Global fast food giant McDonald's has named British Steve Easterbrook as its new CEO, with existing president and CEO Don Thompson retiring after 25 years of service.
Waitrose is the latest British business to promise a large scale recruitment drive this year, with plans to create 2,000 new jobs nationwide in 2015.
A geographical report from Nesta has found the UK's creative industries are distributed unevenly across the country, with 43 per cent of creative economy jobs in London and the south-east.
Oliver's Travels is luxury holiday and wedding company, which now claims to provide the perfect weather on couples' big days through its “cloud-bursting service”.
Some 44.8 per cent of British businesses had unfilled graduate vacancies in 2013 to 2014, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters, as AGR members said there were 1,422 positions that were not filled last year – partly due to the rejection of offers.
As technology plays a more prominent role in most businesses, counter offers are becoming common in order to retain IT staff, but seven out of ten professionals say the attempt to keep them will be too late.
Dropbox opened its first UK office in London on 22 January and marked the launch with a hackathon on 23-24 January, which 120 app developers joined to demonstrate their coding capabilities.
Online shopping in the UK is to experience growth this year as consumers are set to spend an average of £1,174 via the web in 2015, which is up 9.6 per cent on 2014.
Up to 8,000 businesses in Tech City will have the opportunity to “supercharge growth,” as Virgin Media Business has “vowed to transform internet connectivity” in London's digital hub.
Business secretary Vince Cable has claimed that businesses and consumers across Europe are being let down by the continent's “patchwork” approach to the digital economy, which is why he plans to create a “digital single market”.
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