How I went from working at Nando’s to owning my own coffee business March 12, 2024 Wycliffe Sande spent seven years working a full-time job at Nando’s before (finally) turning his coffee roasting side hustle into a business. Now, the 40-year-old founder of Blue Turaco – a coffee brand with beans sourced directly from his home farmland in Uganda – smiles as he tells me the long days and sleepless nights [...]
Headlam: Flooring sales slump as Brits spend less on home improvements July 23, 2024 British flooring specialist Headlam has had a challenging six months as it says people are spending less on home improvement projects, driving a slump in its revenue.
Taylor Wimpey’s order book shrinks amid ‘value over volume’ approach April 23, 2024 Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has reported a smaller order book and fewer sales so far this year amid "market uncertainty and affordability challenges" as it looks to growth in 2025.
Election 2024: Labour hits back at Tory warnings of ‘permanent Labour government’ July 1, 2024 In a round of interviews this morning, Home Secretary James Cleverly warned against the “genuine risk” of a Labour government, marking a shift in Tory campaign tactics.
Bank of England to work more closely with regulator to promote key objectives December 19, 2023 "The shared aim of this MoU is to enable closer working between the parties, including the exchange of appropriate information, to assist them in discharging their statutory functions," the document said.
UK house price rises slow down in March as demand softens: Nationwide March 31, 2021 House price growth slowed down this month with prices going up by 5.7 per cent compared to March of last year, mortgage lender Nationwide said this morning. Last month, property prices rose by an annual 6.9 per cent, while house prices edged down by 0.2 per cent month-on-month in March. Across the UK, the average [...]
Debate: Are Zoom-free Fridays a good idea? June 8, 2021 Numerous firms are putting in places rules banning video calls on Friday afternoons, allowing staff time to crack on with off-video tasks and to break the monotony of call-after-call as we work from home. But are they a good idea? Abby Payne, Chief People Officer at Sailpoint, says YES. “Zoom fatigue is real. With so much [...]
Demand for UK business flights has fallen by nearly a third since 2019 May 20, 2024 Business travel demand has fallen by nearly a third in the UK since before the pandemic, according to new research from the New Economics Foundation.
Election 2024: Benefits ‘less dignified’ than work, Starmer toughens welfare line June 23, 2024 State handouts don’t deliver the “same sense of self-reliant dignity as a fair wage”, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he toughens his party’s line on welfare.
Square Mile and Me: Admiral CFO Geraint Jones on heading up the FTSE 100’s only Welsh company March 28, 2024 Geraint Jones, chief financial officer at Admiral Group, takes a trip down memory lane to tell us about his career, from exercise tech to insurance.