The UK’s largest housebuilder, Barratt Developments makes record pre-tax profit of £835.5m in the year to June 2018 up 9.2 per cent from a year earlier and built 17, 579 homes in 2017-2018, the highest in the past decade. Their revenue rose 4.8 per cent to £4.9bn. More than 40 per cent of the…
Nineteen people have been taken ill after Emirates airline plane flight EK203 from Dubai to New York landed in New York JFK airport 9:10 (13:10 GMT) with 521 passengers. The plane was immediately quarantined at JFK airport. Three passengers including rapper Vanilla Ice and seven crew members who fell ill on board Emirates flight were…
WPP which owns companies like Ogilvy& Mather, J Walker Thompson and Group M, had a steep share price fall, by more than 6 per cent in the wake of threat from new competitor like Accenture and the rise of Google and Facebook in advertising. At the start of the year WPP had forecast flat margin…
The Financial Conduct Authority who brought criminal prosecution, its second largest in terms of volume of evidence seized, after successfully investigating five different boiler room groups, one of which claimed to be “ one of the UK’s largest wealth advisory firms”, a scam that resulted in £2.8m losses, got five people jailed for 18 years…
Apple cider vinegar (a.k.a. A.C.V) is my new health obsession. I recently began taking apple cider vinegar shots a few times a day for a quick and effective energy burst. However, I’ve since discovered so many other useful and healthy ways to incorporate it into my daily routine. Natural weight loss supplement – Pure Apple Cider Vinegar is a…
David and Goliath, Uber and Lyft left fuming as Skip get the contract. Sanjay Dastoor, CEO of Skip, a little known scooter start-up that beat the likes of Uber and Bird to a lucrative city contract in San Francisco, said “ I have been looking for an answer that is going to be a high-quality,…
Coca-Cola is to buy Costa coffee from its UK owner Whitbread for £3.9billion ( $5.1bn. Whitbread shares leapt forward 18 per cent after it unveiled a deal to sell its Costa Coffee chain to Coca-Cola including debt. The sale marks the end of Whitbread’s 23-year ownership of Costa, which the Group bought for £19million when…
U ber has shortlisted five countries including Australia, France, India, Brazil and Japan that could be home to the first international Uber Air City within the next five years. Uber Elevate, the ride-hailing platform’s aerial taxi arm announced the shortlisted countries at the first “Uber Elevate Asia Pacific Expo” in Tokyo. Uber will choose one…
Italian men’s luxury group Ermenegildo Zenga has agreed to buy 85 per cent of US luxury lable Thom Browne from Sandbridge Capital for $500m. The Milan based family owned company by acquiring Thom Browne, a $1.2bn business built on traditional menswear, brings men’s suite for younger generation. Gildo Zenga, CEO of Ermenegildo Zenga said Thom…
Rachel Whetstone is dumping Facebook for Netflix to run global communications for the streaming service, as it focuses on international markets that have become the source of most of its subscribers growth. The British Silicon Valley operator who had already worked in past at Uber and Google before moving to Facebook last year. Netflix is…