Astrazeneca: Pharma giant splashes the cash to settle two legal claims PHARMA Pharma giant AstraZeneca has agreed to pay out $425m in a settlement today after facing multiple claims from litigators that two of its stomach acid drugs caused kidney injuries.
All night long: Greggs feels benefit of evening opening hours HOSPITALITY Sausage rolls are proving a hit long into the evening as high street baker's longer opening hours begin to pay off
Microsoft chief says unfair practices by Google led to search engine dominance Google Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has said unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine and in turn thwarted his own company’s rival programme, Bing. He gave evidence in a packed Washington DC courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company Alphabet. The Justice Department [...]
Food inflation lowest level since last August, as supermarket price wars pay off October 3, 2023 The rate at which food prices increase has fallen to 9.9 per cent in September, down from 11.5 per cent the prior month, and the lowest level since last August, in the latest signal that cost of living pressures customers face at the till are beginning to ease. Shop price annual inflation is now also [...]
The Notebook: Andy Silvester on why John Lewis’s next boss would do well to take a shift on the tills October 3, 2023 Where the City’s movers and shakers get a few things off their chest. Today, it’s our editor Andy Silvester with the pen Whoever replaces White would do well to take a shift on the tills Driving alongside Lake Bala, on the edges of Snowdonia, this intrepid Londoner got a shock at the weekend: an entrance [...]
Let’s ditch grand, expensive projects like HS2 and opt for urgent smaller ones October 3, 2023 Even Yes, Minister would have struggled to come up with this one. A major infrastructure project, to Manchester, set to be cancelled, in Manchester, during the government’s party conference. Yet Rishi Sunak could still grasp victory from the jaws of defeat if, as expected, he ditches HS2.Let’s be clear: this is a right sorry mess. [...]
Time to bolster talent pipeline to make UK a tech superpower in age of AI October 3, 2023 The UK is losing over £1.5bn per year to skill shortages and to become a world leader in tech and AI, we must invest in training the future workforce.
M&A is finally finding a way out of last year’s doldrums as pace of deals picks up October 3, 2023 There are signs of M&A green shoots with pace of dealmaking picking up after rising interest rates, market volatility and geopolitical tensions
Stop criticising Gen Z and learn how to capture attention of distracted generation October 3, 2023 Young people today discern at high speed what they like and what they don't so it's up to brands to win over this consumer powerhouse of a generation
Government to review UK regulators in hunt for post-Brexit ‘advantages’ October 2, 2023 The government has committed to review the UK’s sprawling regulatory system today in a bid to strip back red tape and find “post-Brexit regulatory advantages”. In a statement today, business secretary Kemi Badenoch said the government would kick off an “in-depth review” of how regulators work in the UK. The aim of the new deep [...]