In the Business News category you will find a wide selection of articles on businesses and their UK commercial properties. These include corporate news stories featuring companies ranging from established market leaders to SMEs and recent start-ups.
Many retailers enjoyed a successful festive trading period with brands such as John Lewis, New Look and River Island all reporting an increase in profits for the six weeks to the beginning of January. However, fashion chains Bank and USC were less fortunate,... Read More
With the Christmas trading period over, retailers will be turning their minds to the coming year and the ways in which they can best profit from the economic upturn. For Tesco, however, the question is not how to boost profits further but how to prevent a... Read More
Will you be taking your allocated lunch break today or are you, like the majority of employees, cutting short time away from your desk – something which could be having an adverse impact upon workplace productivity? According to a Bupa study, two... Read More
After facing controversy over its Christmas TV advert , it has emerged that the situation at Sainsbury’s has gone from bad to worse over the festive trading period. The supermarket brand has suffered its first fall in Christmas sales in more than a... Read More
Less than a week into the new year Bank Fashion — sold in November by JD Sports — has become the first retail casualty of 2015. weeks after it was sold by the North West sports chain to a turnaround specialist subsidiary of Hilco, the retailer has now... Read More
Although 2015 is set to be a good year for most major cities in the UK according to economists, it is Birmingham that is truly expected to shine thanks to the high number of retail, leisure and hospitality developments in the pipeline. However, it is not only... Read More
Entrepreneurship became one of the buzz words of 2014 in the second half of the year, with more people than ever before launching their own firms due to a combination of an improving economic climate and an increase in the number of incubators launched to... Read More
Renting space in one of Dublin's prestige office quarters is likely to rise by at least 15 per cent by the end of the year, according to a leading property agency. Driven upward by the Irish economic recovery and the shortage of suitable space, global... Read More
The big supermarket chains, such as Tesco and Morrisons, are facing a slight challenge in 2015, as larger store openings are seeing a decline. With customers having other alternatives like online shopping, as well as the smaller discount stores of Aldi and... Read More
With 2014 quickly fading from the memories of businesses across the UK, most executives will be looking to the year ahead and setting targets for commercial growth and revenue increases in 2015. Fortunately, the foundations laid last year appear to have had a... Read More
Business News covers more than company results. Of course you will find these stories in this category alongside news of the latest business deals, mergers and administrations. You can also read about director’s bonuses, supermarket price wars and current retail promotions.
We also carry features covering topical issues affecting businesses like the increasing use of smart phones and the impact of social media. And because business involves people we also report on both serious and light hearted issues facing the staff of offices and other commercial properties.
So if this is the kind of news that interests you, you’ll find it here together with regular updates, analysis and background features.
