Graduation season used to mark a clean break. A final photograph on campus, a train home, a brief summer of family familiarity, and then the onward motion into shared houses,
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ohn Lewis is preparing to remove some of the small courtesies that have long helped it feel different from its rivals. Gift wrapping stations will go in a number of
When a Swiss pharmaceutical giant agrees to pay up to $1.5 billion for a British biotech that is not yet selling a single medicine, the first instinct in London is
Zuber Issa has agreed to buy 85 petrol stations from the collapsed Prax Group, a deal that underlines two stubborn truths about modern Britain: fuel retail remains a cash-generating business
On a first encounter, Farnworth Green presents the sort of municipal optimism that looks persuasive from a train window. Step off at the bus station and you are met by
For the small firms that make Britain’s Christmas economy feel local, personal and worth paying for, the festive season is not a gentle uplift but a hard sprint. It is
In the ritual theatre of the Nasdaq MarketSite, where founders pose for photographs beside the ticker and investors try to read a company’s future in the first minutes of trading,
For the devotees of America’s newest obsession, the future is no longer something to be endured, forecast or feared. It is something to be priced, traded and, if you fancy
For a business built on punctuality, easyJet has spent the past few years looking as though it is permanently stuck in a holding pattern. Passenger demand returned after the pandemic;
Hargreaves Lansdown has spent much of its life behaving like the incumbent it is: dominant, well-capitalised, and comfortable charging a little more than the upstarts snapping at its heels. That
The £2.7 billion takeover of Tate & Lyle by Ingredion has been greeted in the Square Mile with the sort of quiet satisfaction that rarely makes it into the deal
The symbolism is hard to miss. A Yorkshire engineering business that helped to keep Spitfires in the air at the moment Britain most needed them has been sold to a
When an asset manager the size of Aviva Investors decides to pick a public fight with a board, it is rarely about theatrics. It is about price. In the contest
For years, Britain’s retail parks were treated as functional afterthoughts: practical sheds on ring roads, useful for buying a sofa, a tin of paint, or a replacement tumble dryer, but
Tesla employees have been told to curb their use of external artificial intelligence tools, after Elon Musk introduced a weekly limit of $200 (about £150) on spending with third-party AI
PwC’s decision to base its next main London office in Canary Wharf is being read, with some justification, as another vote of confidence in a district that has spent the