By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 16:50 EDT, 20 June 2025 Royal Mail’s boss has quit weeks after the postal service fell into foreign hands for the first time in its 509-year history. In a move that caught the business world by surprise, Emma Gilthorpe left having been appointed chief executive a …
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Prepare to say a long farewell to the birthday card, the thank-you note and the love letter. The get-well card is set for a terminal decline. Letter-writing has been a dwindling art for some time, but the takeover of the Royal Mail by Czech tycoon Daniel Kretinsky looks set to …
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In the most recent Premium Bonds draw, I noticed that one of the £1million jackpot winners was from Stockport, Greater Manchester. However, I was under the impressions that usually it’s the county that is named, not the exact location. Looking through the list I see Hertfordshire, Devon, Kent, Wales… but …
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By ALEX BRUMMER FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 17:11 EDT, 3 June 2025 As a long-standing critic of private equity pillage, I should be cheering from the rooftops at the decision by KKR to pull out of its proposed rescue of Thames Water. Yet given the ghastly legacy of financial …
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By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 22:00, 2 June 2025 A former trade minister has been appointed as an adviser to the new owner of Royal Mail. Greg Hands, who lost his seat as a Conservative MP in last year’s election, will advise Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group on …
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By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 21:50, 30 May 2025 M&G has sold a 15 per cent stake to one of Japan’s biggest life insurers in a partnership deal. Shares in the financial group rallied yesterday after it announced that Dai-ichi Life is now its largest shareholder in a long-term tie-up. The …
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By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 16:50 EDT, 30 May 2025 M&G has sold a 15 per cent stake to one of Japan’s biggest life insurers in a partnership deal. Shares in the financial group rallied yesterday after it announced that Dai-ichi Life is now its largest shareholder in a long-term tie-up. …
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Everplay rebranded from Team17 in March this year By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 05:04 EDT, 16 May 2025 Shares in London-listed indie video games maker Everplay fell on Friday as it revealed chief executive Steve Bell has left the firm after less than two years in charge. Everplay, which rebranded from …
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German delivery giant buys ‘significant’ minority stake in Evri owner Apollo Evri will enter the business letter market for the first time post merger By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 06:51 EDT, 14 May 2025 Evri is set to merge with German delivery giant DHL’s UK economerce business, creating one of the …
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The velocity of the zigzags in Trump trade mayhem is remarkable. No one expected US peace in our time at the Geneva talks with China at the weekend, but what emerged is better than predicted. Just over a month after ‘Liberation Day’, the core tariff conflict between the US and …
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