Director dealings are an important consideration for some investors. After all, directors are likely to know more about the state of the company they work for than…

Has a company treated you unfairly? Our Consumer Champion is available to help. For how to contact her click here.   Dear Sally, In November, I purchased a television…

Last year, GoPuff acquired two smaller UK start-ups, Dija and Fancy before launching in Britain, and in November, Getir acquired Weezy. Gorillas, for its part, recently entered…

Waitrose is scrapping its free newspaper offer for loyalty card customers after it emerged it is pushing up prices three times faster than rivals. In an email…

Shoppers, meanwhile, can be comforted by familiar-looking products, and they are more likely to buy something if they know what to expect. Products that resemble established brands…

A billionaire lieutenant of the “man who broke the Bank of England” has begun selling down his multi-million-pound stake in AO World in a new blow to…

Marks & Spencer has settled a copyright row with Aldi over its Colin the Caterpillar cake after the German discounter altered the appearance of a lookalike version….

Clive Black, a retail analyst at Shore Capital, says: “Tesco’s proposition has moved on and into the mainstream of the business.  “The two phases of the Aldi…

A fake Amazon review ring run from Germany has been shut down for the first time following a legal challenge in the British courts. The High Court…

Jacqueline Gold, chief executive of Ann Summers, is in a conciliatory mood. She’s on a comeback.  Three years ago, Gold went to war with a small band…

Commuters will be offered free bacon sandwiches and coffee as part of a government charm offensive to get Britons back on the railways. A commuter rewards website…

The campaigner is setting up her own index tracking the price of the basic ranges at supermarkets with the help of an army of Twitter followers, known…

But, as with much new technology, there are teething problems. The app is only available on iPhones so far and only works when connected to the store’s…

After umming and ahhing for several months, Walgreens, the Chicago-based retailer that owns Boots, last week finally confirmed what the City had known for some time. Bosses…

Peloton shares tumbled more than a quarter on Thursday after a report said the company was pausing production of its bikes and treadmills. The company plans to…

GSK is planning to float its consumer division, which makes items such as Panadol pain relief and Nicorette, and has rebuffed three offers by Unilever to buy it. Unilever’s…

“The approaches today, mostly by the trillion-dollar technology organisations you see in North America, revolve around an approach that is based on high definition maps, hand-coded rules,…

The problem once again is one of expectation versus reality, and the flimsy explanations provided for the gap between the two. With profit margins failing to meet…

And to keep its “financial discipline” Unilever plans to sell off its lower-growth food brands – Marmite, Hellmann’s and Ben & Jerry’s are all facing the chop…

GlaxoSmithKline is courting the sovereign wealth funds of Qatar and Singapore as cornerstone investors in a listing of its £50bn consumer business as it seeks to head off…

Asda’s owners, the billionaire Issa brothers, are examining a multi-billion pound swoop for pharmacy chain Boots as tightening debt markets may threaten to scupper a potential deal. …

Martin Deboo at Jefferies said boosting the offer to a £55bn all-cash bid would lift the cost and debt for Unilever to a “prohibitive amount”.  Unilever would…

Pugh, who stepped down as chief before the pandemic, seemed sure the company would emerge from Covid as a winner.  On a podcast last February, he said:…

Next is cutting sick pay for unvaccinated workers who must isolate after being exposed to Covid.  The retail giant said it was an “emotive topic” but had…