Category: Business

A woman who gave up sport because of a lack of sanitary products is sponsoring a girls’ football team with the period pants company she founded. Growing up in Nepal, Ruby Ruat, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, had to make-do with scraps of fabric, which would fall out of her underwear as she played. In 2017, […]

Liam Gallagher used the instrument on hits Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova before throwing it out after recording in Monmouthshire in 1995. The album defined the Britpop era and has sold more than 22 million copies. Now Morning Glory’s engineer has sold the tambourine, which had a £300-£500 guide price, for £3,600 at auction. “The tambourine […]

She said office interaction was vital to advance in companies, but many women were still tied to home working. Ms Mann said it was a particular issue for mothers facing school disruptions and difficulty accessing childcare. Earlier this year, Rishi Sunak warned about young people’s careers. The chancellor said he doubted his banking career would […]

Manufacturing at a once-threatened Rolls-Royce plant will continue for at least 10 years, the engineering giant has announced. The site in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, had seen strikes in a long dispute over the firm’s future plans for it. A spokesman said a deal had been struck with unions “to ensure Barnoldswick can move forward with certainty”. […]

Megan is a bricklaying technician and training to become a teacher on construction courses at Milton Keynes Collage. “I was doing health and social care but it wasn’t for me at all. I really didn’t think that was my career path,” she says. “Some of the people I knew were doing bricklaying at the time, […]

Japanese conglomerate Toshiba has confirmed plans to split the company into three separate businesses. Toshiba said the three companies would be focused on infrastructure, semiconductors and devices. The company has come under increasing pressure from activist investors to make changes since an accounting scandal in 2015. This week, US giant General Electric announced a similar […]

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Singles Day is known for being the world’s biggest online shopping extravaganza. But this year it has been a more toned down affair as Beijing cracks down on businesses and economic growth slows. Sales for the 11-day event rose at their slowest rate since it was launched in 2009, up 8.5% […]