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Royal Mail was last night reported to have lost a £25 million contract with Amazon, its second largest customer, as a national strike looms over the…
Saturday 12 September 2026
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Royal Mail was last night reported to have lost a £25 million contract with Amazon, its second largest customer, as a national strike looms over the…
This week a survey of Britain’s leading store group executives found that 34% do not expect strong growth until 2011 and are preparing for a ‘flat…
It has been confirmed that Business Minister Baroness Vadera is to leave Gordon Brown's government. She was appointed in January 2008 following a Cabinet reshuffle.
Corporate Britain should be protected from proposed sweeping reforms on bonuses and risk-taking, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD). In its first detailed response to…
Optimism is growing among Britain’s manufacturers, but conditions in the sector remain challenging, according to the CBI’s latest monthly Industrial Trends Survey.
Business lending fell by the largest amount on record in July after banks wrote off £2.2billion of corporate debt. Lending contracted by £8.4billion between June and…
A national study by the UK’s leading online takeaway site has found that Sheffield is home to the hardest working employees in the country, where employees…
The Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has intervened in what had become a turf war between the regions and Whitehall will lead to the Treasury signing off…
If your business is based in a rural location and you want broadband access then you might find that you are hit with higher charges than…
Lord Sugar is threatening to sue the sketch writer and columnist Quentin Letts after Letts described Sugar as being a 'telly peer who doesn’t seem to…
Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work. EBay, which paid $2.6…
A war of words has erupted between clockwork radio inventor Trevor Baylis and James Caan, one of the multimillionaires who fronts BBC2's Dragon's Den. Mr Baylis…
Alistair Darling has this afternoon demanded to know from the heads of Britain's biggest banks why they are reaping vast interest charges from small businesses when…
Next year's series of The Apprentice may have to be rescheduled if a general election is called, after the BBC Trust ruled that presenter Lord Sugar's…
The star of TV's The Apprentice, now named Baron Sugar of Clapton, was formerly introduced to his fellow peers on Monday afternoon. Flanked by trade minister…
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