Business

Shop prices will rise in 2025 as the key Christmas trading period failed to meet retailers’ expectations, according to industry data. Shop sales grew...

Here’s a quiz question: how much would you say the supply of non-Russian gas to Europe (including the UK) has gone up since the...

More than half of private sector firms are planning price hikes to help offset looming tax increases announced in the chancellor’s first budget ,...

A television network majority-owned by David Montgomery, the media entrepreneur, is to snap up the licence to operate a London-focused TV station from Lord...

Outside it is the bleak midwinter. We are smack bang in the middle of some of the country’s best agricultural land. But inside the...

The owners of Shawbrook Group, the mid-sized British lender, are drawing up plans to kickstart London’s moribund listings arena with a stock market flotation,...

Donald Trump has said the UK is making “a very big mistake” in its fossil fuel policy – and should “get rid of windmills”....

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...