News McDonald’s Launches First Plant-Based Burger In UK And Ireland The fast food giant will trial the new £3.49 McPlant in 10 restaurants in Coventry from September 29 and a further 250 outlets from… Josie Clarke 09th Sep
News First Irish Amazon Warehouse Creates 500 Jobs The online retail giant said it is opening the fulfilment centre in Dublin to meet customer demand. Cate McCurry 09th Sep
News Selco Launches Lorry Driver Training Academy To Help Ease National Shortage The building materials supplier is itself struggling to fill more than 20 HGV driver vacancies. Holly Williams 08th Sep
News Oxbotica To Develop Multi-Purpose Self-Driving Vehicle With AppliedEV Self-driving software startup teamed up with AppliedEV to develop a fully autonomous vehicle Nick Carey 08th Sep
News Virgin Media O2 Hyperfast Broadband Rollout Passes 10m Homes Milestone Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden congratulated the company on its ‘excellent progress’. Jamie Harris 07th Sep
News Tesco: Let Us Use Apprenticeship Levy Funds To Teach Workers To Drive Supermarket bosses want changes to be made to the scheme to allow them to offer more high quality, retail-specific training. August Graham 07th Sep
News BMW Group Unveils Plan To Cut Carbon Emissions Of Cars By 40% Boss Oliver Zipse said the German carmaker is ‘committing ourselves to a clear course for achieving the 1.5 degree target’. Neil Lancefield 03rd Sep
News JCB To Recruit 100 New Welders As Demand For Machines Hits ‘Historic Highs’ The company said it was hiring staff for its World Headquarters and plants in Staffordshire. Matthew Cooper 03rd Sep
News Bosses Fear Supply Chain Disruption As One Of Top Threats To Growth – Poll The KPMG CEO survey found 59% of UK bosses have seen their business supply chain come under pressure during the pandemic. Holly Williams 01st Sep
News Former HSBC Boss To Lead New UK Infrastructure Bank John Flint will start as chief executive of the bank on September 27 and will be based at its headquarters in Leeds. Holly Williams 01st Sep
News Super Sheds Built Across UK As Online Retail Boom Sparks Warehouse Demand Almost 15 million sq ft of new super sheds were built in England and Wales in 2020. Henry Saker-Clark 31st Aug