Motel One has been valued at €4.1bn (£3.5bn) after a 35 per cent stake was sold to its majority shareholder. Real estate private equity firm Proprium Capital Partners has sold …
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The 5 best Paris hotels to book for the 2024 Olympics
The 2024 Olympics takes place across various locations in Paris between 26 July and 11 August 2024. As the days lengthen and we Londoners gradually start to shed our musty winter …
Team GB’s secret weapon in bid for Paris 2024 Olympic success? Covid measures
Team GB say they will still be enforcing Covid-19 measures on athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Great Britain were one of the only teams to go through both pandemic …
Team GB rower Glover happy to take back seat in pursuit of more Olympic gold
British rower Helen Glover is not used to relinquishing power but she is willing to adapt as she prepares for her fourth Olympic Games. The double Olympic champion came out …
Klarna: 75 per cent of staff now use AI tools like ChatGPT as it looks at reducing hiring
Around three quarters of employees at Klarna regularly use tools like ChatGPT, its head of AI has told City A.M., as the buy-now pay-later (BNPL) giant leverages the technology to …
What is the Bank of England’s ‘once in a generation’ Bernanke review?
This Friday, the Bank of England will reveal the results of its “once in a generation” review into its internal operations, a review that some economists think could lead to …
Post Office scandal: 73,000 documents handed to inquiry in ‘disruptive’ disclosure – as Alan Bates gives evidence
The Post Office has disclosed more than 73,000 documents to the inquiry looking into the Horizon IT scandal in a “highly disruptive” disclosure, the inquiry heard. Lead campaigner and former …
Conservatives select Very Group’s finance boss to fight General Election
The chief financial officer of The Very Group has been selected as a Conservative candidate at the up-coming General Election. Ben Fletcher will contest the Crewe and Nantwich constituency which …
Extreme E series cuts carbon footprint by nearly 10 per cent
Electric racing series Extreme E this morning announced it has cut its carbon footprint by another 8.2 per cent. The off-road series – which has teams under the ownership of …
The Very Group hires former Fenwick boss as new chief
The Very Group has appointed the former boss of department store chain Fenwick as its new chief executive. Retail managing director Robbie Feather has been promoted to succeed Lionel Desclé, …