Things are looking up for Apple, in one sense at least, even though it is still awaiting the completion of its new British headquarters.
The world’s first trillion-dollar company has agreed to lease about 100,000 sq ft at 22 Bishopsgate, a 62-storey skyscraper that will be the tallest building in the City, the capital’s financial district, when it is finished next year.
The agreement comes a year after The Times revealed that Apple had begun to make contingency plans in case of delays to the construction of its planned headquarters at the redeveloped Battersea Power Station.
The iPhone maker announced plans three years ago to move about 1,400 staff from eight sites in London to an Apple campus, taking up 500,000 sq ft and all