Month: June 2017
Starbucks profits surge with expansion into new markets
Noirescent/Flickr (qlmbusinessnews.com via telegraph.co.uk - - Fri, 30 June 2017) London, Uk - - Profits rose by nearly 75pc in Starbucks’s European, Middle Eastern and[more...]
Lloyds Bank to stop trading Qatari Riyals
Elliott Brown/Flickr.com (qlmbusinessnews.com via uk.reuters.com -- Fri, 30 June 2017) London, UK -- Britain's Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) said on Friday that it has stopped[more...]
Uk Mortgage approval rate hits highest level since March 2016
Bradley Gordon/Flickr (qlmbusinessnews.com via ibtimes.co.uk - - Thu, 29 June 2017) London, Uk - - Bank of England data shows mortgage approval rate hits highest[more...]
Smartphones supersede branches as almost 20m Britons log onto banking apps
(qlmbusinessnews.com via telegraph.co.uk - - Thu, 29 June 2017) London, Uk - - Almost 20m Britons banked on smartphone apps last year as mobile transactions[more...]
Tesco head office to cut 1,200 jobs
(qlmbusinessnews.com via theguardian.com - - Wed,28 June, 2017) London, Uk - - Supermarket’s move comes just a week after it said it would axe 1,100[more...]
Co-operative Bank poised to unveil £700m rescue deal
Howard Lake/Flickr (qlmbusinessnews.com via telegraph.co.uk - - Wed, 28 June 2017) London, Uk - - Co-operative Bank is poised to unveil a £700m rescue[more...]
Google fined a record €2.42bn EU for abusing internet search monopoly
EU competition chiefs have today fined internet giant Google a record 2.42 billion euros. It is for allegedly abusing its dominant position to manipulate[more...]
Bank of England to make lenders hold £11 Billion amid tightening credit rules
James Stringer/Flickr (qlmbusinessnews.com via uk.reuters.com -- Tue, 27 June 2017) London, UK -- The Bank of England tightened its controls on lending on Tuesday[more...]
Holland & Barratt sold to Russian billionaire for nearly £2 billion
(qlmbusinessnews.com via bbc.co.uk - - Mon, 26 June, 2017) London, Uk - - Holland & Barrett, the UK's biggest health food retailer, is being bought[more...]
RBS restructuring to cut hundreds of UK jobs in move to India
morebyless/flickr.com (qlmbusinessnews.com via theguardian.com - - Mon 26 June, 2017) London, Uk - - Royal Bank of Scotland is to cut 443 jobs in Britain[more...]
Dubai Atlantis $40,000 per night luxury hotel suite
Some famous people have called this 924sq m hotel suite home - but at £23,000 ($40,000) per night, its clientele tends to be only[more...]
Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes the top sports cars on the market right now
Porsche, Jaguar and Mercedes have three of the top sports cars on the market right now. But which one is right for you? Bloomberg[more...]