Our resident wine expert, Caspar Bowes of Bowes Wine, looks at challenging terroir and resultant unique taste of single grape wines

The UK workforce is becoming increasingly held back by mental health problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. According to research by Robert Half UK, 

Social impact investment company Resonance has launched their latest Social Impact Tax Relief (SITR) Fund in the North West.

Award winning British content company Somethin’ Else is casting for a ground-breaking podcast series in which one of the UK’s most charismatic serial entrepreneurs and financiers, Professor Stefan Allesch-Taylor CBE, will invest up to £250,000 in one great business.

For the second year running, I eschewed the annual en primeurs tastings in Bordeaux this vintage. 

Ongoing uncertainty makes it increasingly difficult to predict what the UK business ecosystem will look like or which cities will thrive post-Brexit. 

London Food Tech Week - the world’s largest week-long festival and showcase of the latest food trends and companies using technology to transform the food and drink ecosystem – will return to the capital from 20 to 24 May 2019 with a game-changing line up.

By Caspar Bowes, Bowes Wine

Inflexion Private Equity has acquired Times Higher Education (“THE”) from TPG Capital, the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG. THE, formerly part of Tes Global, has been carved out as an independent entity as part of the investment from Inflexion. The investment was made by Inflexion’s dedicated mid-market buyout funds.

I’ve just returned from a few days in Burgundy: a brief sojourn that offered (besides clear insights into the qualities of the 2017 vintage 

“I remember a visit to a domaine in Burgundy – Chambolle-Musigny to be precise – during which a question about oak opened 

Green Angel Syndicate has invested in Piclo (formerly Open Utility) in its latest round to finance the expansion of its revolutionary energy trading software system, Piclo Flex.

‘Flexibility’ is the term used in the energy market to describe the balancing of energy consumption or generation in response to a price or an instruction. There is currently no efficient system to trade flexible energy consumption and generation in a dynamic, responsive and – most of all – rapid manner.