Pension Bee founder’s stake set to be worth £135m when savings app lists on the stock market next month By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:14 BST, 30 March 2021 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 30 March 2021 The founder of Pension Bee will be sitting on shares worth £135million when her company lists … Read more
Boost Juice founders Janine and Jeff Allis sell five-bedroom Toorak mansion for over $20 million ahead of move to Northern Beaches By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:54 GMT, 16 March 2021 | Updated: 07:54 GMT, 16 March 2021 Boost Juice founders Janine and Jeff Allis have sold their Toorak mansion just one … Read more
Haberdashers’ Aske’s £21,000-a-year private schools could change name after discovering founder had shares in slave trading company which transported 100,000 Africans to plantations in the West Indies and America The Habs schools could change their name due to its founder’s links to slavery Robert Aske had shares in the Royal African Company which enslaved 100,000 … Read more
One in five women are considering starting their own business this year, according to new research from support network Small Business Britain. Despite the coronavirus pandemic having severely damaged some long-standing businesses, and led many to lose their jobs or a large part of their income, budding entrepreneurs are looking to make the most of … Read more
The industrialists behind Renishaw are set for a £2.6bn windfall after putting the engineering giant they founded up for sale. Sir David McMurtry, 80, and John Deer, 83, set up the company in 1973 and built it into a world-leading manufacturer of precision measurement devices, worth £5billion. But they said they now ‘felt the time … Read more
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
Julian Assange’s father and girlfriend greeted each other with a kiss outside the Old Bailey as the WikiLeaks founder appeared in court for his US extradition hearing today. Around 100 demonstrators set up outside the court this morning, including fashion designer Westwood, who was wearing bright yellow football boots. Assange, who has been in high-security … Read more