Author: Nathan Bissitt

Sainsbury’s has reported a slowdown in sales growth but says it has the “right strategy in place” in a competitive market. The country’s second-largest supermarket chain said like-for-like sales were up 0.2% in its first quarter to the end of

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The former WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell is plotting to raise up to £1bn for a takeover spree that could ultimately re-establish him at the helm of a sizeable international marketing services empire. Sky News can reveal that a shareholder circular posted on Wednesday

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Adverts for some of the UK’s most popular confectionery brands have been banned under rules designed to protect children from products high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS). Online and social media ads for Cadbury eggs and Chewits and Squashies were found to have

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Train building rivals Bombardier and Hitachi will join forces to bid for a £2.75bn contract to build high-speed trains in the UK. They had previously submitted separate bids for the contract.to design, build and maintain at least 54 new high-speed trains. The trains

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An influential retail expert says it is time to accept there is too much retail space in the UK and town and city centres must be “re-fashioned” into community spaces. Bill Grimsey, former chief executive of Wickes, Iceland and Booker, came to the

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Former workers for the collapsed construction giant Carillion are taking legal action against the company through the UK’s largest trade union. According to Unite, the 80 workers were employed by Carillion subsidiary Planned Maintenance Engineering Ltd, on a

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The government plans to lift its fuel and alcohol duty freezes to boost NHS funding, according to senior government sources. Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond want to scrap the duty freezes in an effort to find £20bn of extra investment for the health service

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WPP Group has become embroiled in a bidding war with the new venture set up by Sir Martin Sorrell, less than three months after he quit the FTSE-100 company that he built into the world’s biggest marketing services group. Sky News has learnt that WPP tabled an

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Water companies are being required to link bosses’ pay and shareholder dividends to customer service performance, as part of efforts to bolster public trust. Industry regulator Ofwat said firms across England and Wales had until September to submit their updated

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