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Battle for Just Eat reheated as Prosus sprinkles an extra £200m on top of its bid in attempt to see off rival Takeaway.com Investment firm Prosus has upped its bid to £5.1billion from £4.9billion It also lowered the threshold the offer would have to reach to 50 per cent The deadline for shareholders to accept has … Read more

DMGT bolstered by growth of MailOnline while Mail newspapers increase their strong market share MailOnline sees revenue grow 14% to £140million DMGT says Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday market share at 25.5% and 22.8%  Group profits were 21% lower at £145m due to changes in business portfolio On an underlying basis, excluding disposals, profits were … Read more

Four High Street chains up for grabs: Jessops, Iceland, New Look and Virgin Active gyms put out the for sale signs By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 27 November 2019 | Updated: 10:14 BST, 28 November 2019 Four High Street chains put out the ‘for sale’ signs yesterday. The owners of … Read more

Conman told to pay £300k to victims of his bogus investment scheme or face another two and a half years in jail By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 November 2019 | Updated: 22:15 GMT, 27 November 2019 Confiscation order: Mark Starling (pictured with daughter Rosie)  was jailed for five years … Read more

After a disastrous first year on the stock market, Aston Martin was starting to look like a firm only the most diehard petrolheads would want to invest in. But its luck may have changed – if a recent rally continues. The James Bond favourite surged 10.7 per cent, or 56.6p, to close at 586.8p, and … Read more

Dozens of the UK’s biggest companies have been named and shamed for having all- male boards or just a single ‘token’ female director. Two companies in the FTSE 350 – property group Daejan Holdings and software firm Kainos Group – have no women on the board. And a further 39 have only one female board … Read more

Games Workshop shares leap as the Dwarfs, Orcs and Elves retailer says its profits are set to surge Retailer expects sales for the six months to December to be at least £140m Nottingham-headquartered firm said profits for the period will be at least £55m Shares climbed 17 per cent to 5267p following the update on Friday   … Read more

Boohoo hopes for boost from Cara Delevingne’s new line for their Nasty Gal label By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 25 October 2019 | Updated: 23:56 BST, 25 October 2019 Nasty Gal has launched a collection with Cara Delevingne this week. And retail experts hoped the supermodel’s 44million Instagram … Read more

STOCK WATCH: Tesco is ‘overweight’, as it prepares for leaner times By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 28 September 2019 | Updated: 13:39 BST, 29 September 2019 It is hard to believe that it’s exactly five years since Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis alerted the City to a black hole … Read more

Prudential set to spend £350m spinning off M&G investment arm into a separate stock market business By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 25 September 2019 | Updated: 10:09 GMT, 26 September 2019 Prudential is set to shell out £350million on spinning off its M&G arm into a separate business. The 171-year-old … Read more

Philip Green’s Topshop and Burton empire plunges to a £170m loss as it falls behind in ‘dramatically’ changed retail industry Arcadia Group includes Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton and Wallis  Accounts for holding company Taveta show it swung to £170million loss last year Sales across the group slumped by 4.5 per cent to £1.8billion  By Emily … Read more

Greene King sales slip as pub sector continues to lose its fizz and £2.7billion takeover by Hong Kong family looms Greene King said the decline in group sales was driven by ‘softer’ beer sales Net income across its pub arm slid 4.2% as it fell short of 2018 trading levels The looming takeover offers a … Read more