COMPANIES

Travel sickness claims have rocketed 500% over the last three years.

Whitbread is battling competition from the growth of independent coffee houses and Airbnb.

Since the 2008 financial crisis Barclays has shed thousands of staff, axed leaders and changed direction – only to change back again.

Some City voices say the Barclays Four spared UK taxpayers bailing out yet another bank.

Four key senior executives helped the bank raise £11.8bn from Qatar and avoid a UK government bailout.

Serious Fraud Office charges bank and former executives over lender's moves to raise cash during the financial crisis.

The firm received £94m for the merger between Tobler and Walter Meier.

Merger of market leaders would create the UK's largest asset manager

Boeing did not say who had placed the orders for the jets but said it showed strong demand for the new model.

The Office Group has clients such as Facebook, Coca-Cola, and Santander.

The online takeaway firm operates in over 40 countries and has deals with 150,000 restaurants.

The carmarker plans to boost the development of its self-driving and electric cars.

Co-op Group and US hedge funds are at loggerheads over funding the pensions of 90,000 members in the bank's scheme.

Openbank's boss discusses agility and a 'mobile first' strategy for Spain's first full-service digital bank.

The US online group will greatly expand its presence in the grocery market in America and the UK.

The US fast-food giant has called time on the event it has backed since the Montreal games in 1976.

The supermarket allowed 23,500 litres of petrol to escape from a petrol station in east Lancashire.

The operator's fault affected parts of London, Kent and Hampshire.

Regulator is expected to hand down fine over abuses at the tech firm's Google Shopping service.

The UK's biggest supermarket saw strong growth in fresh food and healthier options.

MacKenzie is a former chief executive of Australian packaging company Amcor.

The US sportswear brand said it will focus on 12 key cities as it bids to boost growth.

The carrier's IT failure saw over 700 flights cancelled and left 75,000 passengers stranded.

Stores that sell big ticket items such as the sofa chain are usually the first to go into consumer downturns.

Dougal Gunn Sharp reveals why the Scottish brewer's launch in China is an exciting challenge.

Competition and Markets Authority is concerned that homes are breaking consumer law.

England's biggest water company has suffered a year to forget leaking both water and profits.

The 340-year-old property firm said it will build 1,500 new homes and create over 900 new jobs.

The fine comes three months after England's biggest water company was fined a record £20m for dumping sewage into the Thames.