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Riverford sales rise 6% as UK organics market enjoys biggest boom in two decades

3 février 2026 à 06:00

Sector bounces back as consumers focus on provenance and healthy eating, but is still well behind Europe

Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market’s biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford.

The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers.

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© Photograph: Riverford

© Photograph: Riverford

Reçu hier — 2 février 2026 6.9 📰 Infos English

Betfred brothers top list of UK’s biggest taxpayers with £400m bill

1 février 2026 à 16:55

Harry Styles is highest-contributing celebrity and Erling Haaland the youngest entry in Sunday Times tax list

Tim Martin, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Erling Haaland and Mo Salah are among the UK’s 100 biggest taxpayers, according to new rankings.

The billionaire brothers behind the gambling firm Betfred topped the Sunday Times 2026 tax List. Fred and Peter Done paid £400.1m in tax, about half of which relates to gambling duty from their betting shop empire.

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© Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters

© Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters

Reçu — 1 février 2026 6.9 📰 Infos English

UK hospitality firms demand more help with business rates amid questions over Heathrow discount

1 février 2026 à 17:52

Airports identified as biggest winners of government’s £4.3bn support package with Heathrow alone taking £900m discount

Struggling hotels, restaurants and nightclubs are calling for more financial help with business rates after it emerged that Heathrow is among the biggest beneficiaries of a multibillion-pound package of state support.

The UK’s biggest airport is in line for a discount of nearly £900m on its rates bill over the next three years. That is a fifth of the total £4.3bn “transitional relief” fund announced by the chancellor in the budget for all businesses facing big bill increases.

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© Photograph: Avpics/Alamy

© Photograph: Avpics/Alamy

Reçu — 31 janvier 2026 6.9 📰 Infos English

Can French Connection make FCUK fashionable again?

31 janvier 2026 à 15:00

With a North American licensing deal under its belt, the reinvented high-street giant is growing again under new owners and a global strategy

French Connection is back on the trail of global expansion with the aid of its cheeky initials-based slogan that made it so popular in the late 1990s.

The label once known for clothes bearing FCUK is seeking to reinvent itself again under the ownership of a group of British entrepreneurs based in the north of England who rescued it in 2021.

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© Photograph: French Connection

© Photograph: French Connection

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