Business

DMGT to be delisted from the stock market
The Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), which owns the Daily Mail, is set to be delisted from the London Stock Exchange after 90 years after its biggest shareholder Lord Rothermere succeeded in his bid...

Webmart wins Outstanding Workplace award
Webmart has been awarded a People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award 2021 after achieving a top-quartile score of 91% in its latest employee survey.

BillerudKorsnäs acquires Verso
Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs has acquired North American coated paper producer Verso Corporation in a move to enter the paperboard market in the region.

Ink on Paper (Scotland) sold in pre-pack deal
Livingstone-based litho and digital print business Ink on Paper has been sold in a pre-pack deal to a fellow Scottish print operation.

German firm acquires Cotek Papers
UK-based release paper and film manufacturer Cotek Papers has been bought by German company Laufenberg.

Hexcite Group business Kesslers in administration
Retail display specialist Kesslers International, part of the Hexcite Group, has gone into administration due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the retail sector and cost inflation.

Taxing times
Towards the end of the summer, HMRC announced a consultation on proposals which would radically alter how unincorporated businesses – sole traders and partnerships – are taxed.

The long march of Covid
There just seems to be no escape from Covid. For some, the viral grenade took the form of furlough, job loss, business turndown or failure. For many others, sadly, it meant hospitalisation and in the...

Having flexible friends
There’s no question that Covid has altered society. It’s trampled on civil liberties, seen vaccines rolled out in double-quick time, spurred on the deployment of information technologies, and it’s...

Wishing all our readers a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2022
I’m pretty sure I say this every year – and having checked the archive it turns out I more or less have – so, forgive me, but: How. Can. It. Be. Christmas?