20 Oct 2014:
Spirit, which owns 1,200 pubs, last month rejected an offer of 100p a share from its larger rival, which owns 1,900 pubs and employs 23,000 people
19 Oct 2014:
Candice Fonseca’s modest dream of selling cheese from behind a counter has exploded into a city-wide food empire. Interview by Killian Fox
19 Oct 2014:
Farewell to soggy sandwiches – this motorway stop alongside the M5 sells the finest locally sourced food and supports the community, writes Jay Rayner
19 Oct 2014:
When a Devon couple bought some goats on a whim at a farmers’ market, they didn’t realise it would be the start of something big. By Bob Granleese
17 Oct 2014:
Some of the UK’s most loved brands such as Paul A. Young, Rococo, Hotel Chocolat and Lindt showed their latest sweet treats at The Chocolate Show in London’s Olympia.
16 Oct 2014:
Meet the new iPad, same as the old iPad. Some of the most successful consumer products are ones that keep the same look for their entire lifetimes
16 Oct 2014:
Just as microbreweries are revolutionising the beer market, a new breed of microdairy is trying to do the same for milk. Tom Levitt reports
Deborah Orr: The big four supermarkets are seeing profits nosedive, and they can’t just blame Lidl and Aldi. Perhaps we’re all realising that big-box, one-stop shopping is a bit miserable