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Experts warn hosueholds to beware autumn price hikes from energy firms as Bulb raises electricity tariff for second time this year Bulb to hike electricity bills by £53 a year from Sunday 18 October It had already increased its average electricity tariff in March by £22 a year The supplier said wholesale prices have picked … Read more
PUNT OF THE WEEK: Uranium oxide supplier Yellow Cake buys back shares as prices for the nuclear fuel rise By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 14 August 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 14 August 2020 What is it? An AIM-quoted company which holds uranium oxide and supplies it from a Canadian … Read more
The popular energy challenger Bulb has been ordered to pay £1.76million to customers after it overcharged thousands and blocked switches. The supplier – which has taken a lot of business from the Big Six energy firms in recent years – was told by Ofgem to pay out after it found around 61,000 customers were affected … Read more
Secret to the perfect cuppa! Twinings boss who supplies the Queen says the teabag should be left in for four minutes and milk added to the mug BEFORE pouring in the brew Queen’s official tea supplier has shared its secrets to making the perfect cuppa English firm Twinings has been supplying British monarchy with tea … Read more
Boohoo supplier was hit with a £15m bill after failing to pay its staff the national minimum wage By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:27 BST, 14 July 2020 | Updated: 23:27 BST, 14 July 2020 Staffline has supplied agency workers to Boohoo’s warehouses for around four years A supplier to Boohoo was hit … Read more
Sweatshop scandal hits Boohoo rival: Quiz launches probe into claims supplier paid staff £3 an hour By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 13 July 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 13 July 2020 As larger rival Boohoo continued to reel from the sweatshop scandal, Quiz’s shares fell more than 20 per cent … Read more
Fast-fashion brand Quiz has suspended one of its suppliers amid claims that its factory workers in Leicester are paid as little as £3-an-hour. It comes after an undercover reporter for The Times was told by bosses at a factory, where she saw Quiz-branded jackets, she would be paid at well below the legal minimum wage. The journalist was … Read more
Catering supplier to Bake Off, Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen has to turn down dozens of suspicious orders for nitrous oxide as ‘hippy crack’ becomes big business The Manchester-based company Carrick exports nitrous oxide to companies Owner Chris Palmers is now clamping down on high numbers being ordered Colourless laughing gas is listed under the 2016 … Read more
As businesses begin to reopen this week after several months out of action, many owners will be looking to cut down on their spending to ride out the strife the pandemic has caused. One way to potentially achieve this is to save on energy bills – small businesses are estimated to overpay by an average … Read more
Apple supplier says iPhone 12 launch WILL be delayed until October at the earliest due to coronavirus pandemic iPhone 12 launch is set to be pushed back by at least a month to October 2020 Apple and its component supplier Broadcom have been hit by the coronavirus Broadcom’s CEO referred to a ‘large North American’ phone … Read more