COMPANIES

Ikea founder quits the board of Inter IKEA Group but Mathias Kamprad takes over

Businesses should be incentivised to take on apprenticeships if we want to tackle unemployment, says UKCES Commissioner Scott Johnson

Chairman says bank is working with new watchdog PRA and appoints Morrisons' Richard Pennycook as finance director

Nomura resumes paying out bonuses while Daiwa doubles top executive compensation and aims to hire more bankers

Investors will track services PMI data from the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Breaking the glass ceiling means more than increasing boardroom pioneers such as Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer

British Retail Consortium/Nielsen Shop Price Index shows easing food inflation.

First-quarter net profit soars 584.6% to €1.95bn from a 60% stake sale in Swedish retailer ICA.

Former finance chief is fined €630,000 but dodges prison sentence for mis-leading BNP Paribas in loan negotiations

International Monetary Fund tells French President Francois Hollande that economic reforms programme needs "powering up".

Trading profit rose 7.9% in third quarter, despite disappointing European sales.

Parliamentary Commission for Banking Standards mulls splitting RBS into 'good' and 'bad' bank but will not delay privatisation.

ONS infographics on foreign companies snapping up British businesses, in lieu of tumbling domestic market activity

Foreign companies buy more UK firms as domestic deals fall to lowest number since ONS data began in 1969

Primark will sell 20 womenswear products online under a partnership with ASOS.

Fashion chain New Look, which signed October deal with ASOS, returned to profit in 2012/13.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO)'s World of Work Report reveals mass unemployment and heightened riot and strike risk

UK's second-largest water utility says LongRiver group's offer undervalues company.

International Labour Organisation warns burgeoning unemployment and gulf between rich and poor are major trigger.

Institute for Fiscal Studies study shows better-off hit most after recession, but welfare cuts mean it's the poorest's turn.

Barclays, Citigroup, CLSA, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley welcome Infosys' co-founder's return.

Warwick Business School, Cardiff University and Loughborough University research shows firms’ performances falls further behind their industry rivals

Concept Cupboard's Adam Ball says we must not let our intentions become meaningless rhetoric

France plans to close loopholes that allow groups like Apple and Google to pay little or no corporation tax

State-owned RBS boasts of lending growth to consumers and SMEs following Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme.

Markit's Purchasing Managers Index at highest level since 2012.

Commodities giant fires workers across three of its chrome mines in South Africa for going on illegal strike

IGas shares soar by 15% on estimates that it alone could garner 170 trillion cubic feet in the unconventional gas

Christophe de Margerie says Europe will see oil plants shutting down on lack of demand and carbon emission targets