Patisserie Valerie, the coffee and cake shop chain has appointed an ex Starbucks executive to a key commercial role as its tries to forget harsh memories from the accounting scandal that nearly brought the company to collapse. Rhys Iley, former retail and operations vice-president at Starbucks in Europe, will become group commercial director of Patisserie…
Huawei, the world’s largest supplier of Telecoms equipment whose SG Technology is international standards, hit back at western worries that its telecoms equipment poses a security threat, attacking the US and its allies for spreading fear and rumours because of “ideological or geopolitical concerns”. Ken Hu, CEO of Huawei said countries that banned the Chinese…
Swimwear designer Sian Gabbidon (26) from Leeds has been chosen as the winner of The Apprentice 2018 by Lord Suga. She beat 22-year-old nut milk entrepreneur Camilla Ainsworth to win a £250, 000 investment from Lords Sugar in her swimwear firm. Lord Sugar who made his first investment in a fashion business in the show’s…
Charlotte Tilbury the Retoucher Conceal and Treat Stick inspired by the “magic retoucher pen of the professional photographer, a breakthrough concealer that makes imperfections disappear with the click of a button. Retoucher contains a radical Lipo-siliconic compound and special elastomer pearls, it creates a natural healing veil of colour that blends with your natural skin…
American author Maria Dahvana Headley known her young adult and fantasy works wrties her novel The Mere Wife, takes on the Old English epic spins a rich web of associations, echoes and re-configurations. Beowulf is a story in three battles – first Beowulf slays the monster Grendel, who has been plaguing the Danes of Heorot.…
Julian Baggini explores philosophical traditions worldwide, and understand western traditions, methodologies. According to Baggini, if it is western philosophical inquiry, which is predominantly “Truth seeking” and Eastern philosophies “ way seeking”. Hindu Philosophy is based on observation and invokes six sources of knowledge, including testimony based on reliable witnesses, and also anupalabdhi ( non-perception: seeing…
In 1990s Jeff Bezos started Amazon in converted garage of his house in Seattle, with first desk build out of cheap doors he bought from Home Depot. Twenty years later Heike Geissler’s book, Seasonal Associate, goes to a selection day for a Christmas temp job at an Amazon warehouse in Leipzig, eastern Germany and notices…
LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury group, forked out £2.53bn ( $3.2bn) on the London-based owner of the Hotel Cipriani in Venice and Orient Express trains, by buying Belmond, which operates in 24 countries and its hotels include Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro and Hotel Splendido in Portofino, Italy. . LVMH already has Cheval…
Actress Sondra Locke, famous for making six movies with Clint Eastwood, has died at the age of 74. She earned an Oscar nomination for her first film, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1968. Locke however, became romantically involved with Eastwood whilst making The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1975, but later went on…