Primark expects to rake in £2billion worth of sales by the end of the year since reopening its stores in June. The cheap fashion group, which does not operate an online shop, beat its sales expectations in the last quarter amid ‘reassuring and encouraging’ signs that shoppers still have an appetite for inexpensive fast fashion. … Read more
Survey finds almost one in five small businesses do not believe they would survive a new lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 6 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 6 September 2020 Almost one in five small businesses do not believe they would survive a new lockdown, a survey found. … Read more
Spending returned to pre-lockdown levels in July as Britons spruced up their gardens and, by August, ventured out for a meal By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 6 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 6 September 2020 Spending returned to pre-lockdown levels in July as Britons spruced up their gardens and, … Read more
Mortgage borrowers dealt another blow as two major banks heavily restrict how much they will lend to homebuyers Barclays has limited loans to just 4.49 times someone’s income – down from five-and-a-half times previously NatWest also quietly reduced the amount some customers can borrow By Samantha Partington For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 6 … Read more
Dividends paid by companies listed on AIM will fall by at least a third this year in another blow to retail investors By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 6 September 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 September 2020 Dividends paid by companies listed on AIM will fall by at least a … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Government shows little sign of having grasped the scale of the aerospace crisis – a betrayal of the industry would cost the country dear for generations to come The Government’s abject failure to get the planes flying again will kybosh ambitions to be an open, free-trading economy post-Brexit Politicians seem to have forgotten … Read more
Pret A Manger has rapidly become the corporate emblem of ghost town Britain. With the majority of workers still not back in offices, the sandwich and coffee giant is routinely used as an example of the type of business at risk of disappearing altogether. That was no more apparent than in late August when Pret … Read more
The Queen’s moving home! Grade I-listed Belvoir Castle has lost its starring role in Netflix series The Crown in a row over money By Jo Macfarlane and Amy Oliver for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:54 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 08:17 BST, 6 September 2020 It has already lost £2.5 million after being … Read more
The Queen’s moving home! Grade I-listed Belvoir Castle has lost its starring role in Netflix series The Crown in a row over money By Jo Macfarlane and Amy Oliver for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:54 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 08:17 BST, 6 September 2020 It has already lost £2.5 million after being … Read more
Employers told to make it easier for savers to transfer out of a defined benefit pension A report is calling on firms to make it easier for workers to run their own pension More advice needs to be made available, the report says Or else there is a danger that savers could end up dealing … Read more