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Retail sales rise; Stagecoach confident; Parsley Box prices IPO

Multrees Walk, shop, retail, Edinburgh
REFRESH PAGE FOR UPDATES 4.30pm: Market closes higher London stocks ended a difficult week on a high with the FTSE 100 rising 65.76 points to close at 6,740.59. 4pm: HostelRead More

Concern over lockdown

Stagecoach seeks taxpayer loan extension

Stagecoach
Stagecoach revenues are down sharply Transport company Stagecoach wants extra time to repay a £300 million taxpayer-backed loan as it remains uncertain over the return of passengers and the reopening ofRead More

Company Update

BT; Morrisons; Stagecoach; Barratt Developments

BT
BT has announced a 2% rise in annual pre-tax profit to £2.7 billion, despite price cuts at its Openreach business eroding sales by 1%.. Chief executive Philip Jansen, who tookRead More

CEO 'concerned' at ruling

Stagecoach ‘disqualified’ from UK rail franchise bids

Virgin Trains
Stagecoach operates a joint venture with Virgin Stagecoach says it has been told by the Department for Transport that it has been disqualified from three UK rail franchise competitions. ItRead More

New non-executive post

Dame Jayne-Anne joins board of transport firm Stagecoach

Jayne-Anne Gadhia of Virgin Money
Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia has been appointed a non-executive director of Stagecoach, while Karen Thomson will not be seeking re-election as a director at the Annual General Meeting. A Chartered Accountant, DameRead More

Group to refocus on UK

Stagecoach sells North America business for $271.4m

Martin Griffiths
Transport company Stagecoach has sold its North America business to private equity firm Variant Equity Advisers for $271.4 million (£214.6m). The deal includes $207m in cash and $64.4m in debt,Read More

Griffiths 'confident' of growth

Stagecoach in talks to sell US business as pressures build

Stagecoach
Stagecoach: ‘public transport central to government policy’   Transport company Stagecoach is in talks about a sale of all or part of its struggling US business as it combats competitiveRead More

Disappointment at costs

Stagecoach ‘surprised’ at losing East Coast franchise

Virgin Trains
Stagecoach chief executive, Martin Griffiths, expressed disappointment over the cost over-run at Virgin Trains

Leonard demands nationalisation

LNER takes to rails as Labour steps up campaign

First LNER trains
Labour will mark the return of East Coast Main Line trains to pubic ownership by launching ...

Ideas for enterprise

How to transform a bus into a business

Bedroam
Ever thought of transforming a bus into something creative?