Sky will reach a new High Definition (HD) milestone this summer by exceeding the 40 HD channel mark. The launch of ITV1 HD, Hallmark Channel HD and Sky Sports HD 4 will extend Sky’s HD leadership to 40 HD channels, five times more than any other HD service. Sky will also be launching Europe’s first [...]
npower, energy provider, has agreed a new three-year title sponsorship with The Football League.
From the beginning of the 2010/11 season, The League’s flagship competition will be titled ‘The npower Football League’ with its three divisions being titled ‘The npower Championship’, ‘npower League 1′ and ‘npower League 2′.
Football League Chairman Lord Mawhinney said: “I am delighted [...]
LighterLife has relaunched its LighterLife magazine with a new look and improved content to offer readers added inspiration and understanding of just what LighterLife offers. The new feel and design of the magazine has been created with the help of publishing house, Specialist Publications.
The re-launch sees the weight loss magazine take on a new, clean [...]
Barclaycard Freedom, one of the broadest rewards schemes in the UK, has been launched, with over eight million Barclaycard cardholders now able to earn Reward Money for simply using their Barclaycard to buy goods and services in participating outlets. As well as the launch of the scheme, Barclaycard is delighted to announce that Shell has [...]
The Harley Medical Group has reported that men are increasingly using cosmetic surgery to banish their unsightly belt overhang.
Dubbed by surgeons as the ‘man tuck’, over 55% more men aged 35+ had tummy tucks (abdominoplasties) in the first two months of 2010 compared with the same time last year, with the figures still rising, according [...]
On the day (16th March 2010) Debenhams reported higher sales and profits in the first half of its financial year; the high street retailer also unveiled Pixie Geldof as the model behind the latest addition to its designer portfolio, H! by Henry Holland.
The H! by Henry Holland range will sit alongside the likes of [...]
npower has launched a plea for businesses to make the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) a board level concern and develop a strategy to manage participation to avoid financial loss and reputational damage.
This is the message of a new film – Understanding the CRC from energy firm npower, designed to help businesses prepare [...]
NH Hoteles’ latest initiative, in conjunction with Siemens, combines research into home automation, state-of-the art technology and environmental awareness to create intelligent rooms in the NH Eurobuilding hotel in Madrid.
The two prototype rooms in the NH Eurobuilding have been fitted out with the very latest technology from Siemens to monitor the water, light and energy [...]
Debenhams.com launches two new online services: ‘Collect from Store’ and ‘International Delivery’ to give customers a more comprehensive online service.
Following the successful launch of the Debenhams in-store ordering service, ‘Collect from Store’ allows shoppers to buy online and have their shopping delivered to their local store for collection, free of charge.
In addition, customers [...]
The Children’s Mutual, a leading Child Trust Fund provider, has revealed that millions of parents in Britain are being forced to postpone their retirement to meet the rapidly rising financial burden of supporting their adult children.
Research from the award winning Child Trust Fund provider has found 57% of parents of 18 to 30 year olds, [...]
Superbreak, short break specialist, increases its range of theatre packages following the eagerly awaited premiere of Love Never Dies.
The most eagerly awaited new musical of the last twenty years held its World Premiere at London’s Adelphi Theatre in front a dazzling star-studded audience. Dubbed as his biggest challenge yet, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Love Never Dies’ [...]
Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, will now offer property investment products for both private clients and institutional investors through a new company, Saxo Properties.
The newly formed investment firm Saxo Properties, fully owned by Saxo Bank, will launch closed-ended funds for both high net worth clients and institutional investors. Two of the Danish [...]
Promethean, a world leader in the rapidly growing global market for interactive learning technology, has been awarded a multi-million euro contract to install 4,550 of its ActivBoard+2 interactive whiteboards, together with ActivInspire, Promethean’s specialised teaching and learning software, in 1,900 schools in the Spanish region of Andalucia. This represents around a 70% share of the [...]
Prudential has further developed its annuity range this spring with the launch of a reinvigorated Flexible Lifetime Annuity.
The launch comes at a time when falling corporate bond rates are putting downward pressure on conventional annuity rates and people in retirement are increasingly looking beyond traditional choices when considering their retirement income options.
The new Flexible [...]
House of Fraser has introduced the new Desigual menswear and Desigual childrenswear collections to its online range.
The new Desigual menswear collection highlights prints and materials, with pieces inspired by neo-hippie and artisan styling as seen in rural floral themes, Russian iconography and American country.
The Desigual childrenswear range which is only available through the House [...]
Rackspace, the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry has announced that it has been voted as the overall 30th best place to work in the UK and once again the highest ranking IT Services company, in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies Awards. Commended for its continued focus on employee [...]
Warner Leisure Hotels has announced that a couple from Abingdon has been crowned the winners of its first official Strictly Come Dancing holiday breaks.
Amanda McCabe and Julian Siret were presented with an engraved glass glitter ball trophy by stars of the BBC TV show Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova after winning the final of the [...]
North of England commercial property company Bruntwood has filed its latest set of accounts for the financial year 2009, reporting an increase in turnover of 11.5% to £97m and operating profit of 9.5% to £12.6m.
Chris Oglesby, Bruntwood’s chief executive, said: “Against a very difficult economic backdrop, I am proud of the way our team at [...]
H.Samuel has announced a drive to support charity in 2010. The UK’s favourite high street jeweller kicked off the year by selling Valentine’s beads by Truth to raise money for the Variety Club Children’s Charity. It followed this with a jewellery cleaning service in return for donations to help raise money for Haiti through UNICEF. [...]
LV=, insurance, pensions and investments group, has announced that it is opening new offices in Huddersfield. This is in addition to LV=’s road rescue company, Britannia Rescue, which is already based in Huddersfield town centre, employing around 100 people.
The new LV= offices will be in Folly Hall and are scheduled to open in July [...]
The latest NS&I (National Savings and Investments) survey release has shown that the average age for Britons to start saving seriously is 25 years-old. More than a fifth (22%) of the population said they didn’t start setting money aside in earnest until they were past their 30th birthday, while more than 13% fail to seriously [...]
House of Fraser, the premium department store, has launched a new area called Testbed on its website to trial five new niche brands dedicated to women’s fashion.
Very by Vero Moda, Paul & Joe Sister, Selected Femme, Almost Famous and Pink Soda are all featured in the new Testbed section of the House of Fraser site. [...]
Experian, the global information services company, has announced that it has partnered with HypoVereinsbank (HVB), one of the largest commercial banks in Germany, to provide the bank and its corporate customers with a data validation and conversion service to aid compliance with the latest SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area) standards. HVB is part of the [...]
VocaLink, the specialist provider of transaction services to banks, has launched a scheme to help raise money for Bonita Norris in her attempt to become the youngest British female to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in order to raise money for Global Angels.
VocaLink, as the official sponsor of the challenge, is trying to raise [...]
The Harley Medical Group reports that high arches are the must-have look for this year, with Megan Fox, Eva Mendes and Beyonce sporting sculptured brows on the red carpet.
The Harley Medical Group, the UK’s largest cosmetic surgery provider, is reporting increased enquiries into non-surgical eyebrow lifts of around 39%, as women across the UK [...]