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Plus, Revolut wooed by UK gov, Starbucks' new CEO's eye watering compensation package revealed and how to take your team on a workcation
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Crittall Windows: The evolution of an iconic brand
Managing director of renowned window brand Crittall Windows talks about running a company with a 200-year legacy and how to transform working culture and practices
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Wage growth slows as the jobs market “cools” and the impact of day one unfair dismissal rights
Plus, why AI-labelled products can scare away customers, the Yorkshire tech revolution and an advertising ban business leaders need to take note of
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The company that turned a milk round into a £250m business
Plus, OpenAI testing AI-powered search feature, THG slashing more jobs, UK drivers still paying too much for fuel and your Friday pick-me-up
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Should tourists pay more?
Plus, use of cash hits four-year high, ice cream prices rise by 30 per cent and lessons from the global IT outage
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Is this the most important business in Europe?
Plus, Britain set to miss 2030 clean power targets, chancellor aiming to woo US investors and exited Carpetright founder strikes rescue deal
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Biden steps down and Britain’s billion-pound businesses
Plus, Biden steps down, company financial distress on the rise and the IMF issues the chancellor a stern warning
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Graphcore sold and Biden rattled
Plus, Rachel Reeves to form new council of economic advisers, UK business distress fastest rising in Europe and Rio Tinto is wargaming a massive takeover
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UK economy grows faster than expected
Plus, FCA overhauls listings regime, UK overtakes India as the world’s third-largest venture capital market and British tycoon closing in on a deal for The Body Shop
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Retailers count the cost of a wet summer
Plus, Wimbledon choosing to leave $100m on the table, Asda scraps its four-day work week and Thames Water needs fresh funds
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Labour’s ‘difficult’ economic decisions
Plus, low exec pay risks a US talent drain, Carlsberg acquires Britvic and is this the end of levelling up?
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Business welcomes Labour government but pushes for real change
Plus, inflationary pressures ease further, UK steel warns over the high price of electricity and Amazon turns 30
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Is fear an effective driver of performance?
Plus, new car sales hit five-year high, private equity M&A growth, and a new Barbie exhibition launches
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Why complacency is almost always a prelude to failure
Plus, steakhouse Hawksmoor is up for sale, election investment boost pending and record cash injection into equity funds
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Big Zuu’s big vision: Innovating music, TV and the water industry
The rapper and TV presenter is a larger than life character who has turned a tough start into a mould-breaking success story
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The woman behind a ticketing juggernaut
Plus, the next government to benefit from easing of the cost-of-living crisis, Tata Port Talbot steel plant strikes called off and Revolut reports record profits
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Addressing the UK’s ‘tax gap’
Plus, newspapers reveal who they're backing in the general election, pension fund to "unlock access" to PE gains and exec pay gap between the UK and US widens
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The risk of private equity to the economy
Plus, the UK's top 100 fastest-growing companies, the six high school friends now worth £1bn and Aviva chief says the next government can unlock £100bn of investment
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Job openings on the decline
Plus, the UK's biggest lender has a major warning for the next PM, a spotlight on AI washing and new theme park to boost economy by nearly £50bn
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The tragedy behind one angel’s public success
Angel investor and entrepreneur Peter Cowley talks about how his business success has come despite enormous personal tragedy
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The tough choices over net zero
Plus, Lufthansa adds green surcharge to flight costs, how Bernard Arnault built LVMH and why Netflix thinks you should fire some employees
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Are we set for another ‘great resignation’?
Plus, the secret WhatsApp group helping CEOs with isolation, pension insurance chief calls UK a “banana economy”, and a landmark AI lawsuit is tabled
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Is AI plastering over real-world business problems?
Plus, how Adidas's CEO revived the sports brand, the London Stock Exchange gets a listing snub and Brussels accuses Apple of breaking big tech monopoly rules
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Interest rates hold steady
Plus, Asos warns staff over virtual meetings, Sainsbury's pays to get rid of its bank and the eye-watering economic boost of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour