Amid all the slagging-off of Labour and its leader Ed Miliband’s attitude to business, one Tory peer deliberately rejected the open goal offered to her by Spy.
Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk and Conservative life peer, declined the opportunity to join fellow captains of industry such as Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Ian Cheshire.
“I’m here to talk about TalkTalk’s success in my capacity as chief executive of a public company,” declared Baroness Harding of Winscombe, of Nether Compton in the County of Dorset, with a knowing smile.
Ocado bear Black in celebratory mood
Shore Capital’s Clive Black, a long-term Ocado bear, tries — and fails — to keep the sarcasm out of his note when “celebrating” the online grocer’s first-ever pre-tax profits yesterday.
“After a decade and a half of trying, Ocado has worked out how to deliver baked beans, ice cream, Jaffa cakes and chipotle chillies without booking a bottom-line loss. We welcome the passing over of this financial threshold.”
Sagi splashes out on Playtech’s bash
To Camden Market, where Playtech boss Teddy Sagi was hosting the unofficial after-party for the Totally Gaming expo getting the thumb-bashers excited at the Excel Centre.
The billionaire founder of the world’s largest gaming company was toasting a 20-year deal with Finnish operator Ray with Idris Elba and Pixie Geldof on decks and Clean Bandit playing live during its annual bash at Gilgamesh.
The depths of the Israeli entrepreneur’s pockets were doubtless tested — but he is worth $2.2 billion (£1.45 billion).
Teasing us for Fifty Shades of Grey
Alarming to see the Odeon cinema group wrapping the Imax in Waterloo in a vast ad for Fifty Shades of Grey.
Sitting through an hour and a half of people’s wobbly bits on a screen 20 metres high seems an unreasonable act of masochism in itself.
But when, in the interests of research, Spy attempted to buy a ticket, it emerged it would not be screened at the vast venue.
“That’s just an advert,” Odeon claims.
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Ah well, in an era when a bondage movie can make it into the mainstream, how quaint to see the marketeers’ art of the tease still thrives.
