UK manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate in 18 months in July, helped by a sharp pick up in car production, official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said factory output rose by 0.9% from June – three times what analysts had forecast. However manufacturing output...

Denting hopes that a surge in consumer spending would help Europe’s largest economy quickly climb out of recession. The provisional data published by the Federal Statistics Office on Monday fell far short of analysts’ expectations for the retail sector. Prior to the announcement, economists polled by Reuters news agency...

Peter Cullimore scooped a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday night at the Trade Association Forum awards. Anita Holbrow, Director of Marketing and Member Services said: “I would like to congratulate Peter on behalf of the REC on receiving this award. Peter Cullimore has been at the forefront of this...

Following Wednesday’s agreement within the G-8 on limiting the increase in the Earth’s temperatures to within two degrees of 18th-century levels, another eight countries sign on. Will it make a difference? Leaders of the world’s biggest polluting countries pledged on Thursday to step up their battle against climate change,...

Eager to dispel doubts about the difficulties of executing Pfizer Inc.’s $68 billion tie-up with Wyeth, Pfizer’s CEO said it will be done more like microsurgery than just stitching two huge corporations together. Jeffrey Kindler has spent two years transforming Pfizer into smaller, entrepreneurial research and marketing business units,...