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A carbon dioxide plant is due to restart but meat processors warn it may take weeks for it to reach them.

The UK’s largest supermarket group plans to combine its buying power with the French retail giant.

“Innovation is like comedy, it’s getting the timing right”, says energy storage boss Simon Daniel.

Halo Top has only been going six years but is already the best-selling ice cream brand in the US.

Young women face an 11% smaller pension pot than men by the time they retire, an investment firms says.

In the past six months, about 1,200 shops run by major chains have either shut or are at risk.

‘I’m no Beckham’ quips England manager when quizzed about a spike in waistcoat sales.

The country is imposing dollar-for-dollar countermeasures against hundreds of American products.

The supermarket chain restricts how much soft drink customers can buy as the CO2 shortage continues.

Chair of the CBI in Northern Ireland says facts do not support some of the optimistic economic claims.

Carlos Ghosn says traditional car companies face many challenges in an era of automation and electrification.

Rail company could be stripped of services if there is no improvement soon after weeks of disruption.

A minimum three-year contract would allow people to put down more roots in their area, ministers say.

A change in the rules means millions more package holidays will be covered when something goes wrong.

The US president says he asked Saudi Arabia to increase oil production due to “turmoil in Iran”.

The move comes amid concern over the treatment of Windrush migrants and LGBT asylum seekers.

Discount retailer Poundworld is teetering on the brink. For staff and customers, it’s more than just a brand that could be lost.

Glasgow-based broadcaster STV pulls the plug on its second channel after a strategic review.

Leafy salad growers say the summer’s high temperatures have boosted demand but damaged crops.

The UK’s biggest steelworks at Port Talbot will become part of the newly merged group.

The US Commerce Department is probing the impact of foreign auto imports on national security.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt unveils a new NHS app which “puts patients in control”.

The Chinese government has recently been calling a number of businesses to task for calling Taiwan a country, as the BBC’s Cindy Sui reports.

Nissan is accused of exaggerating the benefits of its latest Leaf electric car model.

Canada also unveiled $2bn in aid to protect its steel and aluminium industries from the US tariffs.

A 3% rise in sales in the crucial North America region sends shares in the sportswear firm soaring.

How much of Ireland’s trade goes via ports in Great Britain?

Dame Inga Beale, the only woman to lead the 330-year-old insurance market, will leave next year.

Staff must switch to mobiles by the end of the summer as landline phones will be phased out.

Ryde Technologies says 2,000 “phantom bookings” have cost its drivers thousands of dollars.