Wagon Wheels maker Burton's Biscuit Company has sold its chocolate manufacturing assets in Wirral, Merseyside, to Swiss chocolate firm Barry Callebaut for an undisclosed sum. The sale by the confectioner, whose brands also include Maryland...[...]

Official statistics show inflation rose to 2.7% in August, up from 2.5% in July.Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose to 2.7% in August, compared to 2.5% in...[...]

Orla Kiely goes bust with five stores closed and staff left without three weeks of payThe Orla Kiely chain, famous for its floral designs as worn by Kate Middleton, Alexa Chung and Sarah Jessica Parker, has suddenly folded, closing two stores in...[...]

The industry is on the brink of the biggest revolution since the 1930sAirbus thought it was about to make aviation history. When the company’s battery-powered E-Fan aircraft lifted into the air with barely a sound on a summer day in 2015, a cheer...[...]

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is referring the proposed merger between Sainsbury's and Asda for a further "in-depth investigation".The CMA confirmed on Wednesday, having completed its Phase 1 investigation into the proposed merger, [...]

Some mobile phone companies have charged customers almost half a billion pounds for handsets which they already own, according to Citizens Advice. It says four million people on deals with EE, Three and Vodafone have paid an extra £490m after their...[...]

After a distressing incident at home, Craig Hill decided to make an important life changeHe'd just delivered a confident, polished pitch to the "dragons", some of the most experienced and successful entrepreneurs in the...[...]

Middle-class families are being hounded by the taxman for thousands of pounds after accidentally falling foul of complex child benefit rules, Money Mail can reveal.In the worst cases, parents have been sent threatening demands after wrongly...[...]

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Teis Jensen"It is clear that Danske Bank has failed to live up to its responsibility in the case of possible money laundering in Estonia. I deeply regret this," Borgen said in a statement which detailed failings in...[...]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a nice guy who doesn't know how to run a car company, says Bob Lutz, former vice chairman of General Motors."They will never make money on the Model 3 because the cost is way too high. He's got 9,000 people in that...[...]

BMW, Daimler and the Volkswagen group are being investigated over collusion on the development of car emission control systems. The EU Commission said on Tuesday that it had received information the German carmakers, along with VW's Audi and Porsche [...]

Tesla Inc. is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the matter. Federal prosecutors opened a fraud investigation...[...]

Car giant BMW will shut its main British manufacturing factory immediately after Brexit day next year for several weeks, because of the rising risk of a "no-deal" divorce, Sky News has learned. The famous Mini plant in Oxford will not produce cars...[...]

Economists are forecasting August inflation data to come in at 2.4%, down from 2.5% in July.Consensus estimates predict the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Consumer Prices Index (CPI) of inflation will have dropped to 2.4% for...[...]

UK and US think tanks looking into the best form for a free-trade pact between the countries say that a new deal could potentially become the basis for bilateral agreements worldwide. Experts from 11 think tanks in both countries contributed to a...[...]