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Founder of Soho House private members clubs sells £15m of his stake after Covid halted expansion plans By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 28 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 28 December 2020 The founder of Soho House private members clubs has sold £15m of his stake after the virus halted … Read more
A new platform connecting startups with potential business partners has launched, spurred on by an increase in people taking the plunge to become entrepreneurs during the pandemic. Object Astra is a platform designed to help people with a business idea find professionals with the skills and know-how they need to give them ‘sweat equity’. In … Read more
Richard Cadbury Butler as a child left, with his father, Arnold The war hero great-grandson of the founder of Cadbury’s chocolate was a convicted drug smuggler, it can now be revealed. Richard Cadbury Butler made thousands importing narcotics into 1920s Britain until he was caught with a pound of cocaine stashed in a chocolate box, … Read more
Marie Stopes abortion charity changes its name to MSI Reproductive Choices to distance itself from its founder’s links to eugenics Charity is dropping name of woman who created Britain’s first birth control clinic The charity will instead be known as MSI Reproductive Choices from today Stopes was advocate for sterilisation of people considered unfit for … Read more
Dozens of Julian Assange supporters including his father and Vivienne Westwood gathered outside the Old Bailey in London today, where the WikiLeaks founder is set to continue his fight against extradition to the US. The 49-year-old, who has been in high-security Belmarsh Prison for 16 months, is wanted in the US over the publication of … Read more
A co-founder of fashion retailer Boohoo has links to a factory in Leicester accused of paying staff less than the minimum wage, it has been revealed. The brand has confirmed that the factory at the heart of the ‘human trafficking and slavery’ allegations is run by Morefray Ltd, a Manchester-owned firm with ties to the I Saw … Read more
The sweatshop slavery scandal engulfing Boohoo has cost its founders more than £335million in just two days. Its shares fell another 11.9 per cent, or 35.3p, yesterday to 261.4p – taking losses so far this week to 32.5 per cent. That has wiped £1.6billion off the value of the company, and cost founders Carol Kane … Read more
It’s a family affair! Boohoo buys Pretty Little Things fashion label from founder’s playboy son in £300m deal By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:04 BST, 28 May 2020 The playboy son of Boohoo’s chairman is in line for a £300million windfall after the online retail … Read more
You’d be forgiven for thinking the creator of the drug that cured the erectile dysfunction of millions around the world would be enjoying the profits of his hard work. But you’d be wrong. Instead, the co-creator of Viagra, Dr David Brown, has set himself the ambitious challenge of finding treatments for 100 rare diseases by … Read more