Greggs reports bumper sales growth as consumers snap up iced drinks May 14, 2024 Greggs has continued to grow in the first few months of 2024.
Pandemic passport chaos: Millions put summer plans on hold amid ‘virtually unprecedented’ backlog to meet post-Brexit target April 26, 2022 A “virtually unprecedented” surge in applications for passports after the pandemic has put millions of people’s summer holiday plans in the balance. The country has been urged to get new applications in as “quickly as possible” to meet post-Brexit rules about passport validation, requiring at least three months remaining before being able to renew. This [...]
UK fails to define clear data reform strategy despite claiming EU complexity departure May 10, 2022 In an attempt to cut European Union red tape once and for all, the government are pushing forward with its Data Reform Bill.
Bosses at UK arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom seek to buy it out as insolvency looms March 22, 2022 Bosses at the UK arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom have made a bid to buy it out, as sanctions against its parent company threaten to make it insolvent. Manchester-based Gazprom Energy, which supplies more than a fifth of gas used by UK companies, has been left just days from needing a government bailout through [...]
Food shortage: Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Lidl and Morrisons warn salad will not be on the menu for ‘a few weeks’ March 1, 2023 Brits are being advised to avoid salads for the next “few weeks” as supermarkets have kept restrictions in place on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce. Reports of adverse weather conditions in the Mediterranean has forced Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl into restricting the sale of produce. This comes after social media users took to [...]
Exclusive: Closing the gap between stakeholder expectations and corporate behaviour November 13, 2022 City A.M. revealed two weeks ago that six firms agreed to merge into a new stakeholder solutions entity that is backed by Falfurrias Capital Partners. The relatively unusual merger, given that six separate firms managed to reach a merger deal, involved Ballast Research, Hamilton Place Strategies, Flag Media Analytics, alva, Gotham Research Group, and Decode_M. The [...]
McDonald’s boss fired for relationship with employee November 4, 2019 The chief executive of McDonald’s has been fired for violating a company policy by dating an employee. British-born boss Steve Easterbrook has left the fast food chain after demonstrating “poor judgement”, McDonald’s said on Sunday. Read more: McDonald’s misses estimates in latest quarterly earnings In an email to staff, Easterbrook acknowledged he had struck up [...]
Saudi-owned Champions League, obesity crisis and EU wealth tax: Danish bank’s ‘outrageous’ 2024 predictions December 5, 2023 Saxo Bank has published the latest in an annual series of "outrageous predictions" for next year, including a global Champions League owned by Saudi Arabia, a health crisis triggered by obesity drugs and a two per cent EU wealth tax.
Maersk to stop buying Russian oil to fuel vessels March 15, 2022 Maersk has stopped buying Russian oil for its cargo fleet following the country's invasion of Ukraine, revealed the company's chairman.
Tory MP criticised after saying conviction of colleague for sexual assault on teenager was a ‘dreadful miscarriage of justice’ April 12, 2022 The Conservatives have reacted furiously after a former government minister branded the conviction of an MP for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, a “dreadful miscarriage of justice”. Crispin Blunt MP caused outrage with a statement saying he was “utterly appalled and distraught” by the conviction by jury of his “friend and colleague” Imran Khan. Khan, [...]