Xavier Niel seizes top spot at Vodafone with £4.4bn stake swoop
French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel is to become the largest shareholder in Vodafone, the group behind the UK’s biggest mobile network, after agreeing a £4.4...
Athena, the brand behind Tennis Girl, goes up for sale
Athena, the poster retailer that decorated a generation of British bedrooms and gave the world the Tennis Girl, is up for sale, offering entrepreneurs and...
Cyber giant Rubrik picks London for EMEA HQ with £375m pledge
Rubrik, the security and AI operations company, is to invest more than £375 million ($500 million) in the UK over the next five years and...
‘The work starts now’: nightlife bosses set Burnham an early test
Britain’s night time economy has greeted Andy Burnham’s expected arrival in Downing Street with something it has not felt in years: optimism. But its trade...
German corporate bankruptcies hit 21-year high
Almost 5,000 companies filed for insolvency in April-June 2026, according to new data Germany has recorded its highest number of corporate bankruptcies in more than...
US LNG exporter cashes in on Iran war
America’s second-largest liquefied natural gas exporter, Venture Global, says its average liquefaction fee has jumped 69% US liquefied natural gas exporters are cashing in on...