Dom Gaynor owns karting business TeamSport, and can count the likes of One Direction, Simon Cowell, Tom Daley, Ellie Goulding and Tulisa as customers,...

Sports Direct continues to buck the high street trend, after it revealed sales rose 21.1% to £589.5 million on Thursday, with gross profits jumping 2...

Carlsberg, the fourth largest brewer in the world, has blamed a 3% reduction in British sales on the wash-out summer of 2012, which cancelled out the ...

Two of Britain's best known holiday makers have reported a surge in sales in the UK, suggesting that while Brits may be struggling with cash constrain...

A Ryanair customer's battle to receive compensation for her flight after it was delayed by 2010's ash cloud crisis could result in a rise in air fares...

BSkyB has seen revenue, profits and subscriptions all rise in the past six months, helping the company to maintain good growth in a tough consumer mar...

Is dry January harming the alcohol industry? The phenomenon, popular with city workers but increasingly being adopted by adults outside of the sou...

UK pub chain Marston's reported a 1.2% increase in like-for-like sales at its pubs for the 16 weeks to 19 January, helped by a 3.5% growth in food sal...

The row over the amount of tax pubs have to pay looks set to rear its head again after JD Wetherspoon has blamed a profits squeeze on higher tax bills...

Festive spirits were clearly on the menu for pub group Greene King after it reported record Christmas bookings and strong like-for-like sales across t...

Goals Soccer Centres has reported a 6% rise in overall sales and a 2% rise in like-for-like sales in its year end statement, released on Thursday. ...

London used to be heaving with distilleries, but Jamie Baxter has opened the city of London's first one for 200 years. Here, he tells us why gin is...

2012 has seen some significant business trends - the rise of the business of lending, rather than buying goods, the rise of the electronic cigarette a...

Has the shine come off online gaming? One leading company in the field, Sportingbet, has been hit by £46 million of losses in the last financial y...

Online sports betting giant Betfair suffered a 22% pre-tax profits drop in the first half of 2012, but group revenues increased from £191 million to ...

Whitbread, owner of Costa Coffee, Premier Inn and Beefeater, has reported strong sales in the run up to Christmas. The group, which is the UK's lar...

As the season for office Christmas parties approaches, a series of new mobile apps could herald the arrival of a new way to book hotel rooms. Over ...

Paul Gibbons is one of the founding fathers of Auto Trader, the iconic second hand car sales magazine – and latterly, website. Nowadays however, ...

The owner of the All Bar One, Harvester and O’Neill’s chains has reported that end of year pre-tax profits are up to £162m from £156m last year....

Lager sales volumes in Europe improved by 9% for SABMiller, driven by selective price reductions and growth in the sector. The British owner of Pil...

Halloween is not just big business in the US, it’s increasingly becoming a much-needed boost for the UK's retail, leisure and tourism sectors too. ...

The UK's market leading cinema chain Cineworld has announced a further three sites for new cinemas in Bracknell, Swindon and Broughton Park in Chester...

Cinema giant Odeon is one step closer to acquiring one of Birmingham's key cinemas after the Office For Fair Trading said it would not refer a takeove...

Hotel chain Travelodge's landlords and creditors have backed a rescue deal, safeguarding the future of the brand and its 6,000 employees. Creditors...