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Sarah Butler

Sarah Butler is a Guardian journalist, writing about retail companies, consumer goods and workers' rights. Twitter @whatbutlersaw

10 October 2024

  • Ikea store in Greenwich, London, including its bright yellow logo above the steel, concrete and glass building

    Ikea says cutting prices ‘remains a priority’ after UK sales slide

    Sales down nearly 7% to £2.3bn in year to August as number of items sold fell back and retailer lowered prices
  • Combine harvester gathering the crop and transferring it to a tractor’s trailer on arable farmland in Shropshire

    Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather

    Wheat haul in England estimated to be down by 21%, with Britain’s wine producers also hit hard
  • The Ukraine Solidarity Project with a protest billboard in the style of a Dove advert outside the Unilever HQ in London in 2023.

    Unilever sells Russian business after pressure from campaigners

    Dove maker’s deal with local manufacturer Arnest Group includes four factories

8 October 2024

  • Shein’s logo and their web shop.

    Business live
    Shein’s UK profits double; Water companies penalised for poor performance; China targets EU brandy – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK gilt yields rise and water companies face paying £157m to customers
  • The influencer Charlie Kamale attends a Shein party

    Shein doubles profits in UK after sales leap 40% to £1.5bn

    Fast-fashion retailer presents ‘real challenge for Boohoo and Asos’ as it considers £50bn IPO, says analyst
  • Selfridges department store

    Saudi wealth fund buys 40% stake in Selfridges department store

    Thai conglomerate Central Group to co-own high-profile retailer with Saudi Public Investment Fund

5 October 2024

  • Superdry co-founder Julian Dunkerton sits atop a display bench of clothes

    Superdry boss: ‘Shein should pay tax in a fair way or there will be UK bankruptcies’

    Julian Dunkerton on how Brexit was an ‘economic disaster’ and why the brand is focusing on ‘preppy classics’

3 October 2024

  • Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England.

    Business live
    Pound heads for biggest fall in 18 months after Bank of England governor hints at ‘more activist’ rate cuts; Oil hits $77 per barrel – as it happened

  • A staff member on an aisle at a Tesco store

    Tesco boss says new workers’ rights laws must not hurt growth

2 October 2024

  • The Starling Bank banking app on a smart phone. The bank was fined for “shockingly lax” sanctions controls

    Business live
    Starling Bank fined £29m for ‘shockingly lax’ sanctions breaches – as it happened

    Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as bank gave accounts to 49,000 high-risk customers and oil prices rise after Iranian missile attacks on Israel
  • Tents at a Dorset campsite

    JD Sports’ UK business hit by bad weather and Red Sea disruption

    Cold and wet spring reduces demand for camping kit and clothing, while shipping rerouting delays deliveries
  • a daytime picture of the Harrods store in Knightsbridge taken from the opposite side of the street

    Veteran Harrods executive drops plan to head Fenwick amid Al Fayed controversy

    Nigel Blow worked for 14 years at Knightsbridge store as more than 70 victims allege sexual assault by late owner

1 October 2024

  • An anodising process at Birmingham factory Firmin & Son.

    Business live
    Biggest drop in UK manufacturing confidence since March 2020; eurozone inflation hits three-year low – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK factory growth slows and eurozone inflation dips below 2%
  • A Dobbies garden centre

    Garden centre chain Dobbies to shut 17 stores as part of restructuring plan

    Closures will affect 465 jobs and retailer will also try to reduce its rent bill at nine sites if creditors approve its strategy

    • Greggs says it has no plans for more price rises as sales slow

    • UK unions fear not all staff will get fair share as tip-sharing law comes into force

    • UK shop prices fall at fastest rate since 2021 despite rising fresh food inflation

September 2024

  • Rightmove’s website

    Business live
    News Corp applauds Australia’s REA Group for abandoning attempted takeover of Rightmove – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
  • a model in a brown dress/coat holds a circular shaped teal coloured leather handbag

    Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group makes £83m offer for handbag maker Mulberry

    Sports Direct owner looks to up 37% stake to 100% amid concerns for future of cash-strapped fashion firm
  • Pizza Express restaurant with waitress

    Observer business agenda
    Restaurants ponder price increases as new tip-sharing law comes into force

    Ban on using optional payments to cover costs or boost profits has bosses, and their staff, worried
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