Rio’s Piri Piri at 112 Lisson Grove London NW1 6UL opened on April 5th this year and is the third branch in London joining Croydon and Wembley. There are eleven more outside the London area. Rio’s Piri Piri branches first opened in 2015. Affiliated with Deliveroo Just Eat and Uber Eat, with a minimum order…
Coca-Cola known for its eponymous Caffeine-based drink, but the firm now appears to be experimenting with a different drug: cannabis. The drink giant is in talks with local producer Aurora Cannabis about developing marijuana-infused beverages. Although these drinks would not intoxicate customers but supposed to relieve pain. “Along with many others in the beverage industry,…
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in advanced talks to invest £1bn in UK’s Babylon Health, a digital health start-up used by the National Health Service. The investment is part of a new funding round for the start-up that will give Babylon “unicorn” status. London-based Babylon founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian entrepreneur…
OYO, a fast-growing Indian hotel chain backed by Softbank, is investing £1.6bn ($2bn) to triple 25-year-old Ritesh Agrawal, the founder’s stake to 30 percent from 10 per cent in the company while light speed and Sequoia, its US backers partly cash out. The share buyback pushes OYO , the World’s third-largest hotel chain behind InterContinental…
The takeover of the Ei Group will add 4000 new publs to Stonegate Pub company’s ( owner of Slug & Lettuce) 765 existing locations . Simon Longbottom, CEO of Stonegate is owned by the Cayman Island registered private equity group TDR Capital said that although the deal ” slightly dwarfs what we’ve done before the…
The National Health Service opened the UK’s first ever cannabis treatment clinic in response to alarming levels of “skunk” induced psychosis, as tens and thousands of people are affected. Users of skunk, in the potent form of cannabis, are displaying symptoms of psychosis according to the psychiatrist leading the pilot clinic based in King’s College…
At The Pond is collection of essays by 14 women who swim at Kenwood, and grouped by season. Pond lovers include Margaret Drabble, Esther Freud, Deborah Mogach, Leanne Shapton, Jessica Lee among others. Eli Goldstone’s whose essay “like a Rat” os about the pond, but trying to find one’s place in the big city. She’s…
Just Eat has strengthened its board by poaching Jambu Palaniappan, ex-head of Uber Eats in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. They hope to satisfy activist investors who say the food delivery firm should be sold. Online takeaway firm Just Eat’s new executive director Jambu Palaniappan, from Tech Investment firm Atomico, Mike Evans, chairman of…
Five people have been arrested and questioned over alleged accounting fraud at the Patisserie Valerie chain according the Serious Fraud Office. The arrests took place last Tuesday, 18 th June 2019, in a joint operation with police, the SFO said. It took eight months after the firm’s former finance director Chris Marsh was arrested and…
America is continent populated by migrants who either displaced or killed the indigenous people and it is interesting historians tell the story of America through a particular movement or group. Joshua Specht examine the industries that helped make America rich and prosperous as well as environmental and political pattern have come back to bite America…