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Sainsbury’s, the third largest grocer in the UK, outsold the competition in the month before Christmas, according to data from Nielsen. Sales increased by 8% on last year, and the four weeks leading up to December 25th saw an increase of 10.1%, with an accompanying rise in market shares of half a point, bringing it [...]  The transportation corporation Stagecoach is returning to London bus transit by acquiring a company it sold in 2006 at around 20 per cent of what it received. Stagecoach sold their London bus operations for about £265 million and is now buying them back for around £53 million. Although London bus market profits are not what [...] The rate of inflation during April jumped to a high of 3.7%, which is the highest it has been in the previous 17 months, and a much bigger leap than was anticipated. A large part of the rise of price inflation since November of 2008 is attributed to the increase in price of food, women’s clothing, [...] Communications regulator Ofcom wants to accelerate the rate at which ‘super quick’ broadband is introduced to the UK by demanding that BT allows its rivals to utilize its fibre network along with telegraph poles and underground ducts. Ofcom announced this week a set of proposals that would let BT’s competition access the fibre optic network cables [...] Costa is quickly becoming the rising star in the Whitbread group due to their new flat offering of a strong white coffee called the ‘flat white’ three weeks ago. The group reported that sales grew for all three of their businesses- Premier Inn, Beefeater, and Costa- which are spread across the UK. Across Britain there are [...] |
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