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…
Fugitive billionaire and owner of the Force India Formula One team and owner of now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, whose extradition has been ordered by a UK court, which described him as “glamorous, flashy, famous, bejewelled, bodyguarded, ostensibly billionaire playboy who charmed and cajoled these bankers into losing their common sense.” The court stated “ there…
Malaysia’s 37-year-old Jho Low accused of stealing £3.6 billion from government gifted expensive jewellery and a grand see-through piano worth $1m to 35-year-old Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr sitting in her Malibu home and also purchased a custom-made yacht called Equanimity outfitted with a helipad and movie theatre worth £200million, £25 million penthouse in New York…
Doug McMillon kept a photo on his phone that list the top 10 retailers in the U.S. over the past few decades. This is how Walmart held the No. 1 spot since the 1990s when it took over Sears. McMillon says the retailer maintains a “healthy paranoia” to stay ahead of rivals, in the race…
The world is changing dramatically and with the advent of Brexit and Trump, the isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to event along the Silk Roads, which new ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of these constant shifts in the centre of…
Interserve one of the biggest outsourcing companies serving the government is in rescue talks that could see Carillion-style collapse if it fails. Interserve plc is multinational support services and construction company based in UK was founded in 1884 as the London and Tilbury Lighterage Company Limited and retained the Tilbury name until 2001 when it…
Several budding and professional photographers are vying to win the Sony World Photography Awards 2019, as the deadline for submissions are drawing closer ( January 4, 2019) and competition organisers have revealed some of the most eye-catching snaps entered till now. There are ten categories in the competition including architecture, landscape, portraiture, wildlife and travel.…
Electric scooters are given 72 hours to take them off the streets of Madrid amid claims they are a public nuisance and just days after a 90-year-old woman pedestrian walking with a Zimmerframe in a zone reserved for pedestrians, was run-over and killed in a collision The council told the three main e-scooter companies operating…
Lihou Island surrounded by the Atlantic ocean, about 500m off the west coast of Guernsey, owned by the States of Guernsey, is seeking a janitor to maintain and run the island’s only house and natural swimming pool and the nature reserve’s wildlife. They are offering the successful candidate a tractor for a company car and…