Media Bites 15 January: CPI eases Reeves pressure, obesity overhaul call, NIC increases, Brewdog’s Watt faces flak
Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the consumer prices index eased to 2.5%, below a reading of 2.6% in ...
British Retailers Plan To Raise Prices In 2025: BRC
UK retailers plan to increase prices this year in response to increased National Insurance costs, according to a survey of Chief ...
Two thirds of retailers to hike prices because of Rachel Reeves’ budget, industry warns
Two thirds of the nation’s top retailers have warned they will have to raise prices to cope with rising tax bills triggered ...
Customer service fears grow in wake of Reeves’s tax raid
Rachel Reeves’s Budget tax raid will result in fewer workers across the retail sector, sparking fears that customers will ...
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Two-Thirds Of UK Retailers Will Raise Prices In 2025
When asked how they would be responding to the increases in employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs), from April ...
U.K. Retailers Seek Price Hikes to Counter National Insurance Increase, Survey Shows
U.K. retailers are expecting a bleak 2025 and most of them plan to raise prices in the wake of cost increases related to the ...
Retail CFOs predict price hikes after UK national insurance rise
The British Retail Consortium UK CFO survey found that 70% of respondents were "pessimistic" or "very pessimistic" about trading conditions for the next 12 months. Only 13% said they were "optimistic" ...
Most retailers will hike prices in response to Reeves’ National Insurance raid
A rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) is expected to add £2.5bn to retailers' costs in 2025, following ...
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Two-thirds of major retailers warn they're raising prices because of Labour Budget, as pressure on Chancellor grows
Two-thirds of major retail chains in the UK have said they will be raising prices because Labour's Budget added extra costs ...
Superdrug shuts another store adding to fears seaside resort is becoming 'ghost town'
An exodus of retail business from Bournemouth's High Street is sparking fears that the popular seaside resort is becoming a ...
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: New questions over Keir Starmer's judgment
The Treasury minister finally fell on her sword less than four weeks after the Daily Mail first revealed the extent of ...