Ministers should consider abolishing VAT on electric vehicles (EV) or increase the incentives currently available to buy them, a market report has said. The RAC’s annual report on motoring found that electric car demand is marginally higher than a year ago, with fewer than one in ten drivers polled saying their next car will be … Read more
Apple set to unveil quarterly sales of $100bn for first time when results for final three months of 2020 published By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:59 GMT, 22 January 2021 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 22 January 2021 Apple is expected to unveil quarterly sales of $100billion for the first time next week. … Read more
The rush to get property deals over the line before the stamp duty holiday ends on 31 March has been laid bare in new figures from HM Revenue & Customs today. In December last year, the number of residential sales was over 30 per cent higher than during the same month back in 2019. On … Read more
Pets at Home sees festive sales soar and is ‘monitoring’ the post-Brexit border situation in Northern Ireland to ensure supplies keep moving Pets at Home saw sales rise by 17.5% over the festive period, update shows Says it had preparations for post-Brexit transition period in place ahead of time By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: … Read more
M&S seals deals with womenswear brands Joules, Phase Eight, Hobbs and Seasalt to lift online sales By Mark Shapland For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 January 2021 The shake-up at Marks & Spencer continues after the retailer struck deals with four womenswear brands to give its … Read more
The gift of gold: Royal Mint saw a huge surge in precious metal sales in run-up to Christmas which could result in profits surge Royal Mint says 1g and 5g gold bar sales surged 53% during Christmas Turbulence in 2020 saw the popularity of both digital and physical gold go up Investors aged between 22 … Read more
Lockdown means more of us are tucking into toast for breakfast sending sales of jam and marmalade soaring Sales of preserves and spreads soared by £120million during lockdown Peanut butter was the biggest winner, in terms of growth in demand, followed by jam, honey, chocolate spread, yeast spread, marmalade and curd The figures are thought … Read more
Number of housing sales agreed so far this month up 9% on last year, as pent-up demand continues to filter through, according to Rightmove By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:01 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 18 January 2021 The number of housing sales agreed so far this month is … Read more
Sales of flats HALVE as housing market is crippled by fire risk fears brought on by Grenfell cladding crisis Flat prices halved amid fears over cladding similar to that on Grenfell Tower In September last year flat transactions also fell by around 5,600, or 48 per cent Earlier was revealed homeowners could face £40,000 bill … Read more
Lockdowns to wipe £1bn off Primark sales… but Boohoo booms as internet shoppers stock up on casualwear Boohoo enjoyed a bumper Christmas but Primark suffered as stores closed Primark’s refusal down the years to move online looks like a grave error Boohoo generated £661 million in sales in the four months to December 31 By … Read more