Associated British Foods

Company intends to grow its number of stores from 13 to 60 over the next five years

Making sustainable clothing will mean either price increases or reduced profits

Parent’s share price drops as it says costs may increase but prices won’t

Oil stocks up as US government tells majors it will buy their reserves

Profits to beat expectations at Primark owner Associated British Foods

Overall gains capped by ongoing concerns over the Delta variant of coronavirus

Associated British Foods indicate sales advance over 200% year-on-year to €1.87bn

Retailer plans more stores in Central and Eastern Europe

Weston family appoint Credit Suisse to advise after unsolicited offer for group

Retailer has 36 stores waiting to reopen in the Republic and another 11 in the North

Canadian’s transatlantic empire included majority stake in company behind Penneys

Retailer had been in talks to take two floors once occupied by House of Fraser

Parent company raises its estimate of lost sales due to Covid-19 lockdowns this autumn to £430m

Iseq index witnesses huge jump as Ryanair climbs 14%

US set to vote in its most polarised presidential election in living memory

Primark’s profit plunged to £362m from £969m as pandemic measures shuttered stores

Stores in Ireland, France, Belgium, Wales, Catalonia, Slovenia are temporarily closed

Planet Business: Recapping the week ‘in a very specific and limited way’

Sterling slides on increasingly remote chance of UK-EU deal; Wall Street closed for Labor Day

Continuing Covid impact on city centre stores will mean a hit to full-year earnings

Ryanair closes higher on news that British government is to ramp up Covid testing plans

On the Iseq, Ryanair, CRH and AIB advance while Smurfit Kappa falls nearly 4%