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UK retailers to help fight ‘abhorrent’ modern slavery in clothing industry

Some of the biggest names in the British high street and online shopping have agreed to support moves to stop modern slavery in the...

Majority of small business owners believe Brexit ‘will have negative impact’

More than 60% of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland small business owners believe Brexit will negatively affect their company’s future. According to new data...

Update: France frees Ryanair jet after tarmac standoff over subsidy

Update: 3.14pm Ryanair has paid 525,000 euros (£457,000) in subsidies back to French authorities to end a tarmac standoff that forced 149 passengers to disembark...

Dyson scores European courts victory over vacuum cleaners energy labellin

Dyson has won a battle with the European courts over energy labelling laws for vacuum cleaners after the General Court upheld its argument that...

High street turmoil as thousands of UK shops close in first half of year

High street shops in the UK closed at a rate of around 14 a day in the first half of the year, while openings...

UK extradites fugitive tycoon to Croatia

UK authorities have extradited Ivica Todoric, the founder of a deeply indebted food and retail company, to Croatia. A year after Todoric was detained in...

John Lewis chairman to stand down

The John Lewis Partnership has announced that chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield is to step down in 2020. The group, which also owns Waitrose, has begun...

Facebook removes 115 ‘suspicious’ accounts as voting begins in US midterms

Facebook says it has removed 115 accounts from the site and Instagram for suspected “co-ordinated inauthentic behavior” as voting begins in the US midterm...

Lloyds to axe more than 6,000 jobs in digital push

Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it is to axe 6,240 jobs as part of a digital overhaul. The British high-street lender said that as part...

Primark sales dampened by bad weather in eurozone

Like-for-like sales at Primark fell in the year to September as bad weather weighed on trading in Europe. The budget fashion retailer, which is owned...

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