Morrisons shares driven up as investors bet on bidding war
Analysis: private equity rivals Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Fortress are leapfrogging each other
May 2019
Ex-Tesco boss backs Liverpool arts school
Sir Terry Leahy takes 20% stake in LMA, whose choir was on The X Factor
June 2017
Arora brothers cash in £227m of shares from B&M retail chain
Fast-growing national discounter’s bosses have now taken out almost £1bn since floating business in 2014
August 2016
Business blog
Osborne makes good point on economy – first thing he's got right this year
Graham Ruddick
As Bank of England fires its Brexit bazooka, former chancellor pops up on Twitter to call for supply side reform
November 2015
Profits rise but B&M struggles to keep pace with store openings
Discount retailer has opened 47 shops – almost two a week – this financial year, which has made it difficult to get product on shelves for Christmas
April 2015
Tesco timeline – the retail giant's rise and fall
From 1977 to the present day, the glory days of rapid expansion in the 1980s and 1990s to the recent crop of profit warnings, scandals and ever-growing losses
February 2015
Nils Pratley on finance
For BP and Shell, oil is in very troubled waters
The two energy multinationals have differing views on prospects for the oil price but either way it will be a tough few years
January 2015
Nils Pratley on finance
Sir Terry Leahy, the supermarket superhero? Not exactly …
Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy blames successor for firm’s woes
November 2014
Sir Terry Leahy ‘shocked’ by events at Tesco
Tesco has stopped focusing on what it does well, says Sir Terry Leahy
September 2014
Tesco timeline – the highs and lows of the UK's biggest retailer
Sense of crisis deepens after supermarket reveals profits overstated by £250m
July 2014
Business blog
Philip Clarke fiddled while Tesco burned
The CEO played a bad hand poorly, failing to drop Sir Terry Leahy's foreign misadventures quick enough and refocus pronto on the core UK business, writes Julia Finch
June 2014
Tesco chairman pledges to turn around ailing supermarket group
B&M Value Retail's stock market float sees return of Sir Terry Leahy
Former Tesco chief executive left disappointed by retailer's performance
Nils Pratley on finance
B&M flotation of £2.9bn is a possibility but feels over-hyped
April 2014
Business chiefs: north-west can refresh parts of economy London cannot reach
CBI director general and former Tesco boss blow trumpet for Liverpool business festival taking place this summer
February 2014
Discount retailer B&M prepares for a stock market flotation
Chain set up in Blackpool with £750 in 1978 could be valued at £2bn
September 2013
The Hut packs a punch and eyes up £250m flotation
The founders started by packaging DVDs, but now the firm is finding business behemoths queuing up to give them backing
