
Only a third of hospitality firms optimistic about their future
Only a third of UK hospitality businesses are optimistic about their future due to high energy prices and rising food costs, industry bosses have warned.
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Only a third of UK hospitality businesses are optimistic about their future due to high energy prices and rising food costs, industry bosses have warned.

More prospective house sellers are returning to the UK’s property market, pushing agreed home sales to their highest point of the year in May, according to…

Consumers buying Mars bars at Tesco in the coming days will notice a change: the chocolate bar’s usual plastic wrapper has been swapped for a more…

Retail sales volumes have fallen this month compared with the same period last year, while staffing levels have dropped sharply, a survey has found.

Retail sales volumes recovered slightly by 0.5 per cent in April as the sector was lifted by the Easter holidays, however high inflation and strains on…

The number of small businesses planning to increase prices to their customers is set to rise dramatically this quarter, further fuelling inflationary pressures.

VivaCity, the transport technology scaleup transforming cities into smarter and more efficient places to live and work, has partnered with Transport for Wales (TfW), Welsh Government…

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has backed interest rate hikes being used to calm soaring inflation even if they increase the risk of pushing the UK into recession.

Asda is finalising a deal to buy its sister business EG Group’s UK and Irish petrol forecourts in a deal worth £3bn, allowing the supermarket to…

Drivers in Britain have seen their choice of battery electric car models quadruple in the past five years as manufacturers commit to delivering the UK’s ambition…

Germany slipped into an official recession over the winter, triggered by family finances being crushed by sky high energy bills, official figures out today show.

Net migration to the UK has hit a record high of 606,000, new figures released this morning reveal.

Anne Boden is stepping down as chief executive of Starling Bank, nine years after founding the company.

Scores of companies who have suspended their membership of the CBI will be allowed to vote on the business lobby group's future at a crucial meeting next…

Young Enterprise has provided 7.2 million young people with practical financial and enterprise education opportunities since being founded in 1962, including 1.1 million young people who…