Business

The energy watchdog has moved to reassure customers of two failed household suppliers as wholesale prices hit record levels, threatening a leap in bills...

Two-thirds of travel sector employers with staff still on the furlough scheme are planning redundancies once the wage support is removed at the end...

Primark has revealed it suffered a “pingdemic” sales slump over the summer – and is now facing supply chain delays for its autumn and...

Boris Johnson is being urged to “level up” Britain by backing pay rises for workers, scrapping his proposed cut in Universal Credit and tackling...

One of Britain’s oldest bicycle manufacturers is being put up for sale amid a continuing surge in consumer interest in cycling. Sky News has...

Up to 660,000 jobs – many in the UK’s industrial heartlands – are at risk unless Boris Johnson speeds up green investment and moving...

The former auditor of Patisserie Valerie is facing a multimillion pound fine nearly three years after the cafe chain collapsed in one of Britain’s...

HGV driving tests will be relaxed to allow 50,000 more to be taken in an attempt to tackle the shortage of lorry drivers ahead...

Shoppers face permanent food shortages with the days of being able to get almost any item off the supermarket shelf over, a trade body...

Tens of thousands of businesses across the UK have called on Parliament to tackle soaring card fees which amounted to £46 per household last...

Morrisons has warned it expects “industry-wide” price rises ahead and revealed some product shortages while reporting half-year results showing a 43% slump in profits....

Britain’s economic recovery is expected to slow over coming months thanks to staff shortages and supply chain disruption, according to a new forecast from...

Halfords has become the latest big name company to report a hit to sales from supply chain disruption, warning its struggles may take time...

Sir Martin Sorrell’s construction of a second global marketing services empire will take another step forward on Wednesday with the acquisition of a Los...

National Insurance contributions will rise by 1.25% to pay for the social care system in England in a bid to end the “unpredictable and...

Restaurant spending edged higher for the first time since the start of the pandemic in August according data from Barclaycard pointing to a bumper...

A leading business lobby group has warned the government that the crisis resulting from the shortage of workers in key jobs could take up...

Luke Johnson, one of Britain’s best-known leisure entrepreneurs, is adding to his collection of e-commerce businesses by snapping up a leading online retailer of...

Almost 50 stores per day closed down across the UK during the first half of the year, research suggests. Some 8,739 outlets went out...