B&Q owner Kingfisher increases half-year profit outlook as sales soar
The group saw UK and Ireland like-for-like sales jump 65% in the three months to April 30, although trading from a year earlier was impacted by temporary store closures in the first lockdown.
Meet the lawyer and Liverpool fan who wants to see football break down barriers
The sight of the biggest names showing solidarity with victims of racial injustice might indicate a tidal wave of opinion is forming to sweep away decades of bigotry and racism.
There must be no reversing of the latest easing of lockdown, this has to be it – Mark Casci
It marked the first time I had properly been a city centre for months (Leeds in case you are interested) and the first time I had been in another building that was not either my house or a retail establishment since before Christmas.
BT fastracks roll out of ultrafast broadband in a move that will create 7,000 jobs
Philip Jansen told reporters that the company would create jobs as it upped its fibre targets by five million within the next five years.
Family firm to create 50 new jobs with £15m development in Grimsby
Developer Wykeland Group has applied to North East Lincolnshire Council for planning consent for a building at Wykeland’s Europarc business park in Grimsby, to enable a major expansion by leading food products supply chain business HSH Coldstores.
The Works sees online dip after shops reopen
The business, whose chairman is former Huddersfield Town owner and Card Factory founder Dean Hoyle, reported a 121 per cent boom in online sales over the past year, however it was unable to make up for its shops, which have been closed for more than a third of the time.
The Better Business Act can put an end to short-term corporate plunder – Bird Lovegod
Other laws are more subtle, they provide a palette of colours to fill in the spaces, and it’s these that are frequently less obvious, even as they shade us all, embedded as they are in company law and articles of association.
Games Workshop hands £12m to staff after bumper year
The group said each employee will have received £5,000 in cash over the year to May under its profit-share scheme.
The economic recovery will fall short if we are denied promises made on high speed rail – Paul Hirst
It will be a vital moment for the North. Securing high-speed rail is a huge vote of confidence for our region, acting as a spur for regeneration and growth at a moment when we are emerging from the biggest economic disruption in a generation.
Job fears as Provident Financial is to exit the UK's oldest doorstep lending business
The Bradford-based firm has begun a consultation process for the 2,100 employees employed in its home credit market and said the 141-year-old division will no longer offer any home collected credit.
