Getty ImagesRetail sales fell last month as shoppers held back on spending ahead of the Budget, according to official figures.Sales volumes fell by 0.7% in October, the Office for ...

FordFord has announced it will cut 800 jobs in the UK over the next three years.The move is part of a major restructuring programme, which will see 4,000 posts ...

Nissan has said it will lay off thousands of workers as it slashes global production to tackle a drop in sales in China and the US.The Japanese car making ...

Getty ImagesThe boss of McDonald's has apologised to customers hit by an E. coli outbreak in the US linked to the chain's Quarter Pounders, a new setback for the ...

Boohoo is planning a major restructure that could see the break-up of the struggling online fashion firm whose brands include Debenhams, Karen Millen and PrettyLittleThing.The company said it was ...

eBay will clamp down on the sale of e-bikes and e-bike batteries in the UK from 31 October, the BBC has learned.The firm says that only "eligible business sellers" ...

Toyota is pushing back the start date for electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing in the US, as global demand for battery-powered cars continues to soften. The Japanese motor industry giant ...

Big taxes will be imposed on imports of electric vehicles from China to the EU after the majority of member states backed the plans.The move to introduce tariffs aims ...

Rising sales at its Waitrose supermarkets have helped the John Lewis Partnership to nearly halve its losses over the first half of the year.The partnership - which includes the ...

In the UK it is a similar picture at the Seed Co-operative, a business that is owned and run by its members.Due to what it says is "exceptional demand", ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Nvidia says its revenues for the three months to the end of July more than doubled compared to a year earlier, hitting a record ...

A British Foreign Office official who worked on counter terrorism has resigned in protest at arms sales to Israel, saying the UK government “may be complicit in war crimes”.Mark ...