Beefeater will close all 106 of its UK restaurants on Thursday 10 September, owner Whitbread has confirmed, as part of a five-year plan the group says will deliver £250 million of cost savings. Brewers Fayre’s 89 sites will stop trading after evening service on 7 September. Whitbread’s other branded restaurantContinue Reading

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Jeff Bezos has said Amazon’s custom chip business is “lining up to be our next pillar”, alongside the retail, streaming and cloud divisions of the world’s largest company by revenue, as the group prepares to spend about $200 billion in capital in 2026, most of it on artificial intelligence infrastructure.Continue Reading

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New industry figures show the UK’s warehouse market has expanded by 61% since 2015, reflecting changing supply chains, ecommerce growth and businesses carrying larger inventories. If you wanted to understand how British businesses have changed over the past decade, you could do worse than look inside their warehouses. New analysisContinue Reading

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Most businesses can tell you when the boiler was last serviced, when the fire alarm was last tested, and when the lift was last certified. Ask when the mature beech at the edge of the car park was last inspected by someone qualified to assess it, and the answer isContinue Reading

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