Firms are failing to warn customers who’ve bought risky or defective goods, warn experts as they call for an overhaul of recall rules By Laura Shannon For The Mail On Sunday Published: 11:29 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 11:30 GMT, 25 August 2019 Consumer safety experts are calling for an overhaul of the rules … Read more
Tangle Teezer posts strong growth in sales, making it the most successful Dragons’ Den reject ever By Sarah Bridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 10:08 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 10:36 GMT, 25 August 2019 It was mocked by all five judges on BBC’s Dragons’ Den but the detangling hairbrush made by Tangle … Read more
Regus owner IWG weighs possible stock market float in the US in a ploy to rival WeWork By Jamie Nimmo For The Mail On Sunday Published: 10:03 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 10:03 GMT, 25 August 2019 The boss of serviced office firm IWG is weighing a possible stock market float for its American … Read more
Thomas Cook takeover presents ‘much difficulty’ warns Fonsun Tourism Group boss amid talks to rescue firm By William Turvill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 09:43 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 09:43 GMT, 25 August 2019 The boss of the Chinese firm hoping to buy Thomas Cook has admitted he is expecting ‘much difficulty’ … Read more
French bakery chain Paul has started stockpiling food from France ahead of potential no deal Brexit By Sarah Bridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 09:21 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 09:21 GMT, 25 August 2019 French bakery chain Paul has started stockpiling food from France in case Britain exits the European Union without … Read more
Yorkshire mine Sirius sinks into a cash crisis as MPs plead with government to save it By Jamie Nimmo For The Mail On Sunday Published: 09:14 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 09:14 GMT, 25 August 2019 The Government is being urged to provide emergency financial support to Sirius Minerals to prevent its huge fertiliser … Read more
Preventing savers from accessing their cash from frozen funds could be the ‘biggest risk’ facing UK, IMF warns By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 09:10 GMT, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 09:10 GMT, 25 August 2019 A leading economist has warned that an inability for savers to cash in their investments in … Read more
Hargreaves Lansdown chiefs in £6m share sale: High-flyers cashed in weeks before Woodford crisis sent stock tumbling By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 6 June 2019 | Updated: 10:08 GMT, 7 June 2019 Two high flyers at Hargreaves Lansdown sold millions of pounds of shares in the company just weeks before … Read more
‘We CAN stop the slow death of the High Street,’ claims West Midlands mayor Andy Street, as the former John Lewis boss calls for an urgent overhaul of Britain’s ‘archaic’ business rates Andy Street is the former boss of John Lewis and mayor for the West Midlands He is calling for an review of business … Read more
The new PPI? Just one in three payday loan complaints made to the Financial Ombudsman since start of 2018 have been resolved The FOS has received 47,220 new complaints since January 2018 However it has got to the bottom of just 17,000 since April this year While this doesn’t mean there are 26,000 open cases … Read more
Former chancellor Alistair Darling may face court clash as Iran bank Mellat sues the UK over 2009 sanctions Labour ministers placed restrictions on the partially state-owned bank They believed there was evidence linking the bank to financing of state nuclear weapons development The Supreme Court quashed the curbs in 2013 and the bank is after damages … Read more
Two catalogue retailers owned by same firm charging very different prices for the same products By Amelia Murray For The Daily Mail Published: 23:07 BST, 21 May 2019 | Updated: 09:32 BST, 22 May 2019 Littlewoods charged higher prices every time for same item sold in both Littlewoods & Very Shoppers are paying up to … Read more
Optimistic: Former Asda boss Andy Bond now runs more than 2,000 discount stores Every week it seems Britain’s high streets edge closer to extinction. Over the past seven days alone, Debenhams has crashed into administration and new figures revealed we have almost 2,500 fewer stores than last year. No wonder speaking to most retail bosses … Read more