Celebrating a 40th? Stage a large scale princess rescue of course April 30, 2014 ANYONE walking through Camden, on any given day, should expect to see weird and wonderful things but people strolling along its canal yesterday morning would have got an eye-full – of toys. Giant ones. Staging a princess rescue. Natch. The Playmobil crew was in town celebrating the toy’s 40th anniversary and, like anyone would, rented [...]
Restaurateur Des McDonald discusses the burger revolution, forests and what it means to have cooking in your blood December 7, 2014 Sitting in your own month-old restaurant would be extremely exciting for most people. It is for Des McDonald too, except this is one of six – and they’ve all opened within the last two years. His second branch of The Fish & Chip Shop is the latest, and it’s bringing the City what McDonald describes [...]
Battle of The City bands at Finance Rocks June 12, 2014 The City descended on legendary music den The 100 Club last night for the second annual Finance Rocks fundraising gig. Four lively bands from the likes of BNY Mellon, Excelian Consulting and Bloomberg all battled it out in front of a panel of judges and a packed audience, but it was Credit Agricole's Trigger Fish [...]
UK house prices in graphs: For one London square metre you could buy a new car July 11, 2014 Buying a square metre of Kensington and Chelsea property now costs roughly the same as a new entry-level Ford Fiesta. With one square metre costing £10,854, the area is the most expensive local authority in the country to live in. According to data from Halifax, average house prices in this and six other London boroughs [...]
Chilango launches burrito bonds to fund expansion with free food June 10, 2014 A MEXICAN food chain has come up with a more appetising way of raising funds for expansion after launching a retail bond that rewards its investors with burritos. Chilango, which was founded in 2007 by ex-Skype executives Eric Partaker and Dan Houghton, launched the new “burrito bond” yesterday on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to raise between [...]
Radley plots ambitious growth plans after strong sales figures May 11, 2014 RADLEY, the purveyor of handbags stamped with its famous Scottish Terrier logo, is set to follow in the footsteps of other British fashion brands by pushing into Asia to tap the region’s burgeoning middle class consumers. The private equity backed company, which started life on a market stall in Camden, is eyeing ambitious growth plans [...]
Three-year delay hits Google’s London HQ May 14, 2014 WORK ON Google’s planned £650m headquarters at King’s Cross could be delayed for another three years, the boss of the contractor appointed to build the scheme warned yesterday. In its annual report released yesterday, BAM Construct chief executive Graham Cash said it was “disappointing” that the building has been pushed back to “at least 2017” [...]
Three-year delay hits Google’s London HQ May 13, 2014 WORK ON Google’s planned £650m headquarters at King’s Cross could be delayed for another three years, the boss of the contractor appointed to build the scheme warned yesterday. In its annual report released yesterday, BAM Construct chief executive Graham Cash said it was “disappointing” that the building has been pushed back to “at least 2017” [...]
Three things you didn’t know about… April 7, 2014 The founder and chief executive of Peregrine Communications Anthony Payne 1 Anthony was born and grew up in Nairobi before moving to Chicago in mid-winter aged 13. The snow was a bit of a shock, as was going from having no TV to over 55 channels. 2 He has held a pilot licence since he [...]
Bottom Line: Swann’s SSP could prosper in City’s search for quality June 16, 2014 THERE was a telling comment last week during a session held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain examining initial public offerings. “We’re going to go through a rather different period now,” EY’s Richard Hall, a veteran of last year’s bumper Royal Mail float, told an audience of private equity investors. “There are still some [...]