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06.01.2023 - 10:14
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Business Live
Owners of The Salty Dog in Bangor, Co Down, to pass business to new family after 12 years
The owners of a popular hotel and restaurant in Co Down have announced they will be stepping down after 12 years and handing the reins over to a new family. The Sharp family, who own The Salty Dog Hotel and Bistro, made the announcement on social media on Wednesday. They said: “It has been an …
06.01.2023 - 10:07
Business
Business Live
Topps Tiles board vows to fight off shareholder bid to oust chairman and take greater control of business
Management at Topps Tiles say they are fighting off a bid by its biggest shareholder to take greater control of the business. Austrian investment firm MS Galleon GmbH wants to remove chairman Darren Shapland and bring in two members of its own team as non-executive directors. The changes have been put forward as resolutions at …
06.01.2023 - 09:18
Business
Evening Standard
Holiday firms expect ‘Sunshine Saturday’ bookings to return to pre-Covid levels
Holiday companies expect bookings to reach or even exceed pre-coronavirus levels on Saturday.The first Saturday of the year is known as Sunshine Saturday by the travel industry as it is typically the most popular day to book a foreign trip.Trade association ABTA said tour operators and travel agents expect this Saturday will be “one of …
06.01.2023 - 08:06
Business
Evening Standard
Frasers Group reduces stake in Hugo Boss after share price jumps
The owner of Sports Direct and House of Fraser has reduced its stake in Hugo Boss after previously upping its investment into the luxury fashion house.Frasers Group said it now owns 3.9% of Hugo Boss’s total share capital, a decline from the 4.3% that it previously owned.The retail empire, headed up by billionaire entrepreneur Mike Ashley, …
06.01.2023 - 07:54
Business
Evening Standard
Shell to pay £1.7bn in UK and EU windfall taxes for past quarter
Shell has revealed it will pay around two billion dollars (£1.7 billion) in UK and EU windfall taxes for the latest quarter.It comes after bosses at the London-listed oil giant said in October they had not paid any UK windfall taxes due to heavy investment in the North Sea.The firm told investors on Friday that …
06.01.2023 - 07:17
Business
Sky News
Shell to be hit by nearly £2bn in UK and EU windfall taxes
Windfall tax payments are to hit Shell by around $2bn (£1.7bn), the oil and gas company has estimated.The cost of the UK’s energy profits levy and the EU’s recently announced solidarity contribution will reach $2bn (£1.7bn) in tax liabilities in the final three months of its financial year, the firm said in a fourth quarter …
06.01.2023 - 06:55
Business
Sky News
House prices fall for fourth month in row
House prices have dropped for the fourth month in a row as cost of living pressures and higher borrowing costs dampen demand. The average house price fell to £281,272 in December, according to data from Halifax. It was a 1.5% decrease from November prices, which had already fallen more than 2%, representing the fastest decrease …
06.01.2023 - 02:18
Business
Sky News
Rail passengers face fourth day of disruption due to strikes – with deadlock still unbroken
Rail passengers are facing a fourth day of travel disruption as thousands of workers continue to strike over jobs, pay and conditions. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail and 14 other train operators will walk out on Friday in action that is set to last 48 hours. Only around …
06.01.2023 - 00:01
Business
Evening Standard
2022 ‘second greenest year on record’ for Britain’s electricity grid
The electricity produced in Britain was close to the greenest it has ever been last year, second only to the pandemic, when demand was lower than usual.New data from the grid operator showed that in 2022 Britain had the greenest day and month on record, and wind power hit new highs.For every unit of electricity …
06.01.2023 - 00:01
Business
Evening Standard
December shopper footfall reaches highest level since start of pandemic
Shopper footfall reached its highest level since the start of the pandemic in December to cap off an otherwise “exceptionally difficult” year for retailers and consumers.Total UK footfall was down 7.3% in December on 2019 pre-pandemic levels, six percentage points better than November and better than the three-month average decline of 10.2%, according to British Retail …
05.01.2023 - 16:38
Business
Sky News
A glitch and new red tape leave UK exporters facing EU border disruption
Hauliers exporting goods to the European Union have faced fresh disruption since the turn of the year as a glitch in the UK’s digital customs system and new demands from French authorities threaten delays.Drivers heading to ports in the first few days of January found they were unable to enter details of shipments in the …
05.01.2023 - 14:27
Business
Sky News
New strike laws to ‘ensure basic level of service’ in public sector confirmed by government
The government is bringing forward new strike laws to “maintain a basic function and deliver minimum safety levels” in the public sector during industrial action, the business department has confirmed.In a statement, it said the government would “always protect the ability to strike”, but added: “It must be balanced with the public’s right to life …
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