Business

The chief executive of the competition watchdog is preparing to step down next year, creating a further vacancy at the helm of one of...

Holiday bookings for the winter are already slowing due to “ongoing speculation around international travel”, operator Jet 2 said as it reported a big...

Top executives at financial firms could see their pay linked to progress on diversity under measures being discussed by UK regulators. In a joint...

Greensill Capital potentially broke the rules of the government’s coronavirus emergency loan schemes, lending hundreds of millions of pounds to Sanjeev Gupta’s business empire...

Vauxhall’s parent firm has revealed a new electric vehicle future for its Ellesmere Port plant, removing a years-long threat of closure from the factory....

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that people in England will no longer be instructed to work from home from later this month. The...

Boris Johnson has confirmed that England’s so-called “Freedom Day” – initially planned for 21 June – is likely to go ahead on Monday 19...

Shares in Morrisons surged by more than 11% at Monday’s market open as investors licked their lips at the prospect of a bidding war...

The financier spearheading a £300m takeover of Newcastle United has accused the Premier League of a “closely guarded lack of transparency” and of lacking...

Petrol is at its highest price for nearly eight years after eight consecutive months of increases at the pumps, figures from the RAC show....

Supermarket giant Morrisons has agreed a takeover offer from a consortium in a deal worth £6.3bn. The move follows the rejection of an earlier...

The future of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant is set to be secured through production of a new electric vehicle, with an announcement possible...

Robinhood, the online trading platform linked to an upsurge in armchair investors during the pandemic, has taken its first step towards floating on the...

Confectionery giant Haribo has warned a shortage of lorry drivers is causing difficulties getting its sweets to shops in the UK. The German firm,...

The announcement of a battery “gigafactory” in Sunderland is a significant moment on the road to electrifying the UK car fleet, a journey that...

Nissan is to announce details of a new battery ‘gigafactory’ that will enable its Sunderland car plant to massively increase production of electric vehicles....

A deal to avoid a ban on sausages and other chilled meats moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has been agreed at the...

Businesses will have to start paying part of the cost of furlough from tomorrow – even though many of them remain shut or operating...

Senior overseas business executives will no longer need to quarantine when arriving in England if their trip is likely to be of “significant economic...