AO.com hires more staff on back of Covid home shopping surge Online electrical goods retailer eager to be ‘a habit that lasts for our new customers’
B&Q owner should do decent thing and return its furlough payments This should be self-evident to a FTSE 100 firm enjoying a boost to profits from the pandemic
B&Q owner’s sales surge on back of lockdown DIY boom The City had expected profits at Screwfix parent Kingfisher to fall after it initially shut stores
Hermes to create 10,000 new jobs as delivery business soars Firm spends £30m expanding operations as home shopping benefits from lockdown
Is plaster the new toilet roll? Lockdown DIY binge stretches UK supplies Cement, plaster, fence panels, paint and power tools in huge demand as DIY shops report up to 250% rise in sales
DPD and Kingfisher to hire 7,500 UK staff as online shopping soars Delivery firm and owner of B&Q expand to deal with boom in online buying in lockdown
Cybersecurity, DIY and gaming to come up trumps in FTSE reshuffle Predictably, travel and aviation stocks are set to drop out of the top 100 firms in this week’s stock market review
Marks & Spencer joins growing list of UK firms deemed ‘junk’ investments Venerable retailer among 24 firms downgraded by S&P during coronavirus crisis
B&Q sales begin UK recovery after 70% lockdown slump Sales up 20% on equivalent week in April as Britons tackle DIY projects
More firms cancel dividends as market sell-off continues FCA asks companies to delay financial results for at least two weeks amid coronavirus crisis
Debenhams asks for rent holiday as shoppers shun streets Betting company Flutter talks of ‘unprecedented’ times and cautious shoppers steer clear of high street
Flotations, corporate collapses and Brexit: the year in business From WeWork’s crash and burn to the corporate world’s waking up to the climate crisis, 2019 was not a year we’ll forget in a hurry
Sale of defence firm Cobham is a bad deal but not a security threat Andrea Leadsom’s 11th-hour review of US private equity takeover looks doomed to fail
The welcome sight of banks rowing back on executive pensions HSBC and Lloyds are showing the way, but it’s still one rule for bosses and another for staff
Véronique Laury to step down as CEO of struggling Kingfisher Profits fall at DIY retail group behind B&Q and Screwfix, with plans to close stores