Retail Sector
- Record numbers hit local high streets for Small Business Saturday
- Should retailers be banking on the concept store?
- Sainsbury’s mulls offers for £1.9bn mortgage book
- New Look appoints Nigel Oddy as new CEO
- Kate Spade CEO resigns
- 2020 retail predictions
- Businesses are sitting on £115bn and waiting to splurge
- Dixons Carphone profits drop 60% in half-year results
- Ocado sees sales slow in Q4
- Homebase rated ‘worst’ online retailer in the UK for 2019
Accountancy Today
- Accountant who misled Pensions Regulator to appear in court
- ACCA announces new council
- FRC’s Josephine Jackson joins IAASB Board
- HMRC entering into fewer plea bargain agreements with taxpayers
- Dains acquires Birmingham city centre practice
- Businesses are sitting on £115bn and waiting to splurge
- Duff & Phelps appoints Paul Reeves as Managing Director
- M&C Saatchi faces further trouble after PwC investigation
- R&D tax relief claims: Qualifying costs, dividends and expenses
- Dealing with xenophobia in the workplace
Jewellery Focus
- Lark & Berry launch collaboration with Alicia Agneson
- Why Vicenzaoro is the ‘innovation hub’ for the entire jewellery supply chain
- Small business owners dip into personal wealth to survive? Of course they do
- Purely Diamonds releases diamond-encrusted Christmas jumper
- Watches of Switzerland reports 112% increase in profit before tax
- Cheshire jewellers raided in burglary
- The Incorporation of Goldsmiths appoints Ebba Goring as new director
- Panerai launches Harrods pop-up
- Vicenzaoro January 2020: Where Jewellery begins
- Innovative ways to bring people into your jewellery store
Hotel Owner
- Pan Pacific Hotels Group to open first London hotel next year
- Three tips to protect your guests and your brand
- Accor announces opening of two Leicester hotels
- Hotel Riviera receives prestigious Rose 2019 award
- Securing guest data – the ongoing efforts of GDPR
- Hilton Garden Inn appoints Anthony Duggan as general manager
- Businesses are sitting on £115bn and waiting to splurge
- The Gyle hotel opens at Kings Cross
- Bespoke Hotels acquires Dalmunzie Castle
- RBH signs pledge backing positive mental health in the workplace
Funeral Service Times
- Aubrey Kirkham appoints third generation family member
- Co-operative Funeralcare launches Christmas initiative
- New online funeral planning service launches
- World’s first human composting funeral home set to open in 2021
- Avalon Funeral Plans launches bespoke partnership programme
- Goodwins Funeral Directors places application for new Gloucester branch
- One in 10 Brits considering live-streaming their funeral, study finds
- 14 million Brits risk taking last requests to the grave
- Avalon Funeral Plans announced as ‘Best Funeral Plan Provider’
- New Forest District Council awards J & L Sturney Funeral Directors gold
Pet Gazette
- Veterinary Group launches Pawsome Pets Christmas Appeal
- Medivet announces first dog blood donor day in West Sussex
- BVA urges owners to ‘pet-proof’ festive food this Christmas
- Businesses are sitting on £115bn and waiting to splurge
- Broadreach Nature appoints new UK and international sales director
- Small business owners dip into personal wealth to survive? Of course they do
- Five newly confirmed cases of Alabama Rot
- Scottish SPCA warns against giving pets this Christmas
- Sainsbury’s trials in-store ‘Pet Hubs’
- Want to know who will win the election? Watch the pound
Catering Today
- Restaurant owner fined for ‘breaching’ duty of care
- TGI Friday’s reports rise in sales
- Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall closes
- Spanish restaurant operator Ultracomida to open fourth site in Wales
- Businesses are sitting on £115bn and waiting to splurge
- Fuller’s revenues and profits jump in half-year results
- Cheers to that: Five drink trends you need to know about in 2020
- Amazon’s Deliveroo deal poses ‘real risk’ to food delivery market
- Elmbank Hotel appoints Mike Cummings as head chef
- Small business owners dip into personal wealth to survive? Of course they do
Estate Agency Now
- Belvoir Group announces acquisition of Lovelles
- Bristol estate agent expelled from TPO owing landlord £5,200
- Election results will not change ‘fundamentals’ of housing market, says Zoopla
- Businesses are sitting on £115bn and waiting to splurge
- Lettings agent My Property Box announces merger with Sandersons Lettings
- ‘Social letting agency’ opens its doors
- UK housing market ‘on hold’ as it awaits election result, says RICS
- Purplebricks reports double digit revenue growth in half-year results
- Housesimple extends its offering to the Midlands
- How the estate agency is changing and how you can get ahead of it