Carlsberg ups target as key markets rise August 17, 2010 CARLSBERG yesterday lifted its target for profits growth after reporting a 30 per cent rise in second-quarter profits and winning a bigger proportion of some of its main markets. The group said it expected net profits to surge an estimated 40 per cent this year – double the 20 per cent previously forecast. Carlsberg, which [...]
FOCUS ON: CAMDEN September 9, 2010 BAYHAM STREET, NW1 Price: £925,000 This four-bed house is located between Camden Town and Mornington Crescent. It has been renovated to provide a home with master suite, an open-plan kitchen and a reception on the first floor. The house has a landscaped garden with a terrace and a balcony. Contact: Chesterton Humberts on 020 7267 [...]
FOCUS ON: CAMDEN September 9, 2010 BAYHAM STREET, NW1 Price: £925,000 This four-bed house is located between Camden Town and Mornington Crescent. It has been renovated to provide a home with master suite, an open-plan kitchen and a reception on the first floor. The house has a landscaped garden with a terrace and a balcony. Contact: Chesterton Humberts on 020 7267 [...]
THE TIPSTER September 1, 2010 TECH stocks struggled towards the end of last month. China’s weaker growth, including the announcement that it will be drastically reducing its output of rare earth metals, suggests that the future could be fairly bumpy for the sector. Apple’s share price rose immediately following yesterday’s launch event, but with consumer confidence still weak and its [...]
Four of the best resorts for a wild and wicked break January 3, 2011 BEST FOR CRAZY PEOPLE REVELSTOKE, CANADA WANT to go somewhere genuinely new and yet nonetheless outrageously awesome? Try Revelstoke. Deep in the Canadian Selkirks, this remarkable resort only opened in Winter 2007. It is still, partially, a work in progress, but when it’s complete, it will be North America’s largest ski area, with a colossal [...]
Fast & furious September 28, 2010 IT’S ALWAYS a little strange when you get the impression you’re driving a Ferrari when you’re really hitting 40mph in a small hatchback. Powering along the north Kent coast in the Fabia vRS, towards a particularly excellent gastro pub, the car shrieked and howled so loudly you’d think there was a V12 under the bonnet. [...]
FOCUS ON: GREENWICH, SE10 July 22, 2010 ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY Price: From £165,000 A luxury flat in an 18th century military school is not the typical home of a first-time buyer. But a regeneration project has turned the academy into a luxury development with studios, one-beds and two-beds on offer. Contact: Hamptons on 020 8856 0034, www.theacademy-woolwich.com FINGAL STREET Price: £435,000 A [...]
FOCUS ON: GREENWICH, SE10 July 22, 2010 ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY Price: From £165,000 A luxury flat in an 18th century military school is not the typical home of a first-time buyer. But a regeneration project has turned the academy into a luxury development with studios, one-beds and two-beds on offer. Contact: Hamptons on 020 8856 0034, www.theacademy-woolwich.com FINGAL STREET Price: £435,000 A [...]
THE CAPITALIST October 11, 2010 ONCE more, the hedge fund community unites for a good cause – this time not by shelling out enormous sums of money while being wined and dined at a charity gala dinner, a la Arki Busson, but by writing a book designed as a warning to policymakers all over the globe. Tonight will see swanky [...]
A Sunday service with edge August 9, 2010 WHAT’S your idea of perfect Sunday relaxation? Climbing into a barber’s chair and getting lathered up probably isn’t first on many lists, but after discovering the grooming service on offer at West London’s smartly idiosyncratic boys’ own shop Carter & Bond, it’s shot to the top of mine. Carter & Bond is like finding the [...]