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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Household goods giant Reckitt Benckiser has said it is increasing prices in the UK andContinue Reading

Households on Universal Credit will be able to claim a bursary worth up to £4,500 a year when a young person in the family starts an apprenticeship, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Education has announced. The payment is designed to replace benefit income lost whenContinue Reading

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

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

The World Cup is one of the last events on earth that still gathers a genuinely mass audience. Billions of people watch. For a few weeks, the whole conversation bends toward one thing. Official sponsorship of that moment costs a fortune. Most businesses will never pay it, and most doContinue Reading

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