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UK cereal firm Weetabix is to be bought by US firm Post Holdings for $1.8bn (£1.4bn), its owner has confirmed.

Only a quarter of firms say their business has security measures in place to guard against hacking.

Although footfall declined by 5.9 per cent on Good Friday, it increased by 4.6 per cent on Easter Saturday and also rose on Sunday compared to last year

Families should brace themselves for steeper price rises after a leading accountancy body warned that protecting customers from higher costs is now “unsustainable” for businesses.

Despite another fall in unemployment and a rise in vacancies, inflation outstripped pay growth in February.

The European Commission has warned that a £750m plan that will allow Royal Bank of Scotland to abandon a troublesome sale of its Williams & Glyn business could eventually deal a £1.5bn hit to the taxpayer-backed lender.

The company’s annual pension contributions are currently around £400m but if no changes are made that figure could more than double to over £1bn in 2018.

More the half of UK employers believe stress and mental health illnesses are escalating, according to new research.

UK firms want to recruit more workers but cannot find or afford the right staff, a survey has found.

Companies more than double spending on mobile video ads as Britons watch clips, TV and movies on smartphones.

Tesco has claimed that its turnaround plan is ahead of schedule after unveiling its first rise in UK sales for seven years while profits have broken through the £1bn mark.

More of Britain’s companies are missing deadlines for setting up auto-enrolment platforms than ever before, new research has revealed.

A typical FTSE 100 firm is worse off by an average of £120m after a breach.

The head of security at Barclays faces an internal disciplinary probe over his part in a whistleblowing inquiry.

Reeling from a public relations debacle triggered by the forced removal of a passenger on Sunday, United Airlines saw its stock price dip by as much as 4.4 per cent before it recovered most of its losses and ended the day with a more modest drop.