XL Group has unveiled a new Reinsurance Global Emerging Markets unit to benefit development in reinsurance markets. Led by Philippe Rochaix, who is currently in charge of the Latin America Reinsurance operations, the unit will form part ...
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The British Fashion Council (BFC) announces 36 British menswear designers will participate in the Designer Showrooms at London Collections: Men, 16-18th June 2013. This season sees the Designer Showrooms focus on a working environment to ...
In a multi-year partnership brokered and managed by IMG Licensing, a division of IMG Worldwide, the global sports, fashion and media company, Muhammad Ali Enterprises has teamed up with Double D, the exclusive worldwide licensee for Adidas ...
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British real estate developer Barratt Homes has cast eye on Chinese clients. People close to it said recently that a building in the Canary Wharf, London drew rising attention of it because up to 75 percent of the owners of apartments ...
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Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe. Payleven's chip-and-PIN reader can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or Android device via ...
Tags: Computer Products, Mobile payments
US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
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Dimension Data will install data centre architecture and physical infrastructure for London Gateway, the UK's first 21st Century deep-sea port, parent company DP World has announced. With the port due to open later this year, Dimension ...
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DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an unnamed financial services firm earlier this week using one of the largest traffic bombardments ever recorded, mitigation firm Prolexic has reported. The 167 Gbps peak attack hit what is being ...
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Goody bags for first 30 customers; appearances and ribbon cutting from F1 Marussia. Modelzone has opened a new store in Central London's New Oxford Street. The retailer is celebrating the shop opening by inviting F1 driver Rodolfo ...
Tesco, Amazon and John Lewis feature in celebration of e-commerce giants to be held on June 26th. The Internet Retailing Awards 2013 has unveiled its shortlist of industry front runners ahead of the ceremony next month. The list ...
Resource minister Lord de Mauley has visited Continuum Recycling – the plastic bottle recycling joint venture between Eco Plastics and Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) – to mark the completion of the plant’s first full year in ...
Bold and beautiful floral designs based on the traditional English garden and countryside meadows are part of the fabric collection from UK designer Emily Burningham now on sale from online home fabric company Curtains Made Simple. The ...
Governments routinely use the internet to spy on people and organisations, and to steal sensitive and classified information - and we'd all better get used to it. That is the message from Chinese' networking company Huawei's head of ...
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Sovereign Partners, a food package supplies firm based in London, has acquired c, the leading supplier of disposable lids for the foodservice sector and its wholly owned subsidiary Goodlife Eco-Friendly. Cap-It-All's business will ...
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At the Global Department Store Summit in Paris (GDSS), The Intercontinental Group of Department Stores (IGDS) announced that Selfridges has once again been recognised as the Best Department Store in the World for an unprecedented second ...