Letter to the editor: How brownfield sites can help us solve the housing crisis April 2, 2024 Pushing London further out into the country with another onion ring of low-density greenfield housing is not the solution to the housing crisis.
Hybrid jobs: 248 football pitches of office space has simply vanished November 26, 2022 New research out this morning shows that roughly 1.8m square metres of office floorspace was taken out of use in the UK in the past year. The move, equivalent to 248 football pitches, was largely due to changes in working patterns since the pandemic – with the shift to hybrid working, said law firm Boodle [...]
London’s most respected ad guru on why data giants Publicis and WPP have it wrong May 13, 2024 The former chief of operations at Publicis says brands that still launch with a TV ad and a poster blows his mind.
STM Group suffers fall of profits and earnings on eve of acquisition by pensions rival June 27, 2024 Retirement and estate planning firm that owns Options Pensions' suffered a fall in profits, reported earnings per share and reported operating margins in 2023, on the eve of its acquisition from a rival firm completes.
Police ‘not able to progress’ with 11 out of 12 CBI misconduct claims February 6, 2024 The City of London Police has said it is “not able to progress further criminally” with 11 out of 12 allegations of serious misconduct made against the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
Why a new Edinburgh fund is putting £100m into firms outside of London October 16, 2023 A new venture fund backed by the state-owned British Business Bank has launched in Scotland today with the aim of rebalancing start-up investment away from London towards the north of the UK.
City of London top financial centre in the world? Not without a listings revival January 24, 2024 The City of London, number one financial centre in the world. One can imagine that a Square Mile which has spent the past year worrying about US take-private raids, an almost total collapse in significant IPOs, and an ever-increasing tax burden would take that badge of honour with a pinch of salt. But that is [...]
Facebook UK secured £1bn revenue boost last year October 15, 2023 Facebook, a subsidiary of social media giant Meta, received a £1 billion leap in revenues last year
GSK to pay Curevac £1.2bn for full rights to develop and commercialise mRNA vaccines July 3, 2024 GSK will assume full control of developing and manufacturing the candidate vaccines and will have worldwide rights to commercialise them.
Square Mile’s largest employers embrace hybrid working, the details May 8, 2021 The majority of the largest employers in the City of London have vowed to continue with some sort of hybrid approach to working, after pandemic-led restrictions forced the biggest home working experiment in history. With Covid-19 cases falling and millions of people successfully vaccinated, staff are trickling back into London’s offices, and companies are turning [...]