Struggling chocolate maker and retailer Thorntons says sales have fallen 7.6% in the past three weeks with sales from its own shops down 10.1% ... more
Which retailer will be the first to warn that this week's supposed heatwave will hit sales? We suggested Thorntons or Blacks Leisure or Clinton Cards...... more
Cake maker Finsbury Foods shows just how hard conditions are for firms that supply supermarkets, even before a mooted industry price war kicks off... more
Shoppers at Brent Cross and other malls owned by developer Hammerson are being tracked by their mobile phone signals to help the landlord dissect footfall... more
Retail sales figures are expected to reveal a modest rise in spending in June as some of the country's biggest store chains start their summer sales early to tempt cash-strapped consumers... more
Ring, ring. A headhunter calls, searching for someone keen to tend to the Royal Estates, or at least the £7.3 billion Crown Estate, whose latest annual surplus of £230 million goes to us commoners via the Treasury... more
As another big chain fails, Ben Bryant reports on how the recession, C-charging and Westfield threaten shops near the Camerons' old London home... more
Fresh signs of the British consumer's crisis of confidence emerge as a welter of dire economic news threatens the UK's fragile pull away from recession... more
Desperate retailers are starting summer sales early in a bid to kick-start a moribund High Street which is suffering one of its worst periods for decades... more
Troubled chocolate retailer Thorntons deals a further blow to the high street by announcing plans to close up to 180 stores in a move affecting up to 750 staff... more
When Robert Schofield, in his capacity as chief executive of Premier Foods, warns that speculators are making it that much more difficult to provide food at a fair price, we should take notice... more
As the BBC's new media centre rises on Manchester’s Salford Quays, London staff are choosing to commute and rent rather than commit to moving house... more
Britain is a nation of chocoholics — but not when the sun’s out. That’s the message from toffee and Viennese truffles house Thorntons, which has seen sales slip during the past 10 weeks ... more
A later Easter has proved a till-clattering feast for Thorntons. The chocolate maker said sales since the turn of the year have soared more than 11%. That compares with a 1.6% slump in the weeks running up the Christmas ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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