Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City A.M. column. Today, he looks at Burberry’s threads wearing thin, Hammerson’s …
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Majority of Brits back idea of Labour extending £77m per year package for Team GB to have shot at Olympic Games success
Two thirds of Brits back government funding being used to propel Team GB athletes to gold medals at Paris 2024. Exclusive polling shared with City A.M. shows that 67 per …
Square Mile and Me: Berry Bros CEO Emma Fox on retail, her career and wine
Each week we ask a City figure to take a trip down memory lane. Today, Berry Bros CEO Emma Fox, who is also executive director at The City Pub Group …
Reform UK’s Habib prepares for activist investor scrap
Ben Habib is not a man averse to a fight. Five months ago, Reform UK’s then deputy leader was standing atop a battle bus in Wellingborough laying siege to the …
MHA: UK arm of Baker Tilly International revenue jumps to £180m
MHA, the UK and Irish arm of Baker Tilly International, saw revenue jump by nearly 30 per cent to £180m, with audit and tax being the main drivers to the …
Treasury expands business engagement unit with new City team
The Treasury has created a new team to engage with City firms as the new Labour government looks to bulk out the department’s business engagement unit, City A.M. can reveal. …
UK deal value skyrockets to £68bn as buyers pounce on bigger targets
The value of UK mergers and acquisitions (M&A) skyrocketed by nearly two-thirds in the first half of the year as appetite for bigger deals rebounded among corporate buyers. There has …
The UK economy has defied gloomy expectations. Can this continue?
The UK economy has surprised pundits again and again this year, growing at a much faster rate than almost anyone had expected. In the first quarter, the economy grew 0.7 …
Talktalk: The telecoms titan on the brink
It takes something big for the volume of news around a telecoms firm to eclipse that of its customer complaints. Broadband and mobile network providers are constantly dealing with the …
Worst corporate jargon of the week: Disruptor
Offender: Disruptor Every one of us has been an email chain which is borderline unintelligible for the amount of corporate lingo thrown in there. At City A.M., we’re taking a …