Travelodge to splash out £165m on new UK hotels July 4, 2011 HOTEL chain Travelodge today announced 22 new hotels, including five in London, as part of a £165m expansion across Britain. The company has also entered a partnership with clothing retailer Arcadia Group. This partnership will see the construction of a 96-room Travelodge hotel above the Topshop store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, with the establishment due [...]
Travelodge to splash out £165m on new UK hotels July 4, 2011 HOTEL chain Travelodge today announced 22 new hotels, including five in London, as part of a £165m expansion across Britain. The company has also entered a partnership with clothing retailer Arcadia Group. This partnership will see the construction of a 96-room Travelodge hotel above the Topshop store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, with the establishment due [...]
END OF AN ERA AS CITY SAYS FAREWELL TO TOP LINKLATERS PARTNER September 22, 2011 IT WAS “hangover central” in the City yesterday, said one mole, thanks to some enthusiastic networking at the City A.M. awards that continued into the early hours of Thursday morning in the basement nightclub in the Grange Hotel at St Paul’s. However, the retirement party for Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne on the same evening [...]
Tax protestors target Topshop November 29, 2010 Topshop owner and government efficiency adviser Sir Philip Green has been named as a target by anti-tax avoidance protesters. Activists linked to UK Uncut have scheduled protests at Topshop branches in Birmingham and Manchester this Saturday, with more expected to follow in the run-up to Christmas, while a group protesting against education cuts and tax [...]
Govt to cut £3bn waste spend after Sir Philip Green review June 3, 2011 The government has said it expected to cut spending on basic goods and services by £3bn per year as it implements the findings of Sir Philip Green’s review. Green, whose Arcadia Group owns the Topshop clothing chain, said last year the government was wasting large sums by failing to exploit its size and credit rating [...]
MOSS DEBUTS FINAL TOPSHOP COLLECTION November 1, 2010 Supermodel Kate Moss celebrated the launch of her final seasonal collection for British retail chain Topshop (owned by Philip Green, left) last night with a party at its flagship London store at Oxford Circus. The final collection includes “Biba-esque” floral printed day dresses, shift dresses with cross stitch panels, a pair of midnight blue velvet [...]
Mary Queen of Shops in high street review May 16, 2011 RETAIL guru Mary Portas is launching a rescue campaign to save Britain’s struggling high streets, after being called in by Prime Minister David Cameron. TV’s “Queen of Shops” wants giant supermarket chains like Tesco to hand over some of their profit to help independent shops. The management consultant has been identified as someone with the [...]
Topshop boss finds waste in Whitehall October 11, 2010 THE government is wasting staggering sums of money by failing to take advantage of its size and credit rating to get the best deals from suppliers, Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green said yesterday. Prime Minister David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said it “made for pretty chilling reading”, while ministers said the report showed that [...]
Protests about tax payments have no effect April 5, 2011 SOMETIMES no change at all can be as interesting as dramatic movements and that is certainly the case when we look at brands that have been targeted by UK Uncut over the past five months. The protest movement has attempted to shame brands that it claims have dodged UK taxes. A series of actions began [...]
RAINMAKING WON’T STOP PLAY AT CITY’S CHELSEA POWER SHOW May 22, 2011 TONIGHT the worlds of high finance and horticulture will collide at the most popular fixture in the City year: the Chelsea Flower Show charity gala. BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch was spotted eyeing up garden sheds at last year’s Chelsea preview, while Topshop boss Sir Philip Green – known in the City as “PG” – [...]