Damage limitation was the order of the day at Centrica on Monday, but the British Gas parent parent company knows its public image has been hammered once again on the back of its latest trading update.
Business success in difficult economic times comes to those who take their responsibilities seriously and look for new ways to address the material concerns of their key stakeholders. For us at British Gas, this is the cornerstone of our corporate responsibility strategy.
The number of UK children living in fuel poverty has risen to 1.6 million as British Gas revealed they made £606 million in profit last year from the...
British Gas owner Centrica is set to make profits of £1.4 billion this year, making it the second energy supplier to announce profits at a time when ...
Downing Street has called for a speedy inquiry into allegations that Britain's £300 billion wholesale gas market has been "regularly" manipulated by ...
Today's evidence from R3, the insolvency practitioners, that the rapid and rabid growth of Britain's payday loan industry is leading people to go hungry in order to repay these debts, is saddening but not surprising to me.
The announcement by British Gas that it is putting up its prices by 6% this winter is tantamount to a death sentence for many of the most vulnerable i...
Fears that more households will be plunged into a "long, cold winter" were fuelled on Friday after two major energy companies hiked their prices. E...
David Cameron addressed the party faithful, British Gas put its prices up and the EU won the Nobel Peace Prize. It was, we think you'll agree, quite a...
Utility providers blame rises in wholesale gas prices, Government policy, the cost of using the National Grid network and investment in infrastructure...
British Gas has confirmed it will hike up gas and electricity tariffs by 6% from next month, or £80 a year - leaving consumer groups warnings some ho...
Dozens of new gas power stations could be built across the UK to help slash long-term energy prices. Energy Secretary Ed Davey told The Times he wi...
British businesses are missing out on falling electricity rates because energy suppliers are rolling over their contracts, a survey has found. Stat...
Imagine a world without curiosity. A world in which Isaac Newton simply picked up the apple and took a bite, rather than questioning why it fell and developing his theory of gravitation; a world in which Thomas Edison never felt the urge to experiment with electric lighting until he was able to create the first light bulb safe enough for use in the home, and a world in which Steve Jobs never pondered whether a mobile phone could do more than make calls. Makes you think, doesn't it?
Centrica, the owners of British Gas have seen increased profits at its residential arm by 23%, a percentage which may anger customers who have experie...
Britain has won 76 Nobel Prizes for science and technology: more than anywhere else in Europe. Yet the RSA report has revealed that Britons are now more interested in experiences than they are in the pursuit of knowledge. Our hunger for knowledge becomes shallow rather than deep and impactful.
British Gas owner Centrica warned on Friday that costs of energy will continue to rise. Citing the rise in wholesale gas prices, Centrica said it w...
I have recently changed my energy supplier after staying loyal to one of the 'big six' for years. It's not that the supplier needed changing because of a gross lack of quality but, at the same time, I didn't just stay with them because they were particularly great. No, the real reason I changed is because I realised there is an alternative.
Almost half of the energy used by British business is wasted when employees aren't at work, a report has claimed. British Gas said that 46% of the ...
British Gas, the UK's biggest energy supplier, has announced an average 5% reduction in its standard domestic electricity prices, a day after its riva...
Complaints about the "big six" energy firms soared by 26% over the summer as hostility against the sector continued to mount, a watchdog has said. ...
Centrica has signed a £13bn deal with the Norwegian company Statoil to supply gas to the UK, in a deal that the company said would be a boost to ener...
The North Sea could still contain more than £1 trillion-worth of oil and gas, energy minister Fergus Ewing has said. Mr Ewing told MSPs that with ...
British Gas is planning to cut around 850 jobs after reviewing resource levels in its services business, the company has announced. The cuts, revea...
Scrapbook can’t imagine Labour front bencher Diane Abbott was too pleased with herself after re-tweeting a YouGov poll during today’s two minutes ...
