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‘You can’t speed up reputation’ business leaders share their scale-up secrets
Watch the live panel debate here Throughout the month and in partnership with Memery Crystal, Business Leader will be focusing on Scale-ups – which has seen us partner with...
Google for Startups UK decides to close London Campus
Google for Startups UK has announced that it has decided close its London Campus – and will move its services online. The decision could have been primarily driven by the...
Supermarket giant Morrisons rejects £5.5bn takeover bid from US private equity firm
Morrisons has rejected a £5.5bn takeover bid from US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). Following this announcement, CD&R has until 17 July to place another formal bid....
Britain launches negotiations with £9tn Pacific free trade area
Britain will today launch negotiations with 11 countries belonging to a £9tn free trade area. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is home to 500 million people...
Equity investment in smaller UK businesses reached a record £8.8bn last year
Equity investment in the UK’s smaller businesses increased by 9% in 2020 to £8.8bn, the highest amount since the Beauhurst data series began in 2011, reveals the British Business Bank’s...
Tech hiring at its highest level for five years with over 100,000 job vacancies per week in growing digital sector
Hiring for the digital tech sector has surged past pre-pandemic levels with 132,000 tech vacancies recorded in one week in May, according to data compiled by job search engine Adzuna...
Global professional services giant tells staff they can work from home forever
Global professional services firm Deloitte have told its 20,000-plus staff that once the pandemic is over, they can choose when, where and how they work in the future. Deloitte’s CEO,...
UK remains Europe’s most attractive destination for financial services investment
The UK continues to be Europe’s most attractive location for international investment into financial services, according to EY’s latest UK Attractiveness Survey for Financial Services, attracting 56 projects in 2020....
Retail sales fall 1.4% between April and May as lockdown eases
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) retail sales volumes fell by 1.4% in May 2021, compared to April 2021, primarily driven by food store volumes, which fell 5.7%...
Tesco reports rise in Q1 sales to £12.4bn
UK supermarket giant Tesco has today reported a 1.3% year-on-year increas in Q1 sales to more than £12.4bn. This was helped by a significant growth in online demand, with over...
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