Guy Taylor

Plans for expansion include launches in Canada and El Salvador this summer and a global rollout of more than 700 new franchise stores by the end of the decade

Design house is latest corporate heavyweight to water down climate targets, responding to pressure from stock market investors and a changing political tide

Lewis Morgan is taking Reiss and Kristian Edgerton to the High Court, claiming that he was removed from the sportswear brand in ‘abusive circumstances’

Weekly rise of 22% in discount retail chain’s heavily shorted shares causes paper losses of about £30m for fund investors

Amid rising competition and costs being cheap is no longer enough but most analysts still believe the discount era is far from over

The company that introduced the sugar cube to Britain is set to be taken over by an American rival

An accounting scandal and a series of bad investments have turned the former star of the travel retail group into a weight around its neck

The online retailer, mired in a spat with Mike Ashley, narrowed its annual loss but the shares declined amid a drop in revenues

The online retailer posted a 16.1 per cent profit rise, defying market uncertainty and helped by a jump in TV sales ahead of the World Cup

The Unilever ice cream spin-out, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, Wall’s and Cornetto, says it can turn weight-loss drugs to its advantage but short-sellers are circling