Gaucho’s merger with M Restaurant brings boss Martin Williams ‘full circle’ April 4, 2019 The founder of M Restaurants said today he has come “full circle” by merging his chain with steakhouse Gaucho, which he led for years before founding M. Martin Williams, who is taking over as chief executive of the new parent company, always hoped to merge the two after helping to take Gaucho out of administration with Investec [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Positive that Cox’s horse can land Solario Stakes August 29, 2019 WITH the weather set fair, Sandown is the place to be this weekend with its Summer Celebration taking place today and tomorrow. This afternoon is family day and then tomorrow continues with more of a festival vibe and a DJ after racing. Tomorrow’s highlight is the Group Three Betway Solario Stakes (3.45pm), which was won [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Eeh Bah Gum and Muthmir set to Dash to success May 31, 2019 FASTEN your seatbelts and get ready for the Investec Dash, one of the fastest races you will ever see. Epsom’s downhill five furlong track is like no other in the world and back in 2012 Stone Of Folca set a new world record when winning this race in 53.69 seconds, the quickest since electronic timing [...]
Stelios urges investors to reject Icamap’s £139m Easyhotel bid August 5, 2019 Easyhotel founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has called on shareholders to reject a £139m bid for the business, saying it fails to recognise the company’s “true value”. Real estate fund Icamap made the 95p per share bid for the hotel chain this morning alongside developer Ivanhoe Cambridge. Read more: Satellite giant Inmarsat ditches dividend ahead of [...]
RBS nets £150m in sale of Lombard asset finance unit to Investec and Shawbrook January 3, 2018 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has sold the offshore operations of its asset finance lender Lombard to Investec and Shawbrook. RBS will net around £150m from selling off its Channel Islands operations of the lender, which was founded in 1861. Investec and Shawbrook will split the Jersey and Guernsey assets division between them, although the [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bye Bye Hong Kong, Hello Epsom Downs May 31, 2019 ANDREW Balding and Silvestre de Sousa have some very big fish to fry for King Power Racing this weekend, notably Bangkok in the Derby, but I expect them to be celebrating after BYE BYE HONG KONG wins the Investec Diomed Stakes. The Kingsclere-based handler has won this prize a joint record three times with Tullius, [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Ocean’s odds of turning the tide on Enable are tempting July 25, 2019 EVEN though the scorching temperatures of the last few days are set to give way to rain tomorrow, it may not be enough to cool the hottest jockey on the planet at the moment. Frankie Dettori’s victory aboard Star Catcher in last weekend’s Irish Oaks was his eighth Group One winner in less than two [...]
Musical shares: Why Merck Mercuriadis believes the old ones are always the best October 14, 2019 Merck Mercuriadis has a party trick. If you tell the veteran music mogul-turned City slicker your favourite band, he’ll name an older band that influenced them. Like a Spotify algorithm, but in real life. Mercuriadis’s encyclopedic music knowledge is hardly surprising. Over his career he has managed artists including Morrissey, Beyonce and Elton John, and [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Maqsad can serve it up to Hermosa in Nassau Stakes July 31, 2019 THERE isn’t a race I have been looking forward to more all week than this afternoon’s Qatar Nassau Stakes (3.35pm). When the entries first came out my eyes were immediately drawn to dual 1000 Guineas winner HERMOSA who finally steps up to the trip she has seemingly been crying out for. The daughter of Galileo [...]
Investec has warned exposure to Poundland owner Steinhoff could hit profits December 11, 2017 Investec has warned its exposure to troubled South African retail giant Steinhoff could knock as much as three per cent off its profit. In a statement aimed at quelling fears from investors, the lender said its exposure to scandal-hit Steinhoff, whose shares collapsed last week after its chief executive resigned, represents a “small portion” of [...]