The team at Independent Retail News and TalkingRetail.com will be taking a break for the festive season from 23 December and ...

A shop theft epidemic, a punishing UK budget, energy costs on the march again. Quite understandably, there’s a lot of doom ...

The Post Office has announced a new initiative to centralise and simplify access to wellbeing resources for postmasters, ...

For another year running, Quality Street has been named the food and drink brand that ‘Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas ...

Just as there is sometimes a danger that a country can talk itself into a recession, there’s a danger in the independent ...

AF Blakemore, one of the UK’s largest privately owned family businesses and wholesaler for Spar stores in Wales, Central and Southeast England, has unveiled the items which Brits make a crisis dash ...

Independent retailers have weathered one of their most challenging years in 2024, with multiple headwinds affecting the sector, according to the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira). With ...

Brioche Pasquier UK has announced its partnership with Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, starting with a festive promise to match the funding from the charity’s Christmas Appeal with the ...

Vapers have been airing their views in Westminster as government calls for evidence as part of the Tobacco and Vapes bill. We Vape founder and campaigner Mark Oates hit the streets of Whitehall to ...