
One in five family manufacturers weigh overseas sale over IHT changes
Make UK and Bishop Fleming survey finds inheritance tax changes and energy costs are prompting family-owned manufacturers to consider selling up.
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Make UK and Bishop Fleming survey finds inheritance tax changes and energy costs are prompting family-owned manufacturers to consider selling up.

JLR job cuts of up to 4,000 over two years at the UK's largest carmaker will not be met with a bailout, business secretary Jonathan Reynolds…

Virgin Atlantic Team GB deal makes Branson's airline the official carrier for LA 2028, ending British Airways' run as partner since the Beijing 2008 Games.

Ministers are expected to approve the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen in mid-September, according to government and industry sources.

OpenAI Astra launched on 3 September as president Greg Brockman said the world had entered the AGI era, days after Sam Altman called AGI a marketing…

John Lewis is launching an Angela Scanlon-hosted YouTube chatshow and social studio to improve its AI search results as ChatGPT use among shoppers climbs.

B&Q, Five Guys, Serco and Whitbread are among 658 employers named by the government for minimum wage underpayments, repaying £4m to 27,000 workers.

New Companies House filings show Harvey Nichols and Company went into administration owing £270.5 million to unsecured creditors, and administrators FTI Consulting expect no more than…

The former Match of the Day presenter, one of more than 120 signatories to an open letter asking Andy Burnham for a 2 per cent wealth…

London housing costs are limiting the ability of 74% of the capital's business leaders to recruit and retain staff, according to polling for the London Chamber…

Nigel Green, chief executive of deVere Group, says a bank windfall tax in the Chancellor's first Budget would hand a competitive gift to rival financial centres,…

The first competitions under the £100 million Sovereign AI procurement scheme invite British AI companies to build solutions for the NHS, defence, compute and cyber security,…

The Mike Lynch appeal will go ahead after the Court of Appeal gave the late tech entrepreneur's estate permission to challenge the £920m fraud award to…

An Amazon advertising lawsuit filed by the FTC and 22 US states alleges the company manipulated its ad auctions to overcharge more than a million advertising…

Shop price inflation rose to 1.5 per cent in August, the fastest rate in more than two years, as higher energy and commodity costs fed through…