Customers switching to own-brand products because of the cost-of-living crisis impacted sales at Victorian Plumbing during the first part of its financial year, according to new figures. The Skelmersdale-headquartered company…
Student landlord Unite Group has reported a jump in earnings for 2023 on the back of strong occupancy levels and higher rents. Earnings came in at £184m for 2023, up…
The chief executive of Google DeepMind has said artificial intelligence (AI) could be designing drugs in clinics within the next couple of years. Demis Hassabis, who founded DeepMind in the…
A record 93.4 per cent of all in-store card transactions up to £100 were made using contactless, according to a new study by Barclays, as the payment method traditionally used…
Cutting stamp duty on the purchase of properties and shares should come top of the Chancellor’s list of potential tax cuts in the Spring Budget, a leading think tank has…
Each day, Coinrule will run through the state of the digital assets market for Blockbeat, your home for news, analysis, opinion and commentary on blockchain and digital assets. One of crypto’s key…
Once Derya Matras has her business strategy locked in place, it is “relentless execution” from then on. Matras, who is Meta’s vice president for the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and…
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will likely be working late into the night as he looks to make the maths add up ahead of the Spring Budget on 6 March. One thing…
Shop price inflation or the rate at which these goods increase has slowed to 2.5 per cent in February, marking the lowest level recorded in close to two years. British…
Another day, another complaint from a listed firm that things have not entirely gone to plan. Yesterday it was the Aquis-listed Quantum Exponential Group, which invests in computing businesses. Long story short,…