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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce profits double as turnaround gathers pace

    Shares in UK engine maker jump as group raises forecasts for year

    A Rolls-Royce UltraFan demonstrator engine
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Vauxhall owner Stellantis to make electric vans at Luton plant

    Carmaker plans ‘limited’ production of battery vehicles from next year but full conversion of site depends on state support

    An Opel van on the assembly line at the Vauxhall plant in Luton
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
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    How Patrick Grant fashioned a new direction at business school

    Study and an advert in the FT helped him start again as an entrepreneur and TV presenter

  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Sunak’s hollow pledge to Welsh steelworkers puts focus on green jobs

    Port Talbot closures raise questions over what net zero means for areas blighted by industrial decline

    Tata Steel workers protest against the company’s decision to close its blast furnaces in Port Talbot
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Q&AMy First Million
    My First Million: Tom Broughton, founder of Cubitts

    Far-sighted vision to shake up the staid sector of opticians

    Tom Broughton at the Cubitts store in Cheapside, London
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    UK car industry ‘back in the game’ after £24bn investment pledged in single year

    Nissan, BMW and JLR spending decisions come as output passed 1mn vehicles a year

    An employee prepares to attach a wheel to a Range Rover SUV on the production line at the Jaguar Land Rover vehicle manufacturing plant in Solihull, UK
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    UK government eyes AstraZeneca factory expansion deal

    State aid package worth tens of millions of pounds expected as part of any agreement

    AstraZeneca’s plant in Speke near Liverpool
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A step into the unknown for Britain’s steel industry

    Closing its blast furnaces will leave the UK having to make the metal from scrap

    Blast Furnace number four at the Tata Steel Port Talbot
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    News in-depthTata Steel Ltd
    Steel town Port Talbot braces for impact of Tata closure

    Unions warn that decision to shut down blast furnaces will have ‘devastating’ effect

    Tata Steel site in Port Talbot, seen from a residential street. It is estimated that at least three jobs locally are reliant on every job in the steel works
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel to close last two blast furnaces in Port Talbot

    Sweeping restructuring will result in loss of up to 2,800 jobs

    A blast furnace at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel to lay off 2,800 workers in major UK restructuring

    Port Talbot steel plant to bear brunt of job losses as part of Indian owner’s transition to greener form of steelmaking

    The Tata steelworks in Port Talbot
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Workers at Welsh steel plant braced for widespread job losses

    Meeting between Tata Steel management and unions expected to confirm Port Talbot will bear brunt of 3,000 redundancies

    An operator works by a blast furnace at the Tata Steel Port Talbot works
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Dyson James Group Ltd
    Dyson picks JLR battery expert as next chief executive

    Hanno Kirner to take charge next month as engineering company focuses on new technologies and industries

  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Manufacturers more optimistic about UK as base of operations than a year ago

    Survey by Make UK found almost half of respondents expected conditions to improve in 2024

    A welder at work at a factory in Thirsk, North Yorkshire
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    BAE Systems PLC
    BAE to restart M777 howitzer production as Ukraine war ignites demand

    UK’s biggest defence contractor signs initial agreement with US Army for spare parts while interest from Europe, Asia and the Americas rises

    Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Chinese carmaker Chery eyes UK factory this decade

    State-owned company set to enter British market with a range of petrol, hybrid and electric cars

    A Chery car on sale in Sydney, Australia
  • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
    Hitachi Ltd
    Hitachi UK rail plant suffers multimillion-pound writedown

    Plight of North East factory and wider dearth of orders highlight fears over future of UK’s train manufacturers

    Hitachi’s manufacturing plant in Newyton Aycliffe
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Brexit
    EU offers battery makers €3bn to jump start electric vehicle industry

    Subsidy is part of a deal with the UK to postpone tariffs on EV trade

    An electric vehicle battery being made in Germany
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Semiconductors
    UK backs chipmaker Pragmatic to boost domestic tech manufacturing

    The £182mn financing sets Cambridge-based group on track to become Britain’s biggest semiconductor supplier by volume

    Pragmatic Park in Durham, UK
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    UK manufacturers face EU trading hurdles 3 years after Brexit

    Trade body finds ‘little improvement’ in ability of businesses to export to the bloc

    A glassblower preparing a lead crystal whisky tumbler in a factory in Ulverston, England
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota explores UK investments after hybrid ban postponed

    Japanese group says decision to allow sales until 2035 has helped it ‘remain competitive’

    Work on a hydrogen-powered Toyota Hilux
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce targets vast upturn in profits

    Chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic sets out ambitious targets as part of sweeping overhaul

    Tufan Erginbilgic
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    LexNissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan: UK bet charges up carmaker’s electric plans  Premium content

    Company puts its pedal to the metal despite slowing EV demand

    A Nissan plant in Japan
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan to lead £2bn electric-car investment in Sunderland plant

    Deal would turn facility into all-EV factory as Japanese group transitions models to green energy

    Nissan’s Qashqai car in a Nissan factory in Sunderland, England
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    UK economy
    UK business activity grows marginally in November

    Better than expected PMI data raises hopes that economy will avoid stagnation in final quarter

    Customers at an Itsu restaurant in Battersea, London
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