Business

Asda’s chairman has said supermarkets are owed a “debt of gratitude” as he dismissed talk of capping prices as “rather backward looking”. Stuart Rose’s...

The board of the CBI has drafted in lawyers to prepare for a prospective insolvency filing ahead of a crunch vote by thousands of its members...

Asda Group has said it will acquire petrol station operator EG Group’s UK and Ireland business, creating a company with combined revenues of nearly...

Food inflation in the UK has slowed from April’s record-breaking rise – but is still up more than 15% on the year, new retail...

Only a third of UK hospitality businesses are optimistic about their future due to high energy prices and rising food costs, industry bosses have...

HSBC will next month unveil a new name for the technology-focused bank it rescued earlier this year after its US parent collapsed. Sky News...

The Ineos billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe remains the leading candidate to buy Manchester United Football Club despite an inconclusive board meeting held late last...

The executive who presided over a bitter “cruises and cufflinks” row at one of Britain’s biggest wealth managers is preparing to step down. Sky...

Jeremy Hunt has told Sky News he is comfortable with Britain being plunged into recession if that’s what it takes to bring down inflation....

Britain is determined to compete in the global race for green investment, the chancellor has told Sky News, days before the expected announcement that...

The owners of Asda and petrol stations giant EG Group were on Thursday applying the finishing touches to a £10bn merger of their operations...

The chancellor has said he “is willing to do what it takes” and increase support for households if energy bills rise again this autumn....

A water company has said it will pay £10 to each of its customers after it under-reported leakages. Welsh Water says every customer will...

Scores of blue-chip companies which have suspended their membership of the CBI will be allowed to vote on the business lobby group’s future at...

The energy price cap on household bills has fallen to an annual average of £2,074 between July and September, removing some of the financial...

The owner of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook has been slapped with a record fine of €1.2bn (£1.04bn) by the Irish data protection regulator. It...

The government has sold £1.2bn of NatWest shares, reducing its ownership of the bailed out bank by nearly 3%. The state now holds a...

Ryanair has bounced back to a near-record profit fuelled by a record number of passengers. Profits reached €1.4bn (£1.2bn) for the 12 months to...

Meta is expected to face a record fine later over its transfer of Facebook’s European user data to US servers, according to reports. Reuters...