UK Business News

Carphone Warehouse Group has won the approval of the European Union antitrust authorities, leaving the company free to go ahead with the proposed takeover of Internet service provider Tiscali UK.
The European Commission said in a statement today that the transaction would not impede competition and indeed would face stiff competition from other players in the [...]

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Shop Direct have revived the Woolworths name as part of their online shopping experience. The UK’s biggest home shopping retailer bought the brand name in February.
Woolworths.co.uk went live online on Thursday, offering consumers the opportunity to purchase over half a million products, including children’s clothes and toys, video games, cd’s, dvd’s and of course the [...]

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The UK trade union for manufacturing workers, Community has warned that Europe’s second biggest steel producer Corus is planning to cut 2,000 more jobs in the UK. The news comes only months after Corus laid off 2,500 workers at the start of the year.
The job losses are expected to include 500 in Scunthorpe and 800 [...]

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British small businesses can now, with a single click, pay all of their staff via Paypal thanks to their tie up with Kashflow, the UK’s leading web-based accounting software company.
By loading account details into the software, with the press of a button, Kashflow can pay staff whilst producing accounts which are HMRC recognised.
The fully integrated [...]

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The UK High Street greetings card company, Clinton Cards, who put it’s loss making subsidiary Birthdays into administration last month, are in talks with the administrators to buy back the profitable part of the business.
The Birthdays stores were purchased by Clinton Cards in December 2004 for £46.4million. The chain of 332 outlets failed to give [...]

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