…as it expands eastwards into Canary Wharf to fit in new staff November 20, 2013 ACCOUNTANCY group EY is taking 200,000 square feet of office space in Canary Wharf, becoming the latest City firm to move staff to the Docklands. EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, confirmed yesterday that it will keep its offices at More London near Tower Bridge, where it has been based for almost a decade. [...]
It’s about time for a spring clean April 16, 2014 Your watch is probably long overdue a service – and what better time of the year to do so? Allow the watchmakers at Wempe to explain VENTURE down the stairs at Breitling or Vacheron Constantin’s shiny new boutiques on Bond Street, or simply browse the windows of David M Robinson in Canary Wharf’s subterranean Jubilee [...]
Just-Eat dials up bid to debut on growth market February 23, 2014 FAST food site Just-Eat is sharpening plans to list on the new high-growth segment (HGS) of London’s main stock market, making it the first company to join the fledgling platform if it pulls the trigger on the plans. The company’s backers are understood to be examining a proposal to offload just 10 per cent of [...]
Singapore firm to develop new London village November 4, 2013 SINGAPORE-based property group Oxley Holdings has snapped up Royal Wharf, the largest mixed-use site sold in London since Battersea power station. Oxley now intends to build 4,000 residential properties on the 40-acre space, along with a number of attached facilities. The development is less than three miles east of Canary Wharf, one of London’s finance [...]
Walkie-Talkie tower bags fifth tenant February 25, 2013 CANARY WHARF Group and Land Securities’ Walkie-Talkie skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street is now 53 per cent let after the developers confirmed yesterday that US insurer Liberty Mutual is to take up 117,336 square feet of office space. Markel, Kiln, RSA and Ascott Underwriting have also pre-let space in the 160-metre tall building.
The final Canary Wharf tower tops out February 6, 2013 CANARY Wharf Group will today put into place the final piece of steel at 25/30 Churchill Place, the last building in the original Canary Wharf 1988 masterplan to be completed. The 525,000 square feet property has been half pre-let to the European Medicines Agency for 25 years at £46.50 per sq ft. The rest of [...]
Osborne warns the deficit remains a major threat October 22, 2013 THE UK’S budget deficit shrank again in September, official figures showed yesterday, but the chancellor warned it will take a sustained policy drive to remove the underlying problems in the government’s finances. In September the deficit came in at £11.1bn, or £1bn smaller than the same month a year earlier. Tax receipts increased seven per [...]
Aberdeen set to win £500m bid battle for Swip November 18, 2013 ABERDEEN Asset Management is poised to sign a £500m deal to buy Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) after beating a rival bidder to land the company. The all share deal – which would give Lloyds just under a 10 per cent stake in Aberdeen – is set to be unveiled this morning after the other [...]
Getting to the heart of online dating February 2, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks matchmaking with Lovestruck founders Brett Harding and Laurence Holloway ONLINE dating has come a long way since kiss.com and match.com – widely believed to be the first major dating websites – were registered in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Today, it is one of the most popular ways to meet a new partner, [...]
Innovation Diary: Tech City turns three: Cluster changes shape while the quango seeks scale December 8, 2013 TECH City has just turned three. There is some confusion over what this actually means, however. Tech firms have been located around Old Street roundabout since at least the 1990s, so it’s really just the anniversary of the government quango dedicated to stimulating them. Yet despite criticism (Sir James Dyson has attacked an obsession with [...]