tidjane Thiam, set to take over as chief [...]
Tanfield gets green car funding June 24, 2009 Electric carmaker Tanfield said yesterday it will develop and trial 16 new green vehicles after being deemed eligible for half the funding total allocated by the government to the Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator Programme. Tanfield will receive half of the projected total project cost of £3.2m. It will develop five people carriers and one [...]
TAXI CASH CALL HAILED June 9, 2009 SHARES in Manganese Bronze jumped 16.9 percent yesterday, after the makers of London’s black cabs announced a placing of new shares to raise £9.4m. It will place 5.35m shares at 187p per share. Tough trading conditions in its core UK market meant it needed to secure extra funding, Bronze said. The company sells cars in [...]
TAXI CASH CALL HAILED June 9, 2009 SHARES in Manganese Bronze jumped 16.9 percent yesterday, after the makers of London’s black cabs announced a placing of new shares to raise £9.4m. It will place 5.35m shares at 187p per share. Tough trading conditions in its core UK market meant it needed to secure extra funding, Bronze said. The company sells cars in [...]