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UK’s economic recovery from Covid stalled in June amid ‘pingdemic’ (The Guardian)

CEOs told to ‘think before they tweet’ after Just Eat spat with Uber (The Guardian)

Car production hit by ‘pingdemic’ and global chip shortage (BBC)

Worker shortages bite as UK business activity stalls in July (CityAM)

CEO Secrets: ‘Four-day weeks are good for business’ (BBC)

Unilever warns prices will rise due to surge in raw material costs (The Guardian)

Government calls for ‘gradual return’ to offices over summer after 19 July (CityAM)

More clarity in return to work guidance would help firms avoid liability (The Guardian)

Covid safety guidance to firms in England criticised as ‘recipe for chaos’ (The Guardian)

Vauxhall owner Stellantis to invest €30bn in electric vehicles (BBC)

UK growth slows as computer chip shortage hits carmaking (The Guardian)

Private equity buying spree hits new record as British firms targeted (The Guardian)

Covid: UK’s furlough scheme starts to wind down (BBC)

Hospitality industry warns of looming crisis as staff forced to isolate (The Guardian)

Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland (The Guardian)

Elon Musk’s space broadband service Starlink to go public once revenue is ‘predictable’ (CityAM)

Lego develops first bricks made from recycled plastic bottles (The Guardian)

Inflation fears grow as UK factory prices surge (BBC)

Cashless society draws closer with only one in six payments now in cash (The Guardian)

Eviction ban on firms behind on rent is extended by nine months (BBC)

‘I’ll work 100-hour weeks to clear our Covid debt’ (BBC)

Brewdog boss vows to learn after ‘toxic culture’ criticism (BBC)

Where have all the UK workers gone? (BBC)

UK economy grows for third month in a row as Covid controls ease (The Guardian)

Swap Bounce Back debt for employee equity, say industry experts (Smallbusiness)

UK firms set to slash office space in pivot to hybrid work (CityAM)

Working from home: Call to ban out-of-hours emails from bosses (BBC)

UK business optimism hits five-year high, so why has London slipped? (CityAM)

UK not on course for return to 1970s inflation, says Bank official (The Guardian)

Covid: Small businesses’ account delays are over, insist banks (BBC)

Bytedance CEO stands aside to do more ‘daydreaming’ about the future (The Guardian)

UK inflation more than doubles in April as energy prices increase (The Guardian)

Musk’s UK visit fuels speculation a Britain-based Tesla plant is on the cards (CityAM)

Amazon set to hire 10,000 UK workers (BBC)

Along with Abba, double-digit inflation is a thing of the past (The Guardian)

Fund management ‘irretrievably broken’, says star investor (The Guardian)

UK car sales rebound after ‘one of darkest years in automotive history’ (The Guardian)

No full-time return to the office for over a million (BBC)

UK service sector growth hits seven-year high (BBC)

Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house (The Guardian)

One in seven shops lie empty after lockdown (BBC)

Restaurants struggle to find staff ahead of reopening (BBC)

Consumer confidence stalls amid fears of new variants and the cost of coronavirus (CityAM)

Covid costs push government borrowing to highest since WW2 (BBC)

Billionaire Sir James Dyson moves residency back to the UK (BBC)

Banks flee the City post-Brexit taking more than £900bn in assets with them (CityAM)

Hammerson: Shopping centre giant slashes rents in revival bid (BBC)

Caterpillars in court as M&S sues Aldi over Colin cake ‘lookalike’ (The Guardian)

Brexit: EU online deliveries to UK have halved (CityAM)

UK retailers join pubs and clubs in rejecting Covid-status certificates (The Guardian)

JP Morgan boss plans for ‘significantly’ less office space (BBC)

Bet365 boss earns £469m in a single year (BBC)

Deliveroo shares slump by 26% on London stock market debut (The Guardian)

UK economy bouncing back stronger than expected amid savings boom (The Guardian)

Nationwide office staff can work anywhere in UK when lockdown ends (The Guardian)

‘I can’t see myself going back to a five-day week’ (BBC)

Big investors shun Deliveroo over workers’ rights (BBC)

Number of small businesses in distress triple pre-Covid level (Smallbusiness)

Britain ‘heading for new era of austerity’, thinktank warns (The Guardian)

Economic outlook ‘unusually uncertain’ despite ‘rapid’ vaccine rollout (BBC)

Where to get your small business Restart Grant worth up to £18,000 (Smallbusiness)

Global chief executives say UK market is more attractive after Brexit (CityAM)

UK exports to European Union drop 40% in January (BBC)

Former Deliveroo executives launch 10-minute grocery delivery app in London (CityAM)

Amazon Fresh opens first ‘till-less’ grocery store in UK (The Guardian)

Budget 2021: key points at a glance (The Guardian)

Rishi Sunak eyes hiking corporation tax even higher to 25% (Smallbusiness)

Majority of work from home job listings now ‘temporarily remote’, as return to office nears (CityAM)

HMRC letters question Covid self-employment support grant claims (BBC)

Slash business rates to save High Street, says Next boss (BBC)

UK retail sales plunge as government borrows £8.8bn (The Guardian)

Uber drivers are workers not self-employed, Supreme Court rules (BBC)

Retailers call for more Covid help after £22bn loss in non-food sales (The Guardian)

CoraQuest board game is crowdfunding hit for father and daughter (The Guardian)

UK economy suffered record annual slump in 2020 (BBC)

Forget Frankfurt and Paris, says Barclays boss (BBC)

Brexit: 71 pages of paperwork for 1 lorry of fish (BBC)

SME owners hold £1.2bn of personal liabilities linked to Covid-19 loans (Smallbusiness)

Retail is at death’s door – and tinkering with business rates won’t save it (The Guardian)

UK firms plan to shift across Channel after Brexit chaos (The Guardian)

UK applying to join Asia-Pacific free trade pact CPTPP (BBC)

Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU (BBC)

‘A Brexit nightmare’: the British businesses being pushed to breaking point (The Guardian)

Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told (The Guardian)

Insurers must pay many small firms for Covid lockdown losses (BBC)

Back to work Monday? Perhaps a four day week is good for all of us (CityAM)

Shock Brexit charges are hurting us, say small British businesses (The Guardian)

Marston’s boss calls for extra support as pub chain expects sites to be closed until March (CityAM)

Brexit: Firms warn of problems as new EU trade rules kick in (BBC)

UK shops call for more help as footfall drops 43% in 2020 (The Guardian)

UK high street lost 177,000 jobs in 2020, study finds

Small business calls for multibillion-pound Covid-19 support package

Why did these people start businesses in a pandemic?

Royal Mail delays blamed on ‘exceptional’ volumes of post

Brexit stockpiling: ‘I can’t get my wine out of the EU’

Treasury eyes hitting self-employed gig workers with VAT charge

Barclays issues scam warning to SMEs ahead of Brexit

Boom in websites supporting local UK shops amid Covid lockdowns

Don’t save the high street – change it completely, says retail guru Mary Portas

New jobs in UK hospitality sector ‘non-existent’

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