Author: Nathan Bissitt

The competition watchdog is launching enforcement action against a number of hotel booking sites which it believes may be breaking the law.  As part of an ongoing investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has identified widespread concerns about the

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating claims of insider dealing at Carillion ahead of the now-collapsed construction firm’s first profit warning in July last year. The revelation was made in correspondence between the regulator and the chair of

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Ticketmaster has said some customers’ personal information and credit card details have been stolen in a data breach. The ticket sales website said in a statement that it was hit by “malicious software” on Saturday through a third-party supplier to

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A former Foreign Office minister will this week be named as the first independent chairman of Camelot, the National Lottery operator, since it changed ownership nearly a decade ago. Sky News has learnt that Sir Hugh Robertson, who also served as the Sport and Olympics

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If you are planning to drink draught John Smith’s beer or Strongbow cider in a Wetherspoons any time soon you may be disappointed. The chain says some of its pubs do not currently have those drinks because of the carbon dioxide shortage that has hit the UK. But

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Inevitably, with today’s profits warning from the John Lewis Partnership, there will be speculation that the owner of the eponymous department stores and the Waitrose grocery chain is being blasted by the hurricanes that have afflicted so many of its

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Nelson Peltz, one of the world’s most feared activist investors, is raising a £1bn warchest that he will use to push for strategic and boardroom changes at a leading blue-chip British company. Sky News has learnt that Mr Peltz, whose vehicle Trian Partners has held

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Britain’s biggest coffee shop chain Costa has blamed a drop in sales on the woes affecting the British high street. Owner Whitbread said like-for-like sales fell by 2% in the first quarter, “principally from footfall weakness in traditional shopping

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