There was sad news for the UK high street yesterday as Clinton Cards was put into administration by its largest supplier. The familiar card shop with over 8,000 staff and over 750 stores had recently seen its bank debt bought up by American Greetings, the second largest player in the world greeting card market [...]

  Volkswagen Group (VG) has just announced that their Audi arm has done a deal to buy Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. The Italian luxury motorcycle brand will further diversify Volkswagen Group’s now rather wide range of automotive products. VG didn’t reveal details of the takeover, but it has been widely reported that they paid around [...]

  Spanish workers are revolting against their new three month old government.The country’s biggest unions are up in arms over labour reforms and planned austerity measures,calling a general strike for today (29th March 2012). Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative People’s Party was elected on a platform of saving the country from economic ruin. They [...]

When most people think about public relations they think of it in terms of press agentry. They see a public relations practitioner’s job as trying to get their clients or organisation free media coverage. And while that is one facet of public relations, it is only one (relatively small) part of a rounded public relations [...]

  Japanese car manufacturing giants Nissan have unveiled the latest creation from their luxury sports car brand Infiniti… and it’s been designed and built in the UK. The new Infiniti Emerg-e supercar boasts some interesting green tech as well as pretty impressive performance stats; the car shoot from zero to 60mph in four seconds flat [...]

This week we’ve seen one of the UK’s best supported football clubs going into administration. Rangers Football Club was effectively forced to bring in their own administrators when HMRC started proceedings to have a court appoint administrators to run the club. The move to put Rangers in administration could see the club losing many of [...]

  The former boss of the French company at the centre of the substandard breast implant scandal has been arrested. Jean-Claude Mas (72) and his former chief executive Claude Couty were both arrested in South-East France earlier today. Already having been charged as part of a parallel fraud case, the two are now facing the [...]

  When I think of gold mining I generally always conjure up images of toothless prospectors trying to strike it rich in the California Gold Rush. I see checked shirts, sun-beaten faces, pick axes and sticks of dynamite. It’s quite incredible how powerfully popular media has influenced my perceptions of this industry. One place I’d [...]

  In a move which will no doubt delight consumers, the Government has revealed plans to stop companies charging excessive credit and debit card surcharges. The new regulations will also force those charging card fees to reveal the cost before consumers have clicked through a multitude of webpages. The new regulations follow a lengthy campaign [...]

Iconic U.S. carrier American Airlines (AA) has come under fire from unions for holding on to plush London townhouse during their recent cost cutting measures. The struggling company’s $30bn in liabilities recently forced them to file for bankruptcy after they couldn’t agree a reduced pay deal with their pilots. The details of the swanky London [...]