Inflation

UK's Greggs Shows Resilience With Quarterly Sales Rise

Greggs kept its full-year outlook as underlying sales rose in the third quarter and it won market share, showing the resilience of its value offer in...

John Lewis Chair Sharon White To Step Down In 2025

Sharon White, the chair of British retailer the John Lewis Partnership, will step down early in 2025, having decided not to seek a second term of office, t...

German Consumer Sentiment Unlikely To Recover This Year: GfK

Sentiment among German consumers is set to fall in October, as persistently high inflation encourages people to save and blots out the chances of a recover...

Dealz Owner Pepco Cuts Profit Outlook For Second Time This Month

Pepco Group has lowered its profit outlook for the second time this month, blaming an 'increasingly challenging' trading environment in its core markets of...

French Retailers Divided Over Government Call To Sell Fuel At Cost

Two leading French retailers were at odds on Tuesday over the government's call for petrol and diesel to be sold at cost price at the fuel pump, ahead of a...

Irn-Bru Maker A.G. Barr Half-Year Profit Rises On Firm Demand, Prices

Irn-Bru maker A.G. Barr on Tuesday posted a rise in its first-half profit, helped by strong demand for its cocktail mixes, soft drinks and price hikes...

Many Britons Still Under Pressure From Food Inflation: Aldi UK Boss

UK grocery inflation is easing but many Britons are still suffering in a cost-of-living crisis now into its second year, the boss of discount supermarket c...

UK Inflation Unexpectedly Falls In August

British annual consumer price inflation (CPI) unexpectedly fell to 6.7% in August, official data showed, raising questions about how much higher the B...