Business

Britain’s biggest business organisations have closed ranks against a wave of antisemitism sweeping the country, with 40 trade bodies and employer groups signing a joint letter pledging to root out anti-Jewish prejudice from the nation’s…

The billionaire chairman of JCB has warned that ministers risk provoking a public revolt over Britain’s spiralling £333.7 billion welfare bill, accusing Westminster of “conning” taxpayers by allowing some claimants to pocket as much as…

Ministers have set the high street banks on notice. The Treasury has commissioned an independent review into the impact of more than 6,700 bank branch closures across the UK, and has signalled it is prepared…

For most small and medium-sized British exporters, the painful moment is rarely the order itself. It is the phone call a few days later, when the bank politely points out that the working capital required…

The 150-year-old British sweeteners and ingredients group Tate & Lyle has confirmed it is in advanced discussions with the American food science giant Ingredion over a possible £2.7 billion cash takeover, a move that, if…

Lidl GB has thrown its weight behind one of the most ambitious surplus food redistribution trials yet seen on the British high street, drafting in the consumer food-sharing app Olio alongside its long-standing charity partner…

A swelling queue of British exporters hoping to recoup money lost to Donald Trump’s now-discredited emergency tariffs may discover that they are entitled to precisely nothing, the audit, tax and business advisory firm Blick Rothenberg…

For Fiona McCoss, business is not about hustle culture or rigid corporate structures, it’s about creating sustainable success through intuition, connection, and embodied leadership. As founder of Wild Feminine Retreats and creator of the Wild…

In a move that has set the M&A community talking on both sides of the Atlantic, eBay has firmly slammed the door on a $55.5bn (£40.9bn) unsolicited takeover approach from American video games retailer GameStop,…

National Grid has unveiled what amounts to the most ambitious capital programme in its history, pledging a further £70bn over the next five years to rewire the energy systems of Britain and the north-eastern United…