Business Matters
- Eve Sleep causing investors sleepless nights as sales to hit targets July 19, 2019Eve Sleep cut its losses by 50 per cent in the first half of the year but warned investors that the company expects to miss its annual sales targets. Read more: Eve Sleep causing investors sleepless nights as sales to hit targets
- Daily Mirror owner looks to extend Reach with purchase of rival titles July 19, 2019The owner of the Mirror, Express and Star national newspaper titles is in talks to acquire parts of the rival publisher behind the i and The Scotsman. Read more: Daily Mirror owner looks to extend Reach with purchase of rival titles
- Waitrose announces store closes as middle classes shoppers go to Lidl July 19, 2019The favourite grocer of the middle classes, Waitrose, is shutting seven more shops with the discounter Lidl swooping on three in renewed signs of the rapidly changing retail market. Read more: Waitrose announces store closes as middle classes shoppers go to Lidl
- Asos issues loses a quarter of its value overnight as sales plummet July 19, 2019Asos lost almost a quarter of its value yesterday after a bungled warehouse overhaul knocked the online retailer’s sales growth off course and prompted its third profit warning in a year. Read more: Asos issues loses a quarter of its value overnight as sales plummet
- Have smartphones replaced laptops? July 19, 2019Smartphones have become very popular over the years but are they replacing laptops and desktop computers? Find out what we think here. Read more: Have smartphones replaced laptops?
- Getting To Know You: Amina Oyagbola, Business and Management Consultant, AKMS Consulting & Founder of WISCAR July 18, 2019Business Matters spent time with Business and Management Consultant Amina Oyagbola and found out who, and what her inspirations are. Read more: Getting To Know You: Amina Oyagbola, Business and Management Consultant, AKMS Consulting & Founder of WISCAR
- Learn where to start a career that focuses on data analysis July 18, 2019If you want to be professionally successful, a good idea is to invest in data science. With the amount of information generated every day, these professionals are increasingly needed by companies, Read more: Learn where to start a career that focuses on data analysis
- Google suspends Viagogo from advertising after ‘breach of client trust’ July 18, 2019Google has today dealt a blow to controversial second-hand ticketing company Viagogo by suspending its website as an advertiser. Read more: Google suspends Viagogo from advertising after ‘breach of client trust’
- Hotel Chocolat bucks retail downturn with record sales July 18, 2019Vegan chocolate ice-lollies and billionaire sundaes have helped Hotel Chocolat to record a jump in full-year sales. Read more: Hotel Chocolat bucks retail downturn with record sales
- The Money Shop customers in line to get £18m poor performance compensation July 18, 2019A pawnbroker is preparing to set aside £18 million in compensation for customers who were sold loans they could not afford to repay. Read more: The Money Shop customers in line to get £18m poor performance compensation