Chemify Appoints Rima Alameddine to Its Board of Directors October 22, 2026 Former IonQ Chief Revenue Officer and NVIDIA enterprise sales leader joins as independent non-executive director as Chemify scales chemputation worldwide
Cognitive Credit Announces $40 Million Strategic Growth Investment Led by Summit Partners to Scale Specialist Data and AI for Global Credit Markets October 22, 2026 Cognitive Credit, the leading provider of corporate credit data, analytics, and AI technology, today announced the completion of a $40 million strategic growth investment led by Summit Partners, with continued participation from ETFS Capital. Cognitive Credit’s suite of AI-powered workflow tools, built on a foundation of verified data, are purpose-built to help credit teams work [...]
Budget 2026: Sainsbury’s boss urges Labour to tackle Neets crisis October 22, 2026 The boss of Sainsbury’s has urged the government to tackle the UK’s youth unemployment crisis, as he hit out at previous hikes to the cost of hiring workers. Simon Roberts, chief executive of the UK’s second-largest grocer, said John Healey must “focus on doing the right thing for young people” at next week’s Budget. In [...]
Landsec’s blocked £.5bn shopping centre plan leaves Lewisham in the worst of all worlds October 22, 2026 Lewisham’s £1.5bn shopping centre redevelopment freeze, caused by a breakdown between Landsec and the Council, has left residents, traders, and the town centre stranded in uncertainty, says Sergiy Lesyk Lewisham shows how a council can lose a £1.5bn scheme and gain nothing. Landsec, the property company that has owned Lewisham Shopping Centre for more than [...]
Bregal Milestone Backs Nethive With Majority Growth Investment and JoyComm Acquisition October 22, 2026 Partnership to support Nethive’s next phase of growth as a leading cybersecurity services and software platform
Can wine school teach me to talk like a sommelier? October 22, 2026 Could a day spent learning to tell your Pinots from your plonks at London’s WSET turn the average wine-lover into a bona fide wine connoisseur? Carys Sharkey finds out The UK’s wine sector is going through a period of chop and change. The UK is still the second largest importer of wine in the world, [...]
Healey: I want to help bloody-minded founders October 22, 2026 John Healey has pledged to devote next week’s Budget to “bloody-minded entrepreneurs”, acknowledging small and fast-growing businesses have been “under pressure” from a barrage of fresh taxes and regulation. The Chancellor said he would clamp down on the “cost of business” as well as on the cost of living, promising to patch up relations with [...]
Sainsbury’s shares slide as ‘tough’ conditions slow growth October 22, 2026 Shares in Sainsbury’s tumbled after the supermarket giant posted slowing sales growth and warned that shoppers are facing “tough” cost-of-living pressures. The UK’s second-largest supermarket saw its stock slide by nearly four per cent in early trading to 346p. This came despite the firm lifting the lower end of its full-year profit target from £965m [...]
IOC’s abdication over Russia is causing much angst as clock ticks down to LA28 Olympics October 22, 2026 It’s baffling that sport’s global leaders are still prevaricating over Russia as the LA28 Olympics and Paralympics draw ever nearer, says Ed Warner. To Brentford FC’s Gtech Community Stadium last week for the second outing of The NEDwork, a gathering of chairs and non-executive directors from across Great Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic governing bodies. Russia’s [...]
TA to Invest in MedEnvision in Partnership With Its Founders, Management and Smile Invest October 22, 2026 MedEnvision (www.medenvision.com), a Belgian medtech company that helps orthopaedic surgical teams work more efficiently in the operating theatre, announces, together with its founders, management and current financial partner Smile Invest, a new strategic partnership with TA Associates (“TA”), a leading global private equity firm. TA’s investment will support MedEnvision’s long-term growth strategy, centred on continued [...]