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Made.com raises prices after being hit by soaring shipping and trucking costs
Online furniture designer Made.com has warned it is being hit by soaring trucking and shipping costs and has begun to pass on some of the burden to customers by raising prices.CEO Philippe Chainieux told the Standard freight cost has multiplied six or seven times since the beginning of 2021. “That is incredibly difficult to mitigate,” …
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Business Live
Free HGV training provider ‘inundated’ with applications amid driver shortage
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Evening Standard
Pay jumps and job vacancies top 1 million in post-pandemic boom
The scope of the skills crisis facing UK business was laid bare today when figures showed pay is soaring and job vacancies rising above a million.Figures from the Office for National Statistics show unemployment falling slightly to 4.6%, with the number of people in employment back to pre-pandemic levels.Pay is rising at 8.3% as businesses …
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Evening Standard
Domino’s returns cash to shareholders as pizza firm sees soaring profits
Domino‘s Pizza Group has completed the first chunk of its £80 million share buyback programme as the takeaway giant hands cash to shareholders on the back of soaring profits.The UK arm of the pizza giant saw post-tax profits more than double to £41.3 million in the first half, which the firm put down in part …
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Evening Standard
City broker Peel Hunt to float in £300 million deal
Peel Hunt, the small and mid-cap City broker, is to list on the stock market in a deal that could value the business at £300 million.A pandemic-led boom in activity has seen brokers thrive as clients sought advice, funds and access to the stock market.Peel Hunt, founded in 1989 by Charles Peel and Christopher Holdsworth …
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Business Weekly
Acquisitions on the cards after US firm buys Goodfellow
Battery Ventures, a global, technology-focused investment firm anchored in Boston US, has acquired Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd – a specialist supplier of high-quality materials for research & development, prototyping and specialised manufacturing. No figures are being disclosed. Headquartered in Huntingdon, Goodfellow has subsidiaries in China, France, Germany and the US serving a global customer base.  Customers …
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Sky News
UK delays implementing post-Brexit border controls on agri-food imports from EU
The UK has further delayed implementing post-Brexit border controls on agri-food imports from the EU, blaming the pandemic for disrupting global supply chains.A raft of Brexit changes to requirements for agricultural and food goods coming into the UK from the EU was due to come in from 1 October this year, or 1 January 2022. …
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Euro News
Apple iPhone iOS 14.8 patches security exploit used by Pegasus spyware
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Sky News
Number of employees on UK payrolls returns to pre-pandemic levels
The number of employees on UK payrolls recovered to pre-pandemic levels last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.A rise of 241,000 in August took the total number to 29.1 million, around the same level as in February 2020. The ONS also said the number of job vacancies in the June-August period climbed to …
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Sky News
Number of UK job vacancies rise above one million in new record high
The number of employees on UK payrolls recovered to pre-pandemic levels last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.A rise of 241,000 in August took the total number to 29.1 million, around the same level as in February 2020. The ONS also said the number of job vacancies in the June-August period climbed to …
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Euro News
Switzerland to get new digital stock exchange, clearing the way for crypto trading and NFTs
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Evening Standard
James Bond fans snap up No Time To Die tickets within minutes of release, boosting cinema chain hopes
James Bond fans rushed to buy tickets to see Daniel Craig‘s final outing as 007 on their release on Monday, in a welcome sign for hard-hit cinema operators after over a year of pain. International chain Vue has over 870 screens in the UK. Bosses told the Standard they saw eager fans snap up their …

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