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Miles Costello and David Robertson The appetite for flotations on the London Stock Exchange is ready to spring back to life with a clutch of companies worth a combined $10 billion (£6 billion) planning to list their shares....
LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Following are initial public offerings in the pipeline for companies in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. To submit entries for this diary, contact Daisy Ku at +44 20 7542-5106 or...
Whitbread, the leisure group, is in talks to create the dominant force in the British budget hotel market by merging its Premier Inn chain with the rival hotel company Travelodge. Under the terms of any tie-up, Whitbread, the...
Travelodge, the budget hotel operator, will continue its march into Britain’s biggest cities today when it announces new projects in Edinburgh and Manchester as part of an expansion thrust costing almost £50 million.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has established a Members Advisory Board (MAB) consisting of prominent chartered accountants from across the Middle East. The Board will meet regularly to...
West Ham could still save the Olympic Stadium from being a white elephant by moving in after London 2012. News that Intermarket, a group linked with an Upton Park takeover, met the Olympic Park Legacy Company to discuss options...
by Natsuko Waki and John Irish on Saturday, 07 November 2009 Words of confidence from Dubai policymakers may not convince investors anxiously awaiting the fate of Nakheel’s $3.5bn Islamic bond, and the next installment of the...
Japan is actively wooing the UAE sovereign wealth funds (SWF) in an aim to beef up its foreign direct investment from three per cent to five per cent by next year. A senior official from Japan External Trade Organisation...
The unravelling of the debt-fuelled private-equity bubble is set to continue with Britain’s biggest packaging company poised for a bank takeover. Linpac, which makes fast-food cartons for McDonald’s and packaging for Asda and...
A developing trend for specialised sovereign wealth funds to seek global credit ratings could provide them with new sources of financing while testing their skills under an unaccustomed spotlight. State-owned funds from Bahrain...
