Alistair Osborne

The ingredient company’s share price more than halved in three years. Did a strategic shift away from sugar lead to a £2.65 billion takeover bid?

Any attempt to set the price of food would show the chancellor doesn’t know how markets work or grasp how the government has pushed up business costs

There’s no faulting the ambition of the The Space X founder but he is asking a big price for the IPO of his company

Outraged minority investors accuse Whitehall of supporting a deal ‘that clearly harms retail shareholders’

Business as usual at BP? Another abrupt exit as chairman Albert Manifold departs

How is it possible that the crew overseeing one of Britain’s biggest companies are not only on their fourth chief executive in six years, but their third chairman?

Plot thickens as Albert Manifold hits out at ‘lies’ surrounding his removal and the company secretary emerges as a central character in the corporate drama

WH Smith is in a perilous state, with debts mounting and shares plummeting. The turnaround specialist faces a hard road ahead

The airport operator’s 3,500-metre runway project is opposed by just about all its airline customers – but there is an alternative

Business figures celebrated include the Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser, Grainger’s Helen Gordon, Sir Jon Cunliffe and businesswoman Clare Hornby