Business

The owners of Hovis and Kingsmill are closing in on a definitive agreement to merge two of Britain's most famous grocery brands following months of talks.

Retail sales grew in June as warm weather boosted spending and day trips, official figures show.

The former owner of Poundland is lining up advisers to supervise its transition to new shareholders through a court-sanctioned process that will involve store closures and job cuts at the discount retailer.

Darren McCaffrey talks to Deann Evans, managing director for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) at ecommerce platform Shopify, about slower-than-expected sales.

TalkTalk, the telecoms and broadband group, has secured a £100m capital injection from one of its existing backers in a deal that will relieve the growing financial pressure on the company.

The head of the UK's biggest mortgage lender has said he expects two more interest rate cuts this year, making borrowing cheaper.

Welfare versus warfare: for decades, it's a question to which successive prime ministers have responded with one answer.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has kept its core interest rates on hold after seven successive cuts, citing uncertainty over the threatened US trade war escalation.

Some of the North Sea’s biggest independent oil producers are examining bids for the upstream operations of Prax Group, the energy conglomerate whose collapse has triggered the closure of one of Britain's few remaining oil refineries.

The chairman of AO, the online electrical goods retailer, has been interviewed to become the next chair of state-owned broadcaster Channel 4.