Wednesday, 23 December 2009
SlackBelly will be unwell...
I'm retiring to spend Christmas with my drinks cabinet. Back soon(ish).
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Cold Hertz
As a bit of snow yet again brings Britain to a halt, car rental firm Hertz is also now joining in the fun.
It is frantically ringing customers who had booked in London to tell them that the group has no more cars left in the capital, as apparently the fleet is stuck in the north.
That leaves a raft of customers - including many Gold Club card members - stranded in the city over the festive period. Merry Christmas!
It is frantically ringing customers who had booked in London to tell them that the group has no more cars left in the capital, as apparently the fleet is stuck in the north.
That leaves a raft of customers - including many Gold Club card members - stranded in the city over the festive period. Merry Christmas!
Monday, 21 December 2009
Bottom of the Hill?
What price on another profit warning from bookie William Hill?
I ask as the Nicholls/Walsh combination cleans up in the big races, while racing is being cancelled due to the weather - none of which will go down well with the turf accountants.
Football results have picked up for bookies of late, but they don't usually need much of an excuse to start moaning. Even money.
I ask as the Nicholls/Walsh combination cleans up in the big races, while racing is being cancelled due to the weather - none of which will go down well with the turf accountants.
Football results have picked up for bookies of late, but they don't usually need much of an excuse to start moaning. Even money.
Friday, 18 December 2009
Double chin and tonic
Chubby Nicko Miles - the M Communications boss who is one of the most successful financial PR deal makers in the City - is deferring to a new adviser.
Lady Isabella Hervey (sister of that awful brat, Victoria) has been engaged as Nicko's new personal trainer, and the jolly spinmeister brags to friends that she is "rather thin".
She doesn't say the same about him.
Lady Isabella Hervey (sister of that awful brat, Victoria) has been engaged as Nicko's new personal trainer, and the jolly spinmeister brags to friends that she is "rather thin".
She doesn't say the same about him.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
FT brothers scoop their own scoop
Those nice chaps at the Financial Times can only be pushed so far.
Like BA staff, there is a day of action today and a picket (at the FT!). The National Union of Journalists are outside the building, in the snow, and meeting inside to discuss "Unsafe and Unprofessional workloads" says my spy.
The NUJ are also handing out flyers, the highlight of which is this: "Lloyd Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs boss and the FT's 'Person of the Year' is not the only doing God's work - so are FT journalists inproducing premium products for a discerning audience."
A slight problem is that the NUJ staffers have broken an embargo, because the great vampire squid himself has not actually been named Person of the Year by the FT, yet.
Whoops.
Like BA staff, there is a day of action today and a picket (at the FT!). The National Union of Journalists are outside the building, in the snow, and meeting inside to discuss "Unsafe and Unprofessional workloads" says my spy.
The NUJ are also handing out flyers, the highlight of which is this: "Lloyd Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs boss and the FT's 'Person of the Year' is not the only doing God's work - so are FT journalists inproducing premium products for a discerning audience."
A slight problem is that the NUJ staffers have broken an embargo, because the great vampire squid himself has not actually been named Person of the Year by the FT, yet.
Whoops.
Monday, 14 December 2009
Interactive Investor looking for eye-to-eye
Is financial services website, Interactive Investor, looking to do a trade of its own? I keep being told that chief exec Tomas Curruthers is hawking the business around. Developing...
Friday, 11 December 2009
Chat blow for Rothschild
With the mysterious British Virgin Islands duo of Munto Finance and Qadbak looking to take an early bath from their Notts County "project" (see below), I wonder how the fallout is being viewed at the venerable institution that is Rothschild bank?
Qadbak - which supposedly funded Notts through Munto and once claimed to be buying the BMW Sauber Formula One team - has had to put up with nosey journalists questioning its financing for months. But at least it had the unquestioning support of Rothschild banker, Meyrick Cox, who acted as an adviser to BMW and was so confident in the group that he even chatted with journalists on the subject.
"So Meyrick," my email to the shrewd banker begins. "The Qadbak deal to buy the BMW Sauber team has collapsed. And now the Notts County takeover is unravelling. Many people saw it all coming. But not you! So, I wonder, do you still stick by your comments that Qadbak is a 'wholly reputable organisation'."
So far, no answer from Meyrick. Busy, I expect.
Qadbak - which supposedly funded Notts through Munto and once claimed to be buying the BMW Sauber Formula One team - has had to put up with nosey journalists questioning its financing for months. But at least it had the unquestioning support of Rothschild banker, Meyrick Cox, who acted as an adviser to BMW and was so confident in the group that he even chatted with journalists on the subject.
"So Meyrick," my email to the shrewd banker begins. "The Qadbak deal to buy the BMW Sauber team has collapsed. And now the Notts County takeover is unravelling. Many people saw it all coming. But not you! So, I wonder, do you still stick by your comments that Qadbak is a 'wholly reputable organisation'."
So far, no answer from Meyrick. Busy, I expect.
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