The UK government announced today an expansion of the higher apprenticeships scheme to include sectors such as aviation, low carbon engineering, legal services and space engineering.…
The UK’s dwindling stocks of affordable housing has often been called a crisis. But in the report Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020 the Joseph…
Canadian consultancy Genivar Inc (TSE:GNV) has sealed a GBP278m (USD429.3m/EUR343.9m) deal to buy and delist UK engineering and management advisory services provider WSP Group Plc (LON:WSH),…
British interdealer broker ICAP Plc (LON:IAP) said it had reached an agreement to buy company equity exchange PLUS Stock Exchange plc (PLUS-SX) from its parent Plus…
PLUS Markets Group plc (LSE:PMK), a British stock exchange for smaller firms, announced today that it is planning to close. A formal sale process was launched…
The Bank of England has maintained UK interest rates at 0.5% and also announced yesterday that it will not be extending its programme of quantitative easing…
German Reimann family’s JAB Holdings BV said on Thursday it had sold to institutional investors 36m shares in British consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser Group plc…
UK retailer J Sainsbury plc (LSE:SBRY) reported today a 6.8% increase in total sales for 2011 to GBP24.5bn and said that it outperformed the market and…
A demand for skilled banking staff is outstripping supply in banks within the Gulf Cooperation Council. The Gulf Cooperation Council (the political and economic alliance…
