13 h. ago World’s largest EV battery maker CATL to raise at least $4bn

Chinese company’s Hong Kong offering set to be biggest listing globally this year

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6 d. ago Papa Johns shares huge update after closing 40 high street restaurant branches

The UK boss of the pizza giant has shared that the company is set to return to profit for the first time since 2021, this year with Papa Johns managing director Chris Phylactou recently confirming that it was "no longer losing money”.

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9 d. ago I hated my job so I set up my own company – it made £10m last year

A couple of years ago D. Louise founder Olivia Jenkins, from Cardiff, was miserable in her nine-to-five office job selling advertising. Now she's turning over £10m a year and has been named among Britain's top young entrepreneurs

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1 week ago Scissor Kick presents "Deep Wheel Orcadia": A Celebration of Language, Identity, and Survival in Sci

In a world where the future often feels uncertain and divided, one production is reminding us of the power of language, identity, and connection. Deep Wheel Orcadia, based on Harry Josephine Giles’ award-winning verse novel, is a thrilling new show that blends sci-fi with theatre, while offering a unique and much-needed celebration of minority language and queer identity. Produced by the acclaimed Scottish theatre company Scissor Kick, this spellbinding performance is set to make waves when it embarks on a tour across Scotland in June and July 2025.

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3 w. ago Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectatorMany years ago there was a BBC children’s TV programme called Why Don’t You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?. Its aim was to encourage kids to spending their summer holidays helping grannies across the street or litter-picking rather than lying on the sofa filling their faces with cheese puffs. If I’m anything to go by, it didn’t work.Moral Ambition is Why Don’t You? for grownups, written by a Dutch historian but deploying psychologically sophisticated nudge techniques, shaming devices and a hectoring imperative mood to encourage clever if spiritually bankrupt people like you (no offence) to do something beyond making mortgage payments by means of a job you hate. Don’t you realise that the average worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job and, judging by the look of you (again, no offence), 79,999 of th...

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3 w. ago Matt Hancock's TV firm only has £1 in its accounts one year after he quit being an MP for new career

The former health secretary's new venture remains a dormant company, despite it being set up in January 2023, accounts show.

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3 w. ago Gossip, gowns and Agas: could Ladies of the Cotswolds be reality TV’s next big thing?

Grand Designs team to make show set in wealthy English countryside that promises to be part glittering social whirl and part bloodbath The Cotswolds had better steel itself: reality television is upon it. A series is planned (rumoured working title: Ladies of the Cotswolds) and it sounds posher than most. It’s made by the company behind Grand Designs and set in the “chocolate box” town of Charlbury, in the Evenlode valley.Names are being proposed for the series, such as Gabriela Peacock (nutritionist entrepreneur married to hedge fund banker David Peacock, and pals with Joan Collins and Princess Beatrice). Plum Sykes (author of last year’s Cotswolds-set novel Wives Like Us) is thought to be scripting the voiceover. Then there’s “Suzie Jet” (Suzannah Harvey), CEO of the local airport. How marvellously down to earth and relatable they all sound. Though of course they don’t, and that’s the point. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again

Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattleBibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goalsThe life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforestThe world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers.Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter. JBS, the Brazil-headquartered multinational that dominates the Brazilian cattle market, promised to address this with a commitment to clean up its beef supply chain in the region by the end of 2025. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Holly Willoughby's media company owes £377,000 in tax, High Court hears

Roxy Media, the media company set up by Holly Willoughby, 44, and her husband Dan Baldwin, 50, was issued with a winding-up order this year, according to court filings.

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3 w. ago Holly Willoughby's company owes £377,000 in unpaid taxes, court hears

Former This Morning host Holly Willoughby set up Roxy Media with husband Dan Baldwin, but their former company has now been ordered to pay £377,000 in unpaid tax

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3 w. ago Gatwick Easter strike update as 50 flights a day face major disruption

Strikes are set to start on Good Friday as company and union lock horns over pay and work patterns

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4 w. ago Major greetings card retailer looks to shut more shops ahead of two store closures

Despite the major gift card retailer overturning a profit earlier this week, several Clintons shops may be set to close after the company posted a warning about labour tax hikes

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