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04.01.2024 - 10:27
Business
Business Live
Dorset Chamber joins forces with new business partner
Dorset Chamber has announced an IT support and solutions specialist as its new Platinum Business Partner. Poole-based Enhanced will champion business in Dorset and help drive the chamber forward. The firm was founded in 1994 and has been a chamber member since 2007. Dorset Chamber chief executive Ian Girling said: “Enhanced is a forward-thinking business …
04.01.2024 - 10:21
Business
Sky News
Royal London plots bid for £6bn Scottish Widows book
Royal London, one of the UK’s biggest financial services mutuals, is plotting a bid for a £6bn bulk annuities portfolio being sold by Lloyds Banking Group.Sky News has learnt that Royal London, which called off a controversial merger with rival LV= – formerly Liverpool Victoria – in 2022, is in talks about a deal that …
04.01.2024 - 09:47
Business
Evening Standard
JD Sports hit as wary customers flock to sale prices
04.01.2024 - 09:42
Business
Sky News
UK services sector upbeat as activity picks up
The UK services sector has reported its fastest jump in activity for six months, as firms grow increasingly upbeat about the year ahead.Closely-watched survey the S&P Global/CIPS UK Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) found output and new work increased for second month running in December and at the strongest rate for half a year. The …
04.01.2024 - 07:06
Business
Sky News
Next raises profit forecast but warns stock could be delayed by Red Sea attacks
Next has raised its profit forecast for the fifth time in less than a year after reporting better-than-expected sales in the run-up to Christmas.The high street retailer said full-price sales were up 5.7% in the nine weeks to 30 December compared to last year. The figure, revealed in a trading update from the firm on …
04.01.2024 - 05:15
Business
Sky News
‘Obscene pay inequality’: FTSE 100 bosses earn typical UK annual salary in three days – thinktank
By 1pm this afternoon, just a few days into the new year, FTSE 100 bosses will have earned more than the typical UK worker makes in a year, according to new estimates.The median pay – the midpoint between the lowest and highest pay – for a FTSE 100 boss stood at £3.81m (excluding pensions) in …
04.01.2024 - 05:00
Business
Euro News
Where in Europe will the property market revive in 2024?
04.01.2024 - 00:02
Business
Sky News
Buy British push: Labelling for food imports not meeting UK welfare standards
Imported foods may be labelled when they do not meet welfare standards, as the government considers measures to help shoppers “buy British”.Environment Secretary Steve Barclay is set to announce plans to change labelling on goods to clarify if it is produced to the highest standards, as part of sweeping reform to support farmers. Mr Barclay …
03.01.2024 - 16:47
Business
Euro News
Financial crime compliance: Trends to watch in 2024
03.01.2024 - 13:36
Business
Euro News
Greece hailed again as global economic ‘country of the year’
03.01.2024 - 13:24
Business
Sky News
Woolworths demise 15 years on: What happened and could it come back?
Parachuted in to turn around a failing giant of the British high street, Robert McDonald was part of Woolworths’s last roll of the dice.The new finance director said he was excited to join an “iconic” brand when he began work in early November 2008, but just three weeks later the company would sink into administration. …
03.01.2024 - 11:50
Business
Sky News
Tube strikes: Full list of dates in January 2024 and how London Underground is affected
Tube strikes will affect commuters over several days from 7 January as London Underground workers walk out over pay.A strike by Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members is set to cause heavy disruption to Tube services until 12 January. Union members from various departments of London Underground will strike on different days, meaning there …
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