New Pay As You Grow facility will enable more flexible repayments on Bounce Back...
The British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank, today announces further details of Pay As You Grow, which helps UK smaller businesses that...
Boohoo buys Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton
Online fashion retailer Boohoo has bought Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burtons for £25.2million. Around 260 jobs, mainly head office roles, will be saved as...
£7bn spent by UK consumers with local independent businesses in 2020
UK consumers spent over an estimated £7.2bn supporting local independent business in 2020, new data from Tyl by NatWest reveals.
The survey, which explored consumers’ pandemic purchasing...
The Garden Trading Company acquired by premium British brand Joules in £12.5m deal
Law firm BDB Pitmans has acted in the sale of Oxfordshire-based The Garden Trading Company Limited (“Garden Trading”) to the Joules Group plc (“Joules”).
Joules,...
Retail industry sees entrepreneurial boom from under-25s
GoDaddy has released new research which finds that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a surge in young people starting their own retail businesses in...
Retailers expect consumers to show them the love this ‘virtual’ Valentine’s Day
Retailers are feeling the love in the run up to Valentine’s Day, with two fifths (41 per cent) expecting to see a sales boost,...
Virgin Experience Days acquires leading US experience gift provider Cloud 9 Living in expansion...
UK gift experience provider Virgin Experience Days will acquire the whole of Cloud 9 Living’s US operations.
The two brands are leaders in their domestic...
Buy Now, Pay Later provider Zip arrives in the UK
Buy Now, Pay Later provider Zip has announced its UK arrival with Homebase one of its first major brand partners – the first and...
Online Retail Maintains Strong Start to the Year as February Sales Remain High
With the strict lockdown still in place, online retail sales held strong in February, rising by +69.5% Year-on-Year (YoY). That’s according to the latest...
Operations Experience provider, parcelLab, debuts in FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies
parcelLab, global Operations Experience leader, has been named by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies.
Headquartered in Munich and with offices...
