Can Marks & Spencer’s TikTok star help it ‘dump the frump’? Retail Marks & Spencer will face shareholders on Wednesday, with hopes of presenting a lift from its breakout social media star, Kathryn Turner, writes Felix Armstrong. Ditch the fake blood and vampire fangs: Britain’s viral Halloween costume this year featured a white shirt, a blue sweater vest and a blonde wig. Kathryn Turner, Marks & Spencer’s [...]
Just one country remains in Tesco’s decades-long global retreat Retail Tesco’s sale of its Czech and Slovak businesses is the latest step in its long retreat from a once-sprawling global presence. Felix Armstrong traces this journey Tesco’s hold on the British grocery market is unmatched. Holding a towering 27.8 per cent market share across more than 3,600 shops, the supermarket chain is a fixture on [...]
Everest Announces Agreement to Sell Chile Insurance Operations to AIG Business Wire Completes Sale of Colombia Insurance Business, Advancing Planned Exit from Commercial Retail Insurance
‘Tech carnage’: AI stocks plunge as investors spooked by gloomy earnings October 30, 2026 The global tech sell-off deepened on Friday after a string of heavily disappointing earnings revived fears over the pace and scale of AI spending. The Nasdaq Composite Index plunged 2.2 per cent at the open on Friday after a $500bn rout in Google-owner Alphabet’s shares on Thursday. Roughly $3 trillion has been wiped off the [...]
DNA Payments Partners With Zeal to Launch Loyalty and Real-time Customer Insights Service in the UK October 30, 2026 DNA Payments, one of the UK’s fastest-growing payment providers, has begun piloting a new loyalty programme for select UK merchants, in partnership with Zeal, the data and loyalty layer for card machines. This service lets participating merchants turn each transaction into an identified customer interaction, with fast, simple setup. Zeal’s functionality is designed to help [...]
Tesco retreats from Europe with £1.5bn sale of Czech and Slovak divisions October 30, 2026 Tesco has agreed to sell its businesses in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to a Dutch supermarket giant in a billion-pound deal. The UK’s largest grocer said today it would sell its operations in the two European countries to Ahold Delhaize in a deal worth €1.7bn (£1.5bn), in what marks the company’s latest retreat from [...]
Britain’s oldest brewery unveils £15m plan to move to new site October 29, 2026 Britain’s oldest brewery is to sell off land and move to a new site, in a £15m investment plan that seeks to safeguard the future of its operations. Shepherd Neame, which is based in Faversham, Kent where it has been brewing ale since the 17th century, intends to put much of its existing footprint in [...]
Poundland on brink of collapse as it files notice to appoint administrators October 29, 2026 Poundland is teetering on the edge of collapse after its directors filed a notice of intent to appoint administrators, in a move that puts the future of its thousands of workers in doubt. The company made the filing to the High Court on Thursday, suggesting that AlixPartners, its administrators, could be formally called in to [...]
TradeStation Europe Expands Options Capability, Including Extended-Hours Trading October 29, 2026 Expanded intraday and options trading capability, combined with lower options and equities commissions across the Netherlands and the EEA
AB InBev Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results October 29, 2026 Solid top- and bottom-line performance with volume growth, revenue up 4.9% and Underlying EPS up 22%