Business

Poundland's owner is seeking to give evidence to MPs in private next week as it seeks to avoid an evidence session on the discount retailer's fate turning into "a show trial".

A banking technology business which wants to become one of the industry's leading platforms is plotting a £20m fundraising as it seeks to expand globally.

And so, at last, it begins. 

The embattled owner of Poundland has parachuted in a team of top London lobbyists as it faces intensifying political pressure over the discount retailer's fate.

Allwyn, the operator of the National Lottery, is launching a further shake-up of its leadership team as it seeks to arrest an alarming decline in sales.

A healthtech company run by one of Britain's most prominent venture capitalists has agreed to buy a women's health specialist amid rising corporate demand for the provision of fertility and other sexual health-related benefits to employees.

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Cyber attacks have affected the UK meat processing industry, a top security official has said in the wake of hacks that hit supermarkets across Europe.

A major Poundland supplier has urged the government to "thoroughly investigate" the conduct of its majority owner as the discount chain teeters on the brink of collapse.

Poundland's controlling shareholder has told the government it stands by its stewardship record even as it faces mounting pressure over the crisis which has left the discount retailer on the brink of administration.