The outlook for the rest of the year is also subdued, with the Office for Budget Responsibility estimating that growth for 2025 as a whole will come in at just 1 per cent, roughly in line with last ...

One point worth bearing in mind, however, is that although Next’s chief executive Simon Wolfson has consistently displayed uncanny strategic foresight in an industry which, by its very nature, is ...

Berkeley has committed to at least £2bn of shareholder returns over the decade to 2035, equivalent to 57 per cent of its current market cap. Of this, only £640mn is to be distributed between now and ...

Over the past five years, the FTSE 100 giant has sold off smaller, less profitable operations and doubled down on live B2B events. Last year’s £1.2bn acquisition of Ascential brought in marquee ...