Business

Tide, the business banking services platform, has hired advisers to orchestrate a fresh share sale as it pursues rapid growth in the UK and...

An outsourcing group backed by Lord Hammond, the former chancellor of the exchequer, is among the suitors circling Telent, a major provider of digital...

The Post Office is proposing a big hike in the fees that banks pay to allow their customers to access its network as it...

UK business goes into the new year in a surly mood. New Chancellor Rachel Reeves‘s hike in employer’s National Insurance contributions (NICs) in her...

A committee of MPs has called for the government to be fined if it fails to provide redress quickly enough to victims of the...

What a year 2024 was. A massive election – well, two massive elections on either side of the Atlantic, and more elsewhere around the...

The operator of nearly 150 Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK is in advanced talks with potential buyers as it races to wrap up...

Almost 170,000 retail workers lost their jobs this year after the collapse of major high street chains, according to data. It is the highest...

Manchester United Football Club is to cut the funding it provides to its charitable arm as part of a purge of costs being overseen...

Sir Keir Starmer has ordered Britain’s key watchdogs to remove barriers to growth in a bid to kickstart Britain’s sluggish economy. Sky News has...

Searchlight Capital Partners, the private equity firm which has backed companies including Secret Escapes, is to lead a new funding package for Wefox, the...

Many months before farmers found themselves on the front pages of newspapers, after protesting in Whitehall against the new government’s inheritance tax rules, we...

The rugged mountains, limestone caves and spectacular waterfalls of Bannau Brycheiniog – the Brecon Beacons – attract visitors from all over the world. Tourism...

An Oxford University spinout which is developing a new generation of weed-resistant herbicides has begun planting a $40m (£32m) fundraising with prospective backers. Sky...

The cost of living crisis has “boosted” the secondhand industry, Sky News has been told, as more than £2bn is spent on pre-loved gifts...

Cadbury says it is “disappointed” after losing its royal warrant after 170 years. The chocolate maker behind festive favourites such as Heroes and Dairy...

Aviva has agreed a deal to buy rival company Direct Line for £3.7bn ahead of a Christmas Day deadline. The insurance firm announced the...

Japanese car giants, Honda and Nissan, have announced plans to merge. That would make them the third largest car maker by sales, behind Toyota...

The UK economy showed no growth in the last quarter, according to the revised figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The previous...