Tesco to quit Japan after eight years August 31, 2011 TESCO yesterday announced that it would quit Japan after a bruising eight years in which it failed to gain a profitable foothold in the market. Japan is known as a difficult market to crack for western companies, especially in the notoriously tough grocery sector. Tesco has 129 stores, mainly in the Tokyo area, having started [...]
Spurs to drop stadium appeal August 23, 2011 TOTTENHAM are expected to abandon their legal battle over the Olympic Stadium and could do so as early as today – clearing the way for West Ham to move in after London 2012. Spurs are instead likely to revert to plans to build a new stadium next to their current home White Hart Lane, contingent [...]
Spurs to drop stadium appeal August 23, 2011 TOTTENHAM are expected to abandon their legal battle over the Olympic Stadium and could do so as early as today – clearing the way for West Ham to move in after London 2012. Spurs are instead likely to revert to plans to build a new stadium next to their current home White Hart Lane, contingent [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 22, 2011 Savills The property firm has strengthened its building and project consultancy team by hiring surveyors Edward Wilson and Tim Cole, who will be based at the Finsbury Circus office in the City of London. Wilson (pictured) joins Savills from Drivers Jonas Deloitte, where he worked in the building consultancy team for over three years. Cole [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 1, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BIG AREAS STILL LACK 3G, SAYS OFCOM Nearly 90 per cent of the UK’s land mass and a quarter of buildings are unable to receive all five 3G phone networks a decade after the introduction of the mobile licences, according to the telecoms regulator. In its first report on the UK’s communications infrastructure, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 1, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BIG AREAS STILL LACK 3G, SAYS OFCOM Nearly 90 per cent of the UK’s land mass and a quarter of buildings are unable to receive all five 3G phone networks a decade after the introduction of the mobile licences, according to the telecoms regulator. In its first report on the UK’s communications infrastructure, [...]
Ten of the top givers in the City December 21, 2011 AS we now know from the tremendous response to this newspaper’s first ever Christmas charity appeal, the City is full of givers. Despite the tougher times many of our readers have experienced, as a group this year they dug in to support a charity that helps people help themselves. This page is a tribute to [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 19, 2011 Britvic Simon Litherland has been appointed as managing director of Britvic Soft Drinks, and a member of the group executive committee, effective from 4 October. Litherland joins from Diageo, where he was MD of the GB business, responsible for brands including Guinness, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker. Litherland started at Diageo as finance director in European [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 19, 2011 Britvic Simon Litherland has been appointed as managing director of Britvic Soft Drinks, and a member of the group executive committee, effective from 4 October. Litherland joins from Diageo, where he was MD of the GB business, responsible for brands including Guinness, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker. Litherland started at Diageo as finance director in European [...]
PWC HOSTS AWARDS TO MARK BEST PRACTICES October 13, 2011 AS anyone who’s attended a City awards ceremony will know, it’s often hard to keep the attention of a room full of businessmen and women who are used to being online 24/7. But ITN news anchor Mary Nightingale had no such trouble on Wednesday night when she hosted the 9th annual PwC Building Public Trust [...]