Labour backs away from bank windfall tax in bid to win over City
Reports suggest Labour is not planning to impose a windfall tax if it comes into power.
Bioscope: Cambridge biotech gold extractor firm eyes IPO
Bioscope Technologies, which uses micro-organisms to draw out gold and precious metals, currently has a £12.8m turnover.
Royal Mail: Analysts bet Kretinsky £3.5bn takeover is blocked despite board OK
Royal Mail owner IDS has given the OK to a higher offer from 'Czech Sphinx' Daniel Kretinsky, with a host of safeguards now in place
Impax hit by outflows as investors adopt ‘risk-off’ stance
ESG-focused Impax Asset Management has seen continued net outflows into 2024 as investors withdraw from sustainable funds, while its investment performance drove a growth in assets under management.
React Group’s ‘extreme cleaning’ services drive huge profit growth
Specialist cleaning firm React Group has released a bumper set of half year results, with profits surging and significant revenue growth.
Fuller’s cashes in with sale of London pubs to Admiral Taverns
Fullers Smith & Turner will sell 37 pubs across London and South-East England for a total of £18.3m to Admiral Taverns Limited.
Home REIT tenant surrenders hundreds of properties after regulatory probe
Scandal-hit property investor Home REIT has struck a deal to claw back hundreds of leases from a major tenant facing a probe from the charities watchdog.
Bloomsbury reckons new acquisition will be ‘game-changing’ for Harry Potter publisher
The publisher behind Harry Potter books has boosted its academic publishing arm with the $83 (65m) acquisition of Rowman & Littlefield.
Softcat to offer new machine learning services with AI specialist Sysgroup
Softcat has partnered with artificial intelligence specialist Sysgroup, in a move bosses hope will expand its machine learning customer-base.
London-listed investment trust to go private after less than three years
Investment company Foresight Sustainable Forestry has received an offer to be taken private.