Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou calls for vote on whether to sack director in aeroplane order row By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:04 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 2 April 2020 Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s asked for a meeting of shareholders to decide whether to remove Andreas Bierwirth from the … Read more
Easyjet’s founder goes to war with struggling airline over its plans to spend £4.5bn on aircraft By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 30 March 2020 | Updated: 22:10 BST, 30 March 2020 Easyjet’s founder has gone to war with the struggling airline over its plans to spend £4.5 billion on aircraft. … Read more
Hotel Chocolat founder slams ‘crazy’ rates regime with stores paying more on property tax than they do on rent By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:42 GMT, 25 February 2020 | Updated: 23:42 GMT, 25 February 2020 The co-founder of Hotel Chocolat has demanded the Chancellor shake up the ‘crazy’ business rates system. … Read more
As Roger Saul, the founder of the Mulberry designer label, gazes out over his Somerset farm, the English countryside is so idyllic it is hard to believe a lethal pandemic is sweeping the world. ‘There is the most wonderful sunset coming in, with loads of birds flying around. It is beautiful. But even before the … Read more
IWG founder sees £70m wiped off his personal fortune as office space provider is forced to close locations By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 GMT, 23 March 2020 | Updated: 22:10 GMT, 23 March 2020 IWG founder Mark Dixon has seen the value of his stake in the office space provider fall … Read more
Talktalk founder increases his stake with a £1m share swoop sparking speculation that he may be planning a takeover bid By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:47 GMT, 10 March 2020 | Updated: 22:47 GMT, 10 March 2020 Talktalk chairman Sir Charles Dunstone (pictured, with his wife Celia) has increased his stake again … Read more
Marie Farmer (pictured) started a nutrition app after challenges with weaning her autistic son, August With only a handful pledges two weeks into her online crowdfunding appeal, Marie Farmer knew she had to resort to desperate measures to meet her £5,000 fundraising target. Even though she was on holiday, she knew she had to start … Read more
Taxi app founder Travis Kalanick poised to join the Uber rich making £6.6BILLION from stock float Kalanick owns 8.6% of Uber’s shares and will be a major winner in the listing Fellow founder Garrett Camp also stands to make around £4.6bn By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 10:14 GMT, 13 April 2019 | … Read more
Amigo founder accuses controversial loans firm of ‘slow motion suicide’ as shares fall to record low By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 5 March 2020 The founder of ‘legal loan shark’ Amigo triggered a bitter war of words with the company after accusing it … Read more
He is loved by Hollywood A-listers and studio bosses alike, dubbed one of the most powerful men in Tinseltown and worth a reported £50 million. But when Manchester-born Col Needham walks into a glittering Hollywood event, as he will next Sunday when he co-hosts Elton John’s annual Oscars Aids fundraiser, few will have heard of … Read more