Julia Kollewe
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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Free food and threats to bonuses: UK finance and tech firms fight working from home
Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of week in office → Read More
Primark predicts bigger profits after strong Barbie T-shirt sales and price rises
Cargo shorts and boho dresses also sell well as shoppers visit big city stores despite bad weather → Read More
Wegovy: the slimming drug that keeps Denmark’s economy growing
Novo Nordisk, the maker of the blockbuster obesity injection, has singlehandedly saved the country from recession → Read More
Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk becomes Europe’s most valuable firm
Launch of weight-loss drug in UK helps Danish firm to market value of $428bn → Read More
Brexit: Dover port to reclaim land from sea to help avoid long queues
Boss says move needed to avoid ‘unacceptable’ delays as new controls threaten more disruption → Read More
Former Covid medical officer Van-Tam takes role at vaccine maker Moderna
One of UK’s public faces of pandemic, ‘JVT’ was known for football-related metaphors in No 10 briefings → Read More
More women on UK boards but number of female bosses flatlines
Proportion of women on boards of 585 FTSE all-share listed companies rises from 36% to 40%, data shows → Read More
Arm co-founder partly blames ‘Brexit idiocy’ for US flotation
Hermann Hauser says UK chip designer rules could seek secondary listing in London later → Read More
UK house prices rise for first time in eight months
Nationwide expert hails ‘tentative signs of a recovery’ as buyers’ confidence improves → Read More
More fruit and veg shortages to come as weather in UK and Spain hits crops
Record heat in southern Europe and chilly start to British growing season spell more misery for shoppers → Read More
UK and Europe are falling behind US and China in biotech, says AstraZeneca boss
Pascal Soriot says decline in startups across Europe differs markedly from ‘explosion’ of firms and clinical trials in China → Read More
New CBI boss says she is ‘profoundly sorry’ to women let down by group
Rain Newton-Smith’s tweets came on day she became director general at Confederation of British Industry → Read More
New CBI boss says she is ‘profoundly sorry’ to women let down by business group – as it happened
As Rain Newton-Smith takes over as CBI director general, the boss of drugmaker GSK calls claims around CBI ‘absolutely shocking’ and ‘repulsive’ → Read More
Primark sales climb as prices rise and city centre stores boom
Retailer will extend online click & collect service to London and expand into Texas after strong results → Read More
Duke of Westminster’s property firm pays £50m dividend despite profits drop
Boss of Grosvenor, which owns swathes of Mayfair and Belgravia, warns of ‘more pain’ for commercial property market → Read More
AstraZeneca overtakes Pfizer as crunch week for UK pharma looms
Driven by a revamped drug portfolio, AstraZeneca is expected to report revenues of $10.7bn in its latest quarterly results → Read More
Royal Mail agrees upon pay deal with postal workers’ union
Agreement includes a 10% salary increase and a one-off lump sum of £500 for all CWU-grade employees → Read More
CBI needs an outsider to lead it through crisis, says former director
Andrew Sentance says lobby group needs ‘major shake-up’ as insurance brokers’ body quits membership → Read More
Samsung to cut chip production as profits plunge by 96%
Sales fall at world’s biggest memory chip maker amid decline in global demand for semiconductors → Read More
UK house prices rise again in March; Tui says Easter and summer bookings strong – business live
House prices rise for third month in a row as annual rate slows to lowest in three and a half years → Read More