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11.01.2023 - 13:20
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Sky News
Profit warnings at recruitment firms show unemployment is likely to rise
With recessions expected in many parts of the world during 2023, it is highly likely that unemployment will rise in a number of economies this year.Supporting that argument are twin profits warnings during the last 48 hours from two of the UK stock market’s best-known recruitment firms, Robert Walters and Pagegroup. Tuesday saw Robert Walters, …
11.01.2023 - 11:32
Business
Sky News
Paperchase sale on the cards again just four months after takeover
Paperchase, the high street cards and stationery retailer, has been put up for sale just four months after its latest change of ownership.Sky News has learned that the chain, which was taken over in August by Steve Curtis, an experienced retail investor, is being auctioned by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the accountancy firm. Mr Curtis, who led …
11.01.2023 - 11:22
Business
Sky News
What is Davos and what happens at the World Economic Forum meeting?
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting – more commonly known as Davos – takes place in January, with business and world leaders gathering this year for discussions on the 2023 theme of “cooperation in a fragmented world”.Here’s everything you need to know. What is Davos?Davos is the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). …
11.01.2023 - 10:30
Business
Business Live
Asian robotics manufacturer launches UK HQ
A manufacturer of robotics headquartered in China has opened a new UK head office in Birmingham. Quicktron has launched the 1,000 sq ft operation at the iCentrum building on Bruntwood SciTech’s Innovation Birmingham campus in the city centre. Founded in 2014, the company specialises in so-called intralogistics automation, designing and building robotic products which move …
11.01.2023 - 10:11
Business
Business Live
Jobs saved after opticians sold out of administration in pre-pack deal
Jobs have been saved following a merger of two well-known high street opticians in Wales. Julian Davies Opticians has agreed a prep-pack administration deal to rescue Bateman Opticians saving 19 jobs. Bateman Opticians, which has four practices in Cardiff, Newport and Blackwood, had been placed into administration and facing closure. The rescue package sees the …
11.01.2023 - 10:07
Business
Business Live
Topps Tiles says sales up as it deals with boardroom battle
Management at Topps Tiles said sales were up 10 per cent in the last three months of 2022. Half of the growth, it said, was down to the acquisition of Midlands-based online retailer Pro Tiler Tools back in October. It comes as Topps – which is headquartered in Leicestershire, and has sales of around £250 …
11.01.2023 - 10:00
Business
Business Live
Mining firm Cornish Metals makes discovery while drilling at South Crofty in Cornwall
Mining company Cornish Metals has found new high-grade tin while drilling at its mine in Cornwall. The AIM-listed firm said it made the discovery while carrying out work at the southern boundary of the South Crofty mine in the Duchy. The spot, called the ‘Wide Formation’, is an extension of the Great Flat Lode – …
11.01.2023 - 09:56
Business
Evening Standard
Rail dispute ‘further away’ from being resolved, union leader warns
A union leader has warned that the bitter strike on the railways is further away from being resolved than when it started last year.Mick Whelan, general secretary of the Aslef train drivers’ union, was asked by the Transport Select Committee to say how close, on a scale of one to 10, the situation was to …
11.01.2023 - 09:52
Business
Evening Standard
Bumper Xmas for Sainsbury as shoppers cut loose
J Sainsbury today insisted it was fending off the competitive threat from Lidl and taking market share from more traditional rivals such as Morrisons.The grocer and its sister company Argos had a strong Christmas as customers made the best of the first festive season free of Covid restrictions for several years.Sales of champagne and prosecco …
11.01.2023 - 09:51
Business
Evening Standard
We will not submit evidence to pay review body during disputes – health unions
Health unions will not be submitting evidence to the NHS pay review body for the next wage round while the current industrial disputes remain unresolved, it has been announced.The 14 unions, representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other NHS workers in England, have called for direct pay talks …
11.01.2023 - 09:44
Business
Evening Standard
JD Sports profits to top £1bn thanks to Nike Air Force One shoes
PROFITS at JD Sports will top £1 billion this year, as chief executive Régis Schultz shrugged off negative chatter about the state of the UK economy and insisted the company’s own growth potential remains huge.JD Sports has grown from a penny stock into a £7 billion FTSE 100 giant, in defiance of critics who once …
11.01.2023 - 09:42
Business
Business Live
Wales Fast Growth 50 project is going UK-wide
A project that annually showcases the fastest growing indigenous firms in the Welsh economy is going UK-wide. The Wales Fast Growth 50, which in partnership with the Western Mail has since 1999 ranked the 50 fastest growing firms in Wales on revenue growth over the previous two years, will this year also have lists for …
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