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12.01.2022 - 09:48
Business
Business Live
ADVERTORIAL: Start your own business with free help and funding from this new scheme
Have you ever considered starting up your own business? If so, you’ve probably spent time thinking about the amount of funding and support that you’ll need to turn that business idea into an innovative product or service. However, thanks to this brand new scheme based in Rhondda Cynon Taff, it’s now easier than ever to …
12.01.2022 - 09:44
Business
Evening Standard
Christmas cheer for the High Street as Brits splashed out
THERE was an injection of Christmas hope for the high street today when three top retailers reported strong results as pandemic-weary Brits treated themselves over the festive season.Sainsbury’s bumped up profit forecasts for the year by fully £60 million to £720 million as working from home increased eating from home, with customers splashing out on …
12.01.2022 - 09:30
Business
Business Live
Digital challenger Tandem Bank to acquire consumer lender Oplo
A digital challenger bank has agreed to acquire consumer lender Oplo to create a 500-strong group with more than 171,000 customers. Tandem Bank is to snap up the Blackpool-headquartered company which was launched in 2009 by Alex Mollart. When the deal completes, which is expected to be at the end of January, the combined business …
12.01.2022 - 09:30
Business
Business Live
Emersons Green nursery and preschool opens following £800k investment
A new nursery has opened in Emersons Green in South Gloucestershire following an £800,000 investment by its owners. The Midcounties Co-operative, one of the largest independent cooperatives in the country, has officially opened the doors of its latest Little Pioneers preschool within its childcare management division, Co-op Childcare. The nursery, located on Fieldfare off Folly …
12.01.2022 - 09:12
Business
Evening Standard
Sainsbury profits to jump after bumper Christmas
Sainsbury today celebrated a strong Christmas, as customers treated themselves to party food and champagne.Online sales doubled compared to pre-pandemic two years ago and clothing sales were up 38% on the same basis in the 16 weeks to January 8.That allows the grocer to bump up profit forecasts for the year by £60 million to …
12.01.2022 - 06:50
Business
Sky News
Sainsbury’s upgrades profit guidance despite fall in Christmas sales
One of the biggest names in UK retail has raised its annual profit expectations despite a fall in sales during its core Christmas trading period.Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain by market share, reported grocery-led sales growth for the festive season covering the six weeks to 8 January – when compared to the same pre-pandemic …
11.01.2022 - 23:27
Business
Business Weekly
Arm says growth threatened by opposition to NVIDIA takeover
Cambridge superchip architect Arm has warned the UK government that rejecting NVIDIA’s multi billion dollar bid for the enterprise could cripple the business and stifle both its ability to invest in growth and the health of the local and national economies. CEO Simon Segars says Arm has ruled out the alternative strategy of an IPO …
11.01.2022 - 21:22
Business
Sky News
Cost of living surge sees households’ financial wellbeing squeezed
UK households have experienced the biggest slump in their financial wellbeing as a surge in the cost of living takes its toll, a new survey suggests.A quarterly household finance index compiled by Scottish Widows fell to 40.1 in the final quarter of last year, down from 44.0 in the third quarter. It was the biggest …
11.01.2022 - 16:15
Business
Sky News
Onions that can be chopped without causing tears to go on sale in UK
Waitrose says it will become the first UK retailer to sell tearless onions.“Sunions”, which have been available in the US since 2018, are said to be a sweet variety of the vegetable that “doesn’t reduce cooks to tears”. Grown in Spain, they will retail at £1.50 for a three-pack when they go on sale online …
11.01.2022 - 15:04
Business
Sky News
‘Super app’ Bolt is now worth more than £6bn – and its founder says it’s going faster than the competition
One of the big finance themes of 2021 was the huge amount of money poured into tech companies by the venture capital sector – and, to judge from fund-raisings already this year, 2022 looks like being no different.Today brought one of the most eye-catching fund-raisings in recent months with news that Bolt, the Estonian business …
11.01.2022 - 14:30
Business
Sky News
Buyout giants Bain and CVC join forces to mount bid for Boots
Two of the world’s biggest buyout firms have joined forces to pursue a multibillion pound takeover of Boots, Britain’s largest high street chain of chemists.Sky News has learnt that Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners are assembling a joint bid for the retail behemoth, which trades from more than 2,000 stores and employs over 50,000 …
11.01.2022 - 14:09
Business
Evening Standard
Back to the classroom for entrepreneurs who want to change London tech
London’s tech investors have been sitting pretty in the last couple of years, raising record amounts of capital and watching their investments – including companies based in the capital like Revolut, Checkout.com and Gousto – reach unicorn status in record time.The capital’s tech companies raised £18bn out of a total £29.4bn across the whole of …
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