UK factories roar back to life after Boris Johnson win: Confidence jumps by the most in 62 years By Hugo Duncan And Dan Atkinson For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 22 January 2020 | Updated: 22:04 GMT, 22 January 2020 Sajid Javid has been handed a major boost ahead of his first Budget as … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Builder Berkeley Group plans to almost double its shareholder payout to £1bn over next two years, bringing £13m windfall for its founder and chairman By Ian Lyall For The Daily Mail Published: 21:59 GMT, 22 January 2020 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 22 January 2020 Builder Berkeley Group plans to almost double its shareholder … Read more
Tim Martin berates pro-Remain organisations for ‘doubling down on Project Fear stories’ as his pub chain Wetherspoons reports strong Christmas trading Wetherspoon will reduce the price of ten drinks in celebration of Brexit Shareholders previously rejected the PIRC’s calls to get rid of Martin as boss Martin called on the CBI and FDF to accept the … Read more
Groomed to paw-fection! Pets at Home sees best ever day of trading and pampers over 27,000 dogs in the week before Christmas with Stockport drawing the biggest crowds On Christmas eve, Pets at Home groomed over 6,000 dogs in a single day Group’s Stockport shop saw the most dogs groomed in run up to Christmas … Read more
Luxury brand Burberry registers higher sales on back of expansion in China but investors warn that coronavirus outbreak could damage growth Burberry scored growth of between 10 and 20 per cent in mainland China New collections designed by Riccardo Tisci continued their strong popularity Annualised cost savings have also come in £5million ahead of previous … Read more
FTSE LIVE: Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe steps down; Ted Baker wildly overstates inventory; Burberry raises profit guidance By This Is Money Published: 08:05 GMT, 22 January 2020 | Updated: 08:06 GMT, 22 January 2020 Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe has announced he will leave the supermarket giant in the summer. He will be replaced by the … Read more
Prudential customers left waiting for pension payments after IT glitch told they will get their money By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 January 2020 | Updated: 23:04 GMT, 21 January 2020 Peter Burgess, 65, had been unable to access his pension pot but the Pru promised to transfer the funds … Read more
Overdrafts to cost 40% at TSB in move that will cost nearly a third of the bank’s customers more By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 January 2020 | Updated: 23:03 GMT, 21 January 2020 Hike: TSB will charge a blanket rate of 39.9 per cent for both unarranged and arranged overdrafts … Read more
At some point on October 15, 2015, possibly in the dead of night while waiting for my then one-year-old to go back to sleep, two clicks on my mobile phone cost me £615. Though I have zero recollection, while browsing the internet on that date (a memorable one, it was my birthday), I’d apparently gravitated … Read more
Sainsbury to lay off hundreds more managers as part of half-billion pound cost-saving drive By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:25 GMT, 21 January 2020 | Updated: 22:59 GMT, 21 January 2020 Sainsbury’s is to lay off hundreds more managers as part of a half-billion pound cost-saving drive. The job losses will come … Read more
The Wuhan coronavirus cast its shadow over international equity markets as the first examples of human-to-human infection emerged. The illness is of same grouping as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), which, according to the World Health Organisation, infected more than 8,000 people, killing at least 700, in 2003. In the process, international trade was hobbled, … Read more
Dixons left red-faced over results blunder: Firm reports a 2% Christmas sales rise at 7am, but admits they actually fell 2% at 1.40pm By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:23 GMT, 21 January 2020 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 21 January 2020 Bosses at Dixons Carphone were left red-faced yesterday after they were forced … Read more
Netflix gains another 8.8m subscribers in fourth quarter it braces itself for a flood of new rivals By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:22 GMT, 21 January 2020 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 21 January 2020 Netflix piled on another 8.8m subscribers in the fourth quarter as the streaming platform braces for a flood … Read more