Business

One in seven people (15%) have skipped meals amid the rising cost of living – up from one in eight (12%) three months ago,...

The director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Tony Danker has stepped aside from the role while the business lobby group investigates...

Grant Shapps is facing fresh calls to overhaul the energy regulator’s powers amid growing fears for hospitality businesses’ ability to withstand soaring power costs....

Hundreds of thousands of the UK’s smallest businesses risk going under this year as costs keep rising, a report has revealed. The owners of...

Foxtons Group, the listed estate agency chain, is snapping up a London-based rival as it continues its assault on the capital’s lettings market. Sky...

Gousto, the food delivery service backed by Joe Wicks, the celebrity fitness instructor, has become embroiled in a bitter corporate governance row after excluding...

An arm of the Wall Street behemoth Goldman Sachs is among the suitors hoping to take a mouthful of Subway, the global sandwich chain...

A London-listed company with a valuation of close to £1bn is preparing to list its shares in the US amid an intensifying debate about...

Support for energy bills from the government is expected to continue for three months from April, protecting consumers from an average increase of £500....

A major Cambridge-based microchip designer has decided not to list on the London Stock Exchange, despite lobbying from three UK prime ministers. Arm, the...

Energy suppliers have been asked to prepare for government support to households to be maintained at the current level in April, ahead of a...

More than three in four mothers (76%) who pay for childcare say it no longer makes financial sense for them to work, a survey...

Shop staff at Pret a Manger are to receive their third pay rise in a year. The average pay base will have increased by...

The American company behind brands such as Reebok and Ted Baker is among the suitors weighing bids for Hunter Boot, the royal warrant-holding footwear...

WH Smith has said it has been the target of a cyber attack that has seen hackers access company data. The high street retailer...

Interest rates may rise less than previously thought with the governor of the Bank of England signalling there is no urgent need for hikes....

House prices have fallen for the sixth month in a row and dropped 1.1% in the year up to last month, according to one...

A further 2,000 pubs are at risk of closure, threatening 25,000 jobs, unless the chancellor comes to the sector’s aid in this month’s budget,...

Household bills could rise if the government further delays its plan to rid the power network of polluting fossil fuels by 2035, the National...