BUSINESS LIVE: Service sector goes on a bumper hiring spree

BUSINESS LIVE: Service sector on a bumper hiring spree; Record new customers flock to AJ Bell; Aviva reports highest insurance sales in a decade Hiring in consumer-facing service sector jobs rise at fastest pace since 2015  AJ Bell pre-tax half year profits up nearly 40% as customer numbers rise  By This Is Money Published: 07:39 BST, … Read more

BUSINESS LIVE: Boohoo enjoys bumper revenue growth

BUSINESS LIVE: Boohoo enjoys bumper revenue growth; ITV sees cash from adverts bounce back; Ikea launches buy-back scheme for old furniture By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 08:12 BST, 5 May 2021 | Updated: 08:13 BST, 5 May 2021 The FTSE 100 got off to a decent start this morning, rising over 0.62 per cent … Read more

Outlook is rosier says NatWest boss: Bank reports bumper profits

Outlook is rosier says NatWest boss: Bank reports bumper profits – but money laundering scandal casts cloud over costs By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 29 April 2021 | Updated: 23:12 BST, 29 April 2021 Natwest raked in bumper profits in the first three months of this year after fewer people … Read more

Audioboom enjoys bumper revenue growth during lockdown

Audioboom enjoys bumper revenue growth as the number of locked-down podcaster listeners swells Revenue rose to £19.7m in the past year, which is up around a fifth from 2019 Advertiser numbers up and group managed to narrow its losses  By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 17:01 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 17:01 GMT, 20 … Read more

Goldman Sachs bankers set to scoop £240k each after bumper year

Goldman Sachs bankers set to scoop £240k each in pay and perks after bumper year By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:54 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 19 January 2021 Goldman Sachs set aside almost £9.8billion in ‘compensation and benefits’ in 2020 for its 40,500 staff Goldman Sachs bankers are set … Read more

B&M will pay 30,000 staff a week’s extra wages amid bumper festive sales

B&M Bargains has doled out a 20p-a-share special dividend to shareholders as well as £30million to its boss Simon Arora after the cheap retailer enjoyed a bumper Christmas..  Arora and his family are the biggest shareholders in B&M, enabling him to pay himself £30million, in addition to a £44million dividend payout revealed two months ago. B&M will … Read more

Families who bought a huge turkey now face a bumper batch of leftovers

Make space in the freezer! Families who bought a huge turkey expecting guests for Christmas dinner now face a bumper batch of leftovers amid new lockdown rules stopping households from mixing Those yet to order turkey are likely to face scramble for smaller birds and crowns Families will be best off cooking the turkey and … Read more

British farmers enjoy bumper Brussels sprout harvest after UK’s sweltering summer

British farmers have enjoyed a bumper Brussels sprout harvest this year after the UK’s sweltering summer, with giant specimens double the size of normal crops.  In the lead up to Christmas the demand for the popular festive vegetable rockets, often leaving many yuletide dinner makers disappointed.  But thanks to the scorching summer sprouts are in … Read more

One of Britain’s oldest Brussels sprout farms is blessed with a bumper crop this Christmas

Sprout-standing! One of Britain’s oldest Brussels sprout farms is blessed with a bumper crop this Christmas after a scorching summer sent yields soaring by 20% compared to last year A quarter of a million of the  sprouts will be hand-picked at Essington Farm  Staff at the Staffordshire farm will work all daylight hours during Christmas week Richard … Read more

Big Brother: Kieran Davidson rides bumper cars at Luna Park with Allan Liang and Marissa Rancan

EXCLUSIVE: Big Brother ‘mastermind’ Kieran Davidson is reunited with Allan Liang and Marissa Rancan as they ride bumper cars at Sydney’s Luna Park By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:35 BST, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 05:35 BST, 12 October 2020 He rose to fame thanks to his mastermind tricks while competing on … Read more