Category: Entepreneurship

Calls to return the state pension age to 60 for men and women have been rejected by the government.

The Department for Work and Pensions says lowering the age of entitlement would be “neither affordable nor fair”.

More than 69,000 …

Over 1.1 million job vacancies are lying open as the pingdemic worsens the UK worker shortage.

The ‘pingdemic’ is the latest challenge to sectors struggling to hire. There were 1,116,454 advertised job vacancies between 19th – 25th July, marking the …

Amazon signalled last night that its breakneck growth will slow over the coming months as people emerge from pandemic restrictions.

Net sales at the world’s largest ecommerce group rose by 27 per cent to $113.1 billion in the second quarter, …

The number of people on furlough fell below two million towards the end of June as the economic recovery gathered pace, official figures show.

Almost three million people have come off furlough since the restrictions started to ease in March, …

More than 5 million people had a parcel lost or stolen last year, according to Citizens Advice, which has called on the government to start fining firms that keep losing deliveries as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the sector.

Chief executives are being warned to “think twice before they tweet” after the boss of takeaway company Just Eat Takeaway was told his Twitter spat with Uber threatened to undermine the firm’s reputation.

Jitse Groen this week became the latest …

Aston Martin is back on the road and set to hit its income targets for the year, according to its executives, but it remains stubbornly lossmaking at the bottom line.

On the back of a first full calendar year of …

Boris Johnson has rejected Brussels’ latest attempt to iron out problems with the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland, insisting that the withdrawal agreement signed last year must be renegotiated.

A series of proposals published by the European Commission on Monday …

I wholeheartedly believe that business and shark diving are essentially the same thing. Both are exciting. Both have their fair share of risk. Both require you to be on your A-game all of the time.

Now, I know what you’re …

Gym King, one of the UK’s fastest growing lifestyle performance brands, has secured a multi-million-pound investment from FTSE 100 listed JD Sports.

The investment will see JD take a significant minority stake in the business. This strategic partnership is designed …