WATCH out, watch out – there’s a Humphrey about. Do you remember that tagline from TV adverts for milk in the 1970s? I didn’t think you would. It was used by dairy Unigate to promote its doorstep deliveries of bottled milk. A “Humphrey” was a mysterious figure that kept drinking people’s milk through long striped […]
David Parkin on a brewing problem and giving the hump to rugby fans Read More »
WHAT do you call 16,000 property professionals when they converge on a city for a major conference? Well, in my experience, anything you like, because they are too busy striding boldly through the city tugging wheelie cases and bellowing into mobile phones or talking loudly to each other about what deals they are about to
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I KNOW Frank Sinatra’s original Rat Pack had a reputation as hellraisers but I didn’t expect their modern day tribute act to be quite the same. However news reaches me that the Rat Pack tribute act that I booked for the lunch to celebrate the life of Leeds lawyer Rodney Dalton have been at the
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WELL that didn’t take long. Two years after the latest Gino D’Acampo-branded restaurant opened in Leeds, the hospitality firm behind it has done a pre-pack administration deal to shed a load of debt. The Leeds restaurant opened inside the Marriott Hotel off Boar Lane in 2023 with a £1.5m investment and “feature’s” (that is their punctuation, not
David Parkin on the ups and downs of running a business Read More »
IT was just like it used to be. Big hitters in a restaurant, doing deals, swapping war stories and laughing uproariously. Garry Wilson and Darren Forshaw of Endless held a drinks event yesterday to celebrate their move to become joint chairs of the private equity firm they founded 20 years ago. In that two decades
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