Business

After more than a quarter of a century pouring Old Speckled Hen down the throats of British shoppers, Greene King has decided enough is enough. The Suffolk pub group has agreed to sell its best-known…

For an SME, the cruellest moment in any growth story is the one when a once-in-a-generation order lands on the desk, and the cash flow simply cannot stretch to fulfil it. That, until very recently,…

Standard Chartered has fired the latest, and loudest, warning shot in the City’s march towards an artificial intelligence-led workforce, confirming plans to shed almost 7,800 back-office roles by 2030 just as fresh figures show Britain’s…

Peter Kyle has issued a defiant message to the boardrooms of corporate Britain: the government’s long-awaited crackdown on late payments will not be diluted, no matter how loudly big business lobbies against it. In an…

Britain’s labour market has buckled under the twin weight of geopolitical turmoil and stubbornly high interest rates, with the unemployment rate climbing unexpectedly to 5 per cent and payrolls plunging by 100,000 in April, the…

Lloyds Banking Group is preparing to scrap the Halifax brand after 173 years on the high street, in what would amount to one of the most significant rebrands in British banking history. The FTSE 100…

An Isle of Man trading-education platform has won a two-year trade mark battle against TikTok’s UK arm, in a ruling small business advisers say sets a powerful precedent for founders facing legal pressure from global…

NatWest Group has thrown its weight behind the North of England, pledging £20 billion of funding over the next decade in what stands as one of the largest single regional commitments by a UK lender…

Britain’s reliance on bricks-and-mortar levies has reached a level unmatched anywhere else in the developed world, leaving businesses shouldering a disproportionate share of the burden and the Exchequer dangerously exposed to any wobble in commercial…

Britain’s artificial intelligence sector pulled in a record £8.3bn of investment last year, as global capital piled into a new generation of British AI companies and London tightened its grip as Europe’s pre-eminent technology hub.…