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...These include Sir John Griffin, founder of taxi company Addison Lee, who is given a knighthood for services to business and charity....
...Data visualisation by Keith Fray Letter in response to this article: Ghana’s cathedral — design in haste, repent at leisure / From Ciara Malins-Smith, London SW4, UK...
...The satnav in a Mercedes-Benz car recognises the words as an address, as do the London private cab company Addison Lee and Careem, the Dubai-based ride-hailing app....
...Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group, argued that powerful corporations were “trying to weasel their way out” of their responsibilities...
...One PE situation to watch: Carlyle has instructed advisers to sell taxi business Addison Lee by early next year as the private equity firm races to avoid a debt restructuring. More here....
...(FT) Amazon holds talks with Indonesian ride-hailing start-up Gojek (WSJ) Carlyle is said to weigh US listing for Addison Lee minicabs (BBG) Toyota and Suzuki deepen alliance with capital tie-up (FT)...
...“London is a much more complex environment than some of the US environments,” said Graeme Smith, Oxbotica chief executive....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Employment tribunals have also ruled that other taxi and delivery companies, including Addison Lee, have wrongly classed their drivers as self employed....
...People working for companies such as Deliveroo, Uber, Citysprint and Addison Lee are claiming they should be classed as workers, rather than independent contractors, and should be entitled to benefits such...
...Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Pimlico Plumbers and its founder, Charlie Mullins, after plumber Gary Smith persuaded the court of appeal that he was a “worker”, which allowed...
...A number of employment tribunals have also recently ruled that delivery companies, including Addison Lee, have wrongly classified their drivers as self-employed, rather than workers....
...There is a growing body of case law in which judges have concluded that individuals at companies such as Addison Lee, Excel and Citysprint were in fact workers rather than independent contractors....
...She wrote six great novels, including Emma and Pride and Prejudice, before dying at the age of 41, possibly from the hormone disorder Addison’s disease....
...Kim Nilsson CEO and Co-Founder, Pivigo Laurence Kemball-Cook Founder and CEO, Pavegen Liam Griffin Vice-Chairman and former CEO, Addison Lee Liz Rice Co-Founder and CEO, Microscaling Systems...
...Iain Duncan Smith, work and pensions secretary, believes these estimates are flawed as they do not take into account “dynamic” effects....
...Fletcher has worked in Chiswick since 1982 when the high street was dominated by mid-market retail chains like WH Smith and Woolworths....
...The Addison Lee app has to be a personal favourite – the best app for travel and ground transport in London. Often I’m connecting from London meetings to airports, in a tight timeframe....
...MYOB is the latest in a string of accounting software companies to be sold, including Iris Software, Computer Software Group and Addison Software....
...Indeed, it was a New Labour politician, Chris Smith, who revealed for the first time that it was possible to be an openly gay cabinet minister without the walls tumbling down....
...Others supposedly with their ear to the ground, such as the Citizen’s Advice Bureau, the London Transport Board, WH Smith & Sons and the Brewers’ Society, reported too, as did Chief Constables, the Postal...
...Last month it acquired Casa Reha, a leading nursing home provider in Germany, for an undisclosed sum and in November raised €115m for Addison Software, the German tax accounting group....
...the final room: in Frank Stella’s “East Broadway”, a shimmer of yellow and black horizontals that is also a cityscape; in Alexander Calder’s soaring, biomorphic sculpture “Horizontal Spines”; in David Smith...
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