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Addison Lee

  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Addison Lee executive admits to faking email in tribunal case

    About 700 drivers are taking legal action against the private-hire taxi group, seeking to be classified as workers

    An Addison Lee courier van outside Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Addison Lee to be bought by Singapore-listed group in £269mn deal

    UK private-hire taxi company is due to undergo its third change of ownership in just over a decade

    A cyclist wearing an Addison Lee backpack rides past an Addison Lee minicab in central London.
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Addison Lee drivers prepare to strike over pay and conditions

    Private hire and taxi provider is latest gig economy business to come under pressure over workers’ employment status

  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Addison Lee flags drop in bookings from UK financial sector

    London private taxi and courier company says Canary Wharf activity particularly quiet

  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Addison Lee operating profits lifted by post-lockdown demand

    Chief says taxi group has ‘ridden out the storm’ caused by Uber and other ride-hailing apps

    An Addison Lee courier pedals past an Addison Lee minicab in central London
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
    Carlyle aims to sell Addison Lee before debt deadline

    Taxi business is due to repay majority of £230m borrowings by April

    An Addison Lee courier pedals past an Addison Lee minicab in central London, Britain September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville
  • Wednesday, 14 November, 2018
    Addison Lee loses workers’ rights appeal

    Tribunal rules that drivers for minicab company are staff not self-employed

    An Addison Lee courier pedals past an Addison Lee minicab in central London, Britain September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville
  • Sunday, 21 October, 2018
    Driverless vehicles
    Self-driving vehicles set to operate in London by 2021

    Tech group and private hire company look at minibus shuttles for commuters

    D7M9F4 Addison Lee private taxi Central London
  • Monday, 26 February, 2018
    UK economy
    Private hire cars face paying London congestion charge

    TfL considers extending £11.50-a-day levy to likes of Uber and Addison Lee

    DYY0X9 Congestion charge signs Red car crossing into Central London traffic congestion zone Gower Street London England UK. Image shot 2014. Exact date unknown.
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2017
    fastFTMatthew Vincent
    Opening Quote: Uber hopes to carry on cabby-ing; Brits put price ahead of pampering
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2017
    FT AlphavilleSiona Jenkins
    Opening Quote: Uber hopes to carry on cabby-ing
  • Monday, 25 September, 2017
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Uber rival’s drivers are ‘workers’, employment tribunal rules

    Gig economy blow as verdict says Addison Lee owes holiday pay and minimum wage

    An Addison Lee courier pedals past an Addison Lee minicab in central London, Britain September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville
  • Monday, 18 September, 2017
    UK economy
    Uber’s London licence to soar from £3,000 to £3m

    Ride-hailing app hit as regulator overhauls fee it charges private hire operators

    FILE PHOTO: A photo illustration shows the Uber app logo displayed on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph in central London, Britain August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/Illustration/File Photo
  • Monday, 3 July, 2017
    Gig economy
    Minimum wage should be extended to cover self-employed

    Resolution Foundation makes proposal to Matthew Taylor, who is leading review

    HA6ME7 Food delivery driver working for both Uber Eats and Deliveroo, London
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2017
    Transport
    Uber faces paying £2.1m to operate in London under fee change

    Transport for London plans to raise operating licence fee from current level of £2,826

    A photo illustration shows the Uber app logo displayed on a mobile telephone, as it is held up for a posed photograph in central London, Britain October 28, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Illustration/Files
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2016
    Technology sector
    UK taxi app Karhoo ceases trading
  • Sunday, 22 May, 2016
    Transport
    Addison Lee drivers plan Mayfair protest

    Pay rates and contract changes at centre of dispute with private equity owners

    A pedestrian passes Addison Lee Plc minicabs in a parking lot in London, U.K., on Thursday, Jan. 3 2013. U.K. services unexpectedly shrank for the first time in two years in December, clouding the economic outlook as Britain struggles to avoid a triple-dip recession. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  • Sunday, 25 October, 2015
    US & Canadian companies
    Taxi groups unite to fight Uber with $250m start-up

    Karhoo signs up 200,000 cars as taxi operators push back against app challengers

    epa04944340 A picture made available on 23 September 2015 shows a view of Didi Kuaidi's smartphone app for customers shown on a mobile phone along a road in Beijing, China, 22 September 2015. With almost 20 million cars sold last year, China is the largest passenger cars market in the world and chronic traffic congestions in many of its cities like Beijing is one of the reasons why taxi and car hailing smartphone apps offered by Didi Kuaidi and Uber Technologies Inc. are widely popular with commuters. EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG
  • Sunday, 25 October, 2015
    US & Canadian companies
    Karhoo needs to make hoo-ha to rival Uber

    Taxi app signs up London and New York cabs, but funding is all

    Black cab drivers say a lack of regulation skews the market in favour of Uber
  • Friday, 16 October, 2015
    Disrupters
    Uber taxi-hailing app does not break UK law, court rules

    Judge says smartphone app used by drivers cannot be legally classed as a ‘taximeter’

    A user scans for an available vehicle using the Uber Technologies Inc.'s app on an Apple Inc. iPhone 6 smartphone in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Thursday, May 14, 2015. Data obtained by Bloomberg from Transport for London, the transit authority, show black-taxi license applications are down 20 percent so far this year, with the blame being laid squarely at Uber Technologies Inc.'s door. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 5 June, 2015
    Disrupters
    London considers options to tackle cab conundrum

    Capital considers ways to limit taxis and reduce emissions

    FT Magazine story; Addison Lee. Picture shows an Addison Lee taxi at work in central London.
  • Thursday, 28 May, 2015
    UK economy
    Addison Lee founder helped Conservatives build election war chest

    Donation of £660,000 given in March as London taxi battle was heating up

  • Friday, 22 May, 2015
    UK economy
    Addison Lee and Uber united against plans to cap private taxis

    Private taxi companies oppose London mayor Johnson’s plans to curb private cab numbers

    FT Magazine story; Addison Lee. Picture shows an Addison Lee taxi at work in central London.
  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2015
    Pollution
    Minicab boss gives red light to plan for emission-free London

    Addison Lee chief says the capital is not ready for electric taxi fleets

    FT Magazine story; Addison Lee. Picture shows an Addison Lee taxi at work in central London.
  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2015
    Disrupters
    Addison Lee takes on Uber for control of New York’s taxi market

    UK private hire group to battle smartphone app for control of Big Apple’s £2.2bn market

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