For the overwhelming majority of retailers, the festive season is make or break. Christmas and New Year 2024 may have delivered surprisingly buoyant top-line revenues, given the consumer
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the service sector to the modern UK economy. According to research by the House of Commons Library, it represents 81% of
The UK economy appears to be on a slow upward trajectory in 2024 after a rocky start and on the back of a tough business landscape in 2023.
The signs are that the worst of the cost of living crisis may be over for consumers, with CPI inflation at 3.4% in February now well below the
Green shoots of recovery or another false dawn? The chart of the UK’s monthly GDP movement over the past thirteen months, published in mid-March by the Office for
The Office for National Statistics has finally put an end to speculation and confirmed that the UK was in a technical recession in the second half of 2023.
