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  • Asos chair Ian Dyson to take on role as Currys chair

    May 19, 2022

    Currys has announced Asos chair Ian Dyson will join the company as chair of the electronics retailer. Dyson will succeed Ian Livingston by joining the board as chair on 8 September, when Livingston will step down from the board. The Asos chair has decades of experience of retail and leisure, including a five-year stint as [...]

  • Young’s to swap salmon and chicken for cheaper alternatives 

    May 19, 2022

    Pub chain Young’s has said it is prepared to switch pricier menu staples for cheaper alternatives as inflation stands at a 40-year high. Speaking to CityA.M., Young’s CEO Patrick Dardis said the company had switched salmon for fresh trout after steep price increases. “Pork is cheaper than chicken and so we have the ability to [...]

  • Marks & Spencer’s CFO urges Chancellor Rishi Sunak to firmly reject online sales tax 

    May 19, 2022

    Marks and Spencer has reportedly warned the Government that an online sales tax would do more harm than good for the high street. In February, the Government launched a consultation into possibilities for an online sales tax to ease the business rates burden on high street stores. In a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, reportedly [...]

  • Pubs to rake in bank holiday sales with 90m pint prediction

    May 19, 2022

    Pubs will pocket some £105m in pint sales from the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday as millions of Brits flood to beer gardens to make the most of the extended weekend.  Around 90m pints are to be sold to thirsty punters, according to the British Beer and Pub Association’s (BBPA) forecast. Pubs are eagerly hoping for [...]

  • Social animals: Marston’s boss insists Brits’ thirst for the pub will not dry up despite historic inflation

    May 18, 2022

    Brits will continue to be “social animals” at the pub, despite inflation hitting a 40-year high, the boss of Marston’s has said. “Having been locked up for two-three years, we are even more social animals,” Andrew Andrea insisted. The pub boss was optimistic that, despite increasing cost of living concerns, punters would continue to knock [...]

  • Katy Perry is the new face of Just Eat Takeaway

    May 18, 2022

    Popstar Katy Perry has been revealed as the new face of Just Eat Takeaway, stepping into Snoop Dogg’s shoes. In a new advert for the food delivery firm, the US singer has remixed the company’s ‘Did Somebody Say… Just Eat’ jingle. “Working with Just Eat was a really fun and natural experience. Coincidentally most of [...]

  • High street bosses plead for crisis cash to help with dramatic energy bill hikes

    May 18, 2022

    High street businesses have called for emergency help over skyrocketing energy bills, as bosses warn a cocktail of cost pressures threaten to subdue their pandemic recovery. Without government action, historic levels of inflation and dramatic energy bill rises pose a risk to the beauty sector’s recovery, the British Beauty Council has said. The industry group [...]

  • Brexit red tape onslaught deepens as UK economy loses £47bn because businesses drown in cross-border tax complexities

    May 18, 2022

    Cross-border tax complexities cost the UK economy £47.6bn in lost revenue last year, an average revenue loss of 16 per cent on total EU exports, according to fresh industry data shared with City A.M. this morning. The stresses of navigating complex regulations post-Brexit continues to hold back growth for UK exporters, and is causing significant [...]

  • Morrisons rescue deal for McColl’s totalled £182m

    May 18, 2022

    Grocer Morrisons coughed up some £182m to snap up beleaguered convenience store operator McColl’s, defeating a rival bid from Asda owners the Issa brothers. The newsagent chain’s equity value was worth around £3m earlier this month while senior creditors were owed some £160m, documents from administrators PwC revealed. While the Issa’s EG Group had offered [...]

  • All Bar One and O’Neills owner struggles to drive sales as inflation bites

    May 18, 2022

    All Bar One and O'Neills owner Mitchells & Butlers feels the sting of inflation, with like-for-like sales growth of one per cent over the first half of the year compared to 2019 figures.

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