HSBC’s new headquarters in Birmingham spans 10 floors and contains the bank’s first ever digital-only branch. More than 2,000 employees can benefit from a gymnasium, dance studio and training centre dubbed the ‘university’. The bank’s move to Birmingham is seen as a huge vote of confidence in the city, creating 700 new jobs. Source by …
Image copyright Getty Images Brighthouse is shutting 30 of its shops at a cost of 350 jobs amid tough conditions on the High Street and a clampdown on rent-to-own retailers. The company is closing about 10% of its estate which will take place over the next two months. Brighthouse, which employs about 3,000 people, said …
Image copyright Graze Image caption Anthony Fletcher led a management buyout of Graze in 2012 Marmite-owner Unilever has bought healthy snack brand Graze, which started life a decade ago as a snack box delivery service. Graze produces nuts, seeds, trail mixes and snack bars, with no artificial ingredients and Unilever said the purchase would accelerate …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption XPO Logistics delivered goods to House of Fraser stores and to the chain’s online customers About 300 jobs will be lost when a warehouse that supplies deliveries to House of Fraser stores and its customers closes. Workers have been told that the site in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, will shut on …
Image copyright Getty Images IPhone-maker Apple has reached a deal with French authorities to pay back taxes. French magazine L’Express reported that the firm paid nearly €500m ($570m, £439m) in a confidential settlement reached late last year. Apple’s French business confirmed there was a deal in a statement to the Reuters news agency but refused …
Image caption The HMV store on Oxford Street was the first to open in 1921 HMV has been snatched from the jaws of administration for the second time in less than a decade. New owner Doug Putman plans to shut 27 stores, and continue to trade out of 100. The very first HMV store on …
Image copyright Allsop Image caption Some 14 of the mall’s 21 shops are vacant The shopping centre in Fife which was put up for auction with a reserve price of only £1, has been sold for £310,000. A dozen different bidders competed for just five minutes to buy it some online, some over the phone …
Why did some businesses vote for Brexit when it could harm their operations? Panorama’s Adrian Chiles spoke to a Leave-voting farmer in Yorkshire who could lose subsidies and a Hampshire manufacturer who voted Leave and who wants Britain to “paddle its own canoe”. He also hears from a manufacturer in Kent who is convinced Brexit …
Image copyright Flickr Photo-sharing website Flickr is starting to delete users’ photos after changing its terms and conditions. The firm announced in November that it would no longer be allowing its members one terabyte of free storage. Under the new rules, there is a limit of 1,000 photographs for those who do not subscribe to …