Don’t stop cash for Covid tests at work, CBI boss tells PM

Don’t stop cash for Covid tests at work next month, CBI boss Lord Bilimoria tells Prime Minister By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 20 February 2021 One of Britain’s most powerful bosses has called on the Prime Minister to put workplace Covid-19 testing … Read more

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn to join HSBC’s board

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn lands HSBC job just a week after joining BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 In demand: Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is being lines up to join the board of HSBC Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is set to … Read more

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of BAE 

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of defence giant BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 The CBI’s former boss has joined the board of BAE. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, who was director general of the business lobby group for … Read more

Reform Britain’s outdated business rates system now, CBI tells Sunak

Reform Britain’s outdated business rates system now to help High Street survive the pandemic, Sunak told By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 18 January 2021 Britain’s outdated business rates system must be ripped apart and rebuilt to ensure the High Street can survive and … Read more

CBI lobbies for cuts in Covid social distancing

CBI lobbies for cuts in Covid social distancing to help manufacturers The CBI has floated with Government the possibility of using Test to Release This would  allow employees to work more closely together By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 26 December 2020 Britain’s … Read more

Businesses must be handed more support, says CBI boss

Businesses facing ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, boss of Confederation of British Industry Dame Carolyn Fairbairn warns By Ruth Sunderland And Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 1 November 2020 Businesses are facing a ‘bleak midwinter’ and must be handed more support, … Read more

Outgoing CBI boss tells PM to save economy from Covid

Tough at the top: Outgoing CBI boss Carolyn Fairbairn Carolyn Fairbairn, the first female director general of the CBI, is stepping down after one of the most turbulent periods in the business organisation’s 55-year history.  In her time at the top she has dealt with three prime ministers, a seismic rupture with the European Union, … Read more

CBI boss Carolyn Fairbairn demands Boris Johnson leads UK firms back into the workplace

Boris Johnson must do more to get office workers back at their desks, a senior business leader says today. Carolyn Fairbairn warns commercial centres risk being permanent ‘ghost towns’. Writing in the Mail, the director-general of the CBI says getting staff back into offices and workplaces is as important as the return of pupils to … Read more

Economic recovery ‘being led by manufacturers’, says CBI

Manufacturers lead the way as Britain’s economy enters a ‘recovery phase’, says CBI By Dan Atkinson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 23:05 BST, 1 August 2020 Britain’s economy has entered a ‘recovery phase’, with manufacturing leading the way, the latest figures from the Confederation of British Industry … Read more

CBI reports UK retail sales grow just 4% in July

High Street retailers staggered back into growth in July but face a long uphill battle to return to their pre-coronavirus normal, news figures revealed today. Sales for the year to July were up by just 4 per cent as shoppers returned, according to a closely watched survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).  The … Read more