Vending ban on energy drinks to cost industry £43m a year
A blanket ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks from vending machines will strip £43 million a year from an industry dominated by small operators, the...
Rolls-Royce gives Healey a deadline: back us now or we build abroad
Rolls-Royce has put Britain’s new chancellor on the clock, and the deadline is now. The Derby-based engineering group has told Andy Burnham’s government it needs...
Inflation falls to 2.6% but SMEs shouldn’t spend the dividend
UK inflation fell to its lowest level in more than a year last month, but small business owners should read the number for what it...
‘I’m praying they get policy right’: Dimon puts Burnham on notice
Jamie Dimon has handed Andy Burnham’s day-old government both a vote of confidence and a warning shot. The JP Morgan chief executive says he wants...
Farmers to Burnham: you said the family farm tax ‘needs looking at again’
Andy Burnham has been in Downing Street for barely a day, and rural Britain has already presented him with his first invoice. Farmers, landowners and...
Definitely maybe: what PM Andy Burnham means for British business
I went to the Hacienda exactly once, in the early nineties, a Londoner up for the weekend who queued for an hour, paid over the...