The purchase from previous owner Sir Phillip Green is expected to see the Topshop and Topman brands continue their rapid expansion around the world. Leonard Green and Partners already has investments in a host of retail businesses, including fashion chain J Crew and food seller Whole Foods Market.

Leighton Offshore, in consortium with Boskalis Offshore, has been awarded a transportation, installation and dredging contract by Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd to replace part of the single point mooring (SPM) 48” subsea pipeline. The project is located near Bukom Island, Singapore and is part of Shell’s planned maintenance.

Are the leaders who managed businesses through the early stages of the economic downturn still the right people to lead us into the next stage of recovery?

Earlier this year, I was talking with a group of CEOs from a variety of different sectors. There was a definite sense that this was a New Year, that the worst was behind us and there would be new opportunities to be seized.

In the space of ten years Africa’s renewable energy sector has undergone phenomenal change. Managing director of African Energy, Lincoln Dahl, discusses how his company has remained at the centre of a rapidly evolving market.

CEO Monehela Posholi talks about the regulator’s responsibility and challenges in meeting the population’s expectations for 21st century communications.

Zimbabwe’s telecommunications industry can only be described as frenetic, as its economy makes up for lost time. Harare-based internet access provider Aquiva Wireless is grasping the nettle of 4G technology to push that growth forward.

Manager of local supplier and contractor development, George Brakoh, explains how the economic legacy left behind by Newmont Ghana Gold will benefit the local community for years to come.

Boasting economic growth rates that have consistently topped six percent in recent years, Ghana is universally lauded as being an emerging African economic success story. A peaceful and stable democratic nation, Ghana continues to make strong progress towards its goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2020.

Developed by Blue Energy, a UK-based renewable energy investment company, the Nzema project in Ghana will be ultimately be able to provide electricity to more than 100,000 homes.

Construction work on the $400 million plant is due to begin within the next 12 months, with the developers optimistic that finance will be confirmed within half of that time. Upon completion, the 155 megawatt plant will increase Ghana’s generating capacity by six percent.

Singapore Airlines currently holds a 49 percent in Virgin, with billionaire Richard Branson holding a controlling 51 percent of the business. Should it become a reality, a partnership with Virgin would provide Delta with access to the lucrative transatlantic business travellers market that exists between the US and London.

It is a well-known fact that Delta has been looking to buy into Virgin for more than two years now as it looks to increase its access to London’s Heathrow airport, where Virgin is the second-biggest airline present.