After years on the ropes, is M&S finally turning around? Sane financing and a brutal restructuring have helped the retailer return to the FTSE 100
Superdry suspends trading in its shares as full-year results delayed Fashion retailer expects to report figures by end of this week after missing 29 August deadline
Marks & Spencer on track to return to FTSE 100 as pre-tax profits soar Retailer promises to restart dividend payments as strong sales prompt share price surge
Wilko closures and job losses on hold as administrator considers rescue bids Restructuring specialist M2 makes potential offer alongside HMV owner Doug Putman
UK food prices as big a concern for consumers as energy bills, Which? finds Pace of food inflation continued to slow in August, data shows, but trust in supermarket sector at decade-low
Wilko: union seeks urgent meeting with business secretary over administrators GMB asks Kemi Badenoch to ensure PwC considers all bids for collapsed retailer as 12,500 jobs are at stake
Wilko administrators urged to accept rescue deal after second bid Last-minute white knight bid worth £90m from M2 Capital follows earlier offer from owner of HMV
Bumpy ride for billionaire brothers who banked on Asda’s success Blackburn’s Moshin and Zuber Issa took over the supermarket promising investment to make it the UK’s second-largest chain, but the pandemic and cost of living crisis meant it did not go to to plan
John Lewis and Waitrose join drive to make reusable period products cheaper Price of more than 30 different kinds of period underwear to be reduced at stores from next week
Experts sceptical Wilko deal will emerge with creditors in driving seat Administrators put creditors’ interests over those of employees – and for creditors, liquidation may be the best option
HMV owner makes last-ditch bid to rescue Wilko Proposal by Doug Putman could save 350 stores and 10,000 jobs as union calls for employees to be prioritised
‘Usually it’s packed in August’: UK seaside towns suffer in cost of living crisis Torquay business owners tell of struggling to pay bills as footfall drops and people cut costs
Ten dollars for a block of cheese?! Who is making the supermarkets do this?! It is a mystery! We may never know
UK retailers plan to cut jobs as spending slump deepens, says CBI Barometer of retail activity falls for fourth consecutive month to lowest level since March 2021
UK retail sales weaken in ‘summer to forget’; stock markets rise as Nvidia surges – as it happened Rolling live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as hopes for end of the rate hike cycle also boost shares