British Airways-owner IAG to raise $1 2 billion survival bond metro.us - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from metro.us Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘If I ever stand for one thing I hope it’s to just give it a go.’
The 33-year-old quit his job at Burger King to start the business from his bedroom with £1,000 of seed funding eight years ago, having left school with no qualifications. He sold a third of his stake in yesterday’s listing – handing him £12million.
His remaining 23.1 per cent stake was valued at nearly £29million when the stock market closed yesterday.
Stock Watch - Keywords Studios
Shares in Keywords Studios fell after the video games maker’s boss stepped down for a short time.
The firm said Andrew Day had taken a temporary leave of absence for health reasons, ‘effective immediately’.
Just Eat Takeaway threw down the gauntlet to rivals as it announced a rapid surge in demand from customers stuck at home.
The FTSE 100 food delivery company, the world s largest online takeaway platform, said UK orders rose 88 per cent in the first two months of 2021 as lockdown boosted business.
That followed a 35 per cent rise in orders to 179m in the UK last year, which pushed revenues up 42 per cent to £619million.
Just Eat, which is the world s largest online takeaway platform, said UK orders rose 88 per cent in the first two months of 2021 as lockdown boosted business
Group sales, across all the countries where it operates, jumped 54 per cent to £2billion as the number of orders rose 42 per cent to 588m.
Former Disney chairman Andy Bird unveiled a wide-ranging strategy to overhaul the firm, which is scrambling to adapt to an age where textbooks are no longer the norm and people learn online.
MARKET REPORT: New boss Andy Bird launches bold Pearson overhaul thisismoney.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thisismoney.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.