Audioboom enjoys bumper revenue growth during lockdown

Audioboom enjoys bumper revenue growth as the number of locked-down podcaster listeners swells Revenue rose to £19.7m in the past year, which is up around a fifth from 2019 Advertiser numbers up and group managed to narrow its losses  By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 17:01 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 17:01 GMT, 20 … Read more

Goldman Sachs bankers set to scoop £240k each after bumper year

Goldman Sachs bankers set to scoop £240k each in pay and perks after bumper year By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:54 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 19 January 2021 Goldman Sachs set aside almost £9.8billion in ‘compensation and benefits’ in 2020 for its 40,500 staff Goldman Sachs bankers are set … Read more

Sainsbury’s gets a £60m boost thanks to bumper Christmas sales

Sainsbury’s gets a £60m boost thanks to bumper Christmas sales as shares hit their highest level for nearly two years By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:19 GMT, 7 January 2021 | Updated: 22:39 GMT, 7 January 2021 Sainsbury’s shares hit the highest level for nearly two years yesterday after it said roaring … Read more

B&M will pay 30,000 staff a week’s extra wages amid bumper festive sales

B&M Bargains has doled out a 20p-a-share special dividend to shareholders as well as £30million to its boss Simon Arora after the cheap retailer enjoyed a bumper Christmas..  Arora and his family are the biggest shareholders in B&M, enabling him to pay himself £30million, in addition to a £44million dividend payout revealed two months ago. B&M will … Read more

Families who bought a huge turkey now face a bumper batch of leftovers

Make space in the freezer! Families who bought a huge turkey expecting guests for Christmas dinner now face a bumper batch of leftovers amid new lockdown rules stopping households from mixing Those yet to order turkey are likely to face scramble for smaller birds and crowns Families will be best off cooking the turkey and … Read more

PATRICK MARMION: Expect ghosts galore from 2020’s bumper crop of Christmas Carols 

A Christmas Carol (Old Vic, London; Bristol Old Vic; Dickens Museum, London; Polka Theatre, Watermill, Newbury) Verdict: God bless them, every one!   Can it be a coincidence that so many theatres are doing A Christmas Carol this year? I think not.  I reckon it’s the spirit of Christmases Past, rising up to banish our 2020 … Read more

One of Britain’s oldest Brussels sprout farms is blessed with a bumper crop this Christmas

Sprout-standing! One of Britain’s oldest Brussels sprout farms is blessed with a bumper crop this Christmas after a scorching summer sent yields soaring by 20% compared to last year A quarter of a million of the  sprouts will be hand-picked at Essington Farm  Staff at the Staffordshire farm will work all daylight hours during Christmas week Richard … Read more

Banks stockpile cash for bumper bonuses: Barclays boosts payout

Banks have begun stockpiling cash to pay out bumper bonuses in the New Year, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.  Documents show Barclays has boosted this year’s bonus pool for bankers by 9 per cent to £745million – £63million more than it set aside last year – after making huge profits at its investment bank.  … Read more

Big Brother: Kieran Davidson rides bumper cars at Luna Park with Allan Liang and Marissa Rancan

EXCLUSIVE: Big Brother ‘mastermind’ Kieran Davidson is reunited with Allan Liang and Marissa Rancan as they ride bumper cars at Sydney’s Luna Park By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:35 BST, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 05:35 BST, 12 October 2020 He rose to fame thanks to his mastermind tricks while competing on … Read more

Coronavirus frontline workers will get honours in ‘bumper’ Queen’s Birthday Honours List 

Hundreds of doctors, nurses and other heroes in the battle against coronavirus will be recognised in a ‘bumper’ honours list to be published next month. People who have made outstanding contributions in the UK’s response to the virus will be rewarded in a special Queen’s Birthday Honours List on October 10. Boris Johnson announced earlier … Read more