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Amazon opens a £500m robotic fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirms the UK's largest cross-dock facility for Kettering, taking its Northamptonshire investment past £1bn and creating…
Business Matters has been announced as launch media partner of the Rural Business Awards 2026, the free-to-enter national awards celebrating rural enterprise on 4 November.
The 2026 World Cup is forecast to unleash £3.8bn in UK consumer spending, with pubs, bookmakers and food delivery firms the big winners, but not everyone…
Sir Jeremy Hunt's Can We Be Rich Again? offers a candid, costed eight-point plan to revive UK growth. Business Matters reviews the former chancellor's blueprint for…
Britain's £1.2bn fish and chip industry is being squeezed by NIC hikes, energy costs and cod prices driven up by Middle East tensions. Industry leaders urge…
Pragmatic Semiconductor, the Durham-based maker of ultra-thin flexible chips, is gearing up to become the UK's largest chipmaker by volume — and has its sights set…
Soaring adoption is failing to translate into bottom-line returns, fuelling fresh anxiety over inflated valuations across the AI sector
America is still growing, but British firms eyeing the US in 2026 need sharper regional targeting, disciplined pricing and a realistic view of cost, says Blick…
Former Red Bull boss Christian Horner has been appointed as a sports investments advisor by private equity firm Oakley Capital, signalling fresh ambitions to scale its…
From April 2027 the cash ISA allowance falls to £12,000 for under-65s and a 22% charge will hit interest on cash in stocks & shares ISAs.…
Rural SMEs say the Iran war has pushed diesel and heating oil to breaking point — and households will be next to feel the pain
Skills minister Baroness Smith says securing a UK apprenticeship is now tougher than winning an Oxbridge place, as ministers promise £600m to create 60,000 new posts…
Icelandic billionaire and Alvotech founder Robert Wessman says inheritance tax, capital gains hikes and political instability are pushing him to leave the UK — taking jobs,…
Foreign investment in UK commercial property has tumbled 30% to £3.6bn in Q1 2026, with planning delays, the building safety backlog and the upward-only rent review…
Chancellor's summer VAT cut for family attractions ignores clubs, festivals and live music venues, NTIA's Michael Kill warns, branding it a 'superficial fix'