- Vodafone, Newbury's best-known export, is perhaps the greatest British corporate success of the past 30 years. Pity about those tax deals...
- Yet more bad news for the banking arm of the Co-Op group - CEO Barry Tootell has quit only hours after the bank's was downgraded to Junk status by ratings agency Moody's.
- Barratt Developments, one of Britain's best-known housebuilders, has reported a surge in demand and reckons the market is at a five-year high.
- The online betting platform has already rejected an offer at £8.80 a share and could be looking for over £10...
- Six year old social media phenomenon Twitter has hired Morgan Stanley's Cynthia Gaylor, suggesting that an IPO could be coming up fast.
- As of July American GDP figs will be altered to include intangible assets, bumping up growth by a not-too-shabby 3%.
- Lord Deighton achieved a spectacular success with the London Olympics last year. Can he sprinkle the same magic on the stalled nuclear power deal with EDF?
- The nation's favourite smoothie-maker, famed for its quirky attitude and Astroturf-covered vans, sold 24 smoothies on its first day. Now Innocent supplies two-thirds of the UK market. Here's how it all began.
- A fault in the gas pipeline between the UK and Belgium has caused a whopping 50% spike in the wholesale price of gas.
- Troubled drugs group AstraZeneca is to close its historic RnD centre in Alderley Park, Cheshire, with the loss of 700 jobs in total.
- Cask-ale-and-no-music pub chain JD Wetherspoon's has just reported a 2.7% fall in first half profits, down to £34.8m, despite revenues up 10% to £626.4m.
- The UK's largest chain has bought one of its smallest, family restaurant Giraffe, which may see in-store eateries in many of the supermarket giant's stores.
- Dublin-based bookie Paddy Power made profits of 139.2m Euros in 2012, up 15% on the previous year. Who said gambling doesn't pay?
- The average Chinese tourist gets through £405 in Britain on holiday, making the Chinese among the most lavish cash-splashing visitors to our shores.
- Three years into a 5 year turnaround, Britain's largest free-to-air commercial broadcaster has posted profits up 6% and is paying shareholders a special £156m dividend.
- The three founders of the Innocent smoothie brand have sold the majority of their remaining shares to Coca Cola for an estimated £100m. That's a lot of pineapple, however you slice it.
- Andrew Bailey has been appointed head of the new banking regulator the PRA. He's also to be deputy governor of the bank. Not a bad day's work.
- Barclays' boss Antony Jenkins has taken the lid off his much anticipated strategic review of the banks activities. So what's inside the box?
- Findus's owner Lion Capital is coming under close scrutiny, after FSA tests showed some of its so-called 'beef' products are 100% horsemeat.
- Barclays has announced that its FD since 2007, Chris Lucas, and General Counsel Mark Harding are both to retire.
