Amazon has opened its first UK Amazon Fresh store in London's Ealing borough. It will sell prepared meals, groceries, and Amazon devices.

ASOS has bought Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, and HIIT for £265 million ($US364 million). The brands were part of the Arcadia Group, which fell into administration in December. They generated a combined £1 billion ($US1.4 billion) in revenues in 2019, falling to £265 million ($US364 million) in 2020 during the […]

Boohoo has bought Debenhams’ brand and website for £55 million ($US75 million). Debenhams’ 118 stores will still close, which leaves 12,000 jobs at risk. The purchase will allow Boohoo to enter new markets while trying to cash in on the e-commerce boom. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Fast-fashion […]

British fashion giant Primark’s sales were down 30% year-on-year in the quarter, its parent company said. More than 75% of its stores are currently closed. Primark’s total loss from store closures could reach £1.05 billion ($US1.43 billion), it said. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Store closures could cost […]

After photos of Margaret Keenan receiving the West’s first COVID-19 vaccine flooded social media, Twitter users were quick to praise her festive t-shirt. She was the first woman to receive Pfizer’s vaccine on Tuesday, when the UK began rolling out the shots. Sales of the blue t-shirt have tripled, with […]

British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) posted a half-year pre-tax loss of £87.6 million ($US114.0 million). Sales of clothing and homeware, which usually account for a third of its UK retail revenues, plunged during the pandemic. It’s the first half-year loss for M&S in 94 years. But M&S said the […]

Burger King customers should order from McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and KFC to support both employees and restaurants, the fast-food chain’s UK arm said Monday. Burger King UK published the tweet three days before England was to enter a second lockdown, with cafés, bars, and restaurants forced to end dine-in services. […]

Bloomsbury, the original publisher for the “Harry Potter” series, posted a 17% rise in revenue and 60% rise in profits in the six months to August. It posted its highest first-half earnings since 2008, and said people had “rediscovered the pleasure of reading” during lockdown. Bloomsbury credited its performance to […]

A Tesco branch refused to sell sanitary products to customers on Monday, with the retailer claiming the items were “non-essential” and therefore off-limits during the country’s strict lockdown. The Welsh government has told retailers selling non-essential items to close, and ordered supermarkets to block off aisles selling non-essential products. The […]

Asos posted a record 329% increase in pretax profit to £142.1 million ($US184 million) in the year to August. This was mainly down to it cutting around £50 million ($US65 million) of costs. Sales of sportswear, skincare, and makeup also boomed during lockdown. But it said it was “cautious on […]

Tim Hortons currently has 23 UK restaurants – but the fast food chain has ambitious plans to to open an outlet in “every major city and town” in the UK over the next two years, it told The Telegraph. Many of these will be drive-thru sites, which have seen “exceptional […]

Tesco’s total revenues grew 8.6% in the six months to August, it said on Wednesday, thanks to a surge in online shopping during the pandemic. In the UK, online sales at the grocery giant nearly doubled in the quarter to August. Customers favoured Tesco’s smaller, local stores over its larger […]

Walmart has sold its UK grocery chain Asda in an $US8.8 billion deal, Asda announced on Friday. The buyer consortium included private equity firm TDR Capital and Euro Garages owners the Issa brothers. Walmart will retain an equity investment in the business, but TDR Capital and the Issa brothers will […]

Starbucks now sells a vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte with a soy-based topping, and a vegan Pumpkin Spice Cookie – but both are only available in the UK. The pumpkin syrup has been adapted in Europe to make it dairy-free and was first put on sale in 2018, but this hasn’t […]

Online grocer Ocado’s stock market value has risen to £21.66 billion ($US27.8 billion) – briefly making it the UK’s most valuable retailer, ahead of Britain’s biggest grocery chain, Tesco. Ocado only has a 1.7% share of the grocery market, according to Kantar, but saw sales jump 52% in the quarter […]

British fast fashion retailer Boohoo earned £816.5 million ($US1.05 billion) in sales in the six months to August 31, it reported on Wednesday. Boohoo’s international popularity is growing rapidly: Sales in the US nearly doubled compared to the same time last year. Nearly half of the group’s sales are now […]

Tesco wants to sell four times as many plant-based meat alternatives in 2025 as it did in 2018, the British grocery giant said on Tuesday. It will expand its range of meatless sausages, burgers, and pies over that period, it said. Sales of plant-based foods in the UK grew 40% […]