Boots advantage card helps sales soar as shoppers sign up to bag beauty bargains March 28, 2023 Boots has reported a surge in sales as the high street chemist benefited from savvy shoppers keen to rack up points on its advantage card loyalty scheme. In the three months to 28 February 2023, the retailer’s sales increased 16 per cent as customers shrugged off the cost-of-living crisis to splash out on skincare and [...]
Homes sit on the market for longer as prices hit yet another record high, says Zoopla May 30, 2022 The time between listing a property and a sale is growing increasingly longer, according to property platform Zoopla, as house prices hit yet another record high. In London, the average time it takes for a three-bed house to be whisked off the market has jumped from 17 days in March to 21 days in April. [...]
House sales set to tumble this year on recession jitters, experts warn January 24, 2023 House sales are set to tumble due to owners waiting until the recession passes to cash in on their homes, estate agents have predicted today. Homeowners are expected to adopt a wait and see approach during the first six months of 2023 for fear they will have to sell their property at a lower-than-demanded price. [...]
Wine sellers bottle it as middle-class customers scale back amid cost of living crisis October 25, 2023 Virgin Wines' chief executive officer, Jay Wright, is "confident" in the group's longer-term prospects — despite a 10 per cent drop in share price.
City darling Hg Capital pockets £1.6bn as LSE-listed fund sells cloud business to German rival December 13, 2022 City investor Hg confirmed to City A.M. this morning the sale of Transporeon, a cloud-based transportation management software platform, to rival Trimble in a transaction valuing the business at around €1.88bn, or £1.62bn. Transporeon provides cloud-based logistics and transport management platform, enabling automation, real-time insights and collaboration on €48bn of annual freight. The sale marks the [...]
Bidders recoil at Butlin’s hefty price tag as Blackstone explore a sale February 13, 2022 Potential bidders for the Butlin’s chain of holiday camps have reportedly balked at a hefty £700m price tag floated by its owner Blackstone, as the private equity giant looks to spin off the chain.
Diriyah: The city where history meets modernity July 3, 2024 Take one UNESCO World Heritage site. Give it the gift of a 21st-century neighbour. Mirror local culture in everything that is new. Create an environment in which the pedestrian is king, with cars banished to an intricate underground road network. Invite the world to visit, admire, enjoy and invest.Add all that together and you have Diriyah.
Horse power! Classic Ferrari F355 makes a comeback July 11, 2024 Evoluto Automobili has reimagined the legendary Ferrari F355, with an updated Callum Designs exterior and a reworked V8 engine.
Nationwide profits resilient despite coronavirus hit November 20, 2020 Building society Nationwide reported a resilient performance in the first half year with profits stable, despite a £139m impairment charge. The lender reported a 17 per cent rise in pretax profit from £309m to £361m, despite a £139m provision for loans that may not be repaid due to the pandemic. Net lending for the six [...]
Focus On Harrow: Why this west London suburb is popular with families and first time buyers September 28, 2018 With inner city London gradually dividing itself into a series of ‘villages’, mimicking the community, farmers markets and independent high streets of semi-rural life, what’s the point of suburbs anymore? Places like Harrow have traditionally been quite pedestrian places, attracting families to its healthy stock of semi-detached houses and good quality schools. The ultimate – [...]