‘It’s the brand speaking to you’: the scent firms making smells for Subway, Abercrombie and more

As brick-and-mortar retail stores compete with e-commerce, chains are spending heavily to immerse customers in bespoke fragrances

Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests

Audiobooks are fast becoming ‘a major route to market for consumers of books’, the trade body says

Consumer caution over high interest rates and energy bills adds to bleak start to the year for sector

A year after coronation, firms that were under patronage of Queen Elizabeth II or former Prince of Wales reapply, while others get in on act

UK demand growing for beverages made from fungi, but experts dismiss innovations as ‘health products you don’t need’

SOC Investment Group highlights ‘serious concerns’ over company led by Todd Vasos who pocketed $183m between 2015 and 2021

Brad Banducci says period was ‘challenging’ in first public comments since fiery Senate inquiry hearing as share prices slip

Luxury British brand expects challenging trading conditions in UK and China to continue

Prices in non-food stores are lower in April than a year earlier as stores offload summer stock

Grocery service grew during Covid pandemic but has retreated amid competition and waning demand

Lithuania-based site is expanding while its rivals Depop and RealReal reported losses last year

Investors urged to vote against online grocer’s remuneration for CEO Tim Steiner at upcoming AGM

Concerned public contact council over safety fears after retailer erected askew billboard in Wandsworth

They have been resilient amid wider high street decline – but units are now emptying in areas such as Southall, west London