COMPANIES

Builder Barratt cashes in as mortgage-easing schemes such as Help to Buy drive UK housing recovery.

Airbus commanded 51% gross market share in aircraft category above 100 seats at year end.

Capita also recently took over G4S and Serco's electronic tagging contracts with the Ministry of Justice

Companies are planning to bid for index businesses of Barclays and Northwestern Mutual Life.

US District Judge denied Apple's plea to block antitrust monitor from probing its top officials Tim Cook and Al Gore.

US-based Beam owns premium liquor brands including Maker's Mark, Jim Beam and Canadian Club.

Second food-safety scare at Fonterra Cooperative in six months.

Virgilio Camacho's attempts to stop illegal iron ore mining probably cost him his life.

Controversial union leader Arthur Scargill is in trouble over alleged abuse of funds.

But there is no evidence that the organisations have broken any rules.

BskyB, Canal Plus, as well as Fox, Warner Bros, Sony and Paramount deals under microscope.

Omnicom and Publicis merger pushed WPP into the second place as globe's biggest ad group

Reed says employers need to invest more in their workforce to retain top talent.

Walmart US CFO Brett Biggs to replace Smith.

Neiman Marcus, Target and some three other firms were victims of data theft.

Britain's largest sporting goods retailer has acquired 56.8 million shares, representing 4.63% in Debenhams

Royal Mail's director of regulation, pricing and government affairs will assume Mark Higson's role

Recruiters say banks are concentrating on growth after years of restructuring

Jaguar Land Rover delivers record global sales of nearly 500,000 vehicles in 2013.

South Korea's Posco get permission to build $12.6bn steel mill in eastern India.

New Orleans court affirms BP's $9.2bn partial settlement.

The law firm says the overall object is to make sure it never loses out on talent.

Google's proposal to improve voter access to information ditched over spying concerns.

Transport for London (TFL) angers Tube workers with plans to close all 260 ticket offices.

India paid over 43% of €560m contract for 12 AW101 choppers.

Alcoa CEO says no plans for legal action against London Metal Exchange.

The CMI says building a world-class workforces is a top challenge for CEOs.

Overstock.com struck a deal with Coinbase to process bitcoin payments on its site.