Sam Chambers

When the late Dame Anita Roddick collected a CBI “Company of the Year” award in 1987, the founder of The Body Shop provocatively described the assembled captains of industry as “dinosaurs in pinstriped suits”. Roddick’s disdain for myopic pursuits of profit went against the grain of corporate cultur

Authentic Brands has built an empire snapping up brands from David Beckham to Reebok. Now boss Jamie Salter is gunning for the high street

The London-based tech darling was worth as much as $23 billion in 2021. Now its founder is looking for a $500 million lifeline

Online buying, it seemed, spelt death for physical retail. Tell that to property giants like Landsec, which, after increasing its stake in Bluewater, sees a golden opportunity in snapping up more assets

The Asda owners built a retail empire together from their Blackburn base. But when Mohsin Issa began a romance with the EY adviser Victoria Price, their paths split dramatically

IWG is scouring locations in a bet that flexible working will benefit as companies shrink their office space

Frasers, led by Michael Murray, Mike Ashley’s son-in-law, is understood to have paid less than £10m for the Wiggle brand and intellectual property

The consumer goods giant has been thrown into chaos by a US legal defeat after the infant formula Enfamil Premature 24 was held responsible for the death of a newborn

Bootmaker files High Court claim alleging that its competitor is manipulating Google searches so that lookalike products appear above its own brands

Sports supplement maker backed by JD Sports targets £500m listing, adding to tentative signs of revival in the City