J Sainsbury

Heavy discounting adds to tough trading conditions for group

Flipkart’s logistics, payments and apparel businesses ‘offer new areas of growth’

Qatar Investment Authority is supportive of the merger talks, a source said

Supermarket group expects full-year profit to exceed analyst estimate of €631m

Swedish flat-pack furniture empire says costs have jumped 13.7% due to sterling’s fall

Retailer forced to cancel thousands of online grocery orders in UK due to technology glitch

Peugeot joins Dell in raising prices on back of sterling’s post-referendum weakness

Walmart China boss Sean Clarke to take over

‘Can we knowingly vote for a recession?’ chancellor George Osborne asks

A round up of business events happening this week

Low volumes traded in Dublin as Kingspan, BoI, FBD and Smurfit make gains

In Dublin, Ryanair advances 2.6% in line with travel stock rebound across Europe

Supermarket group ponders whether to boost its bid for Argos owner Home Retail Group

Deal will combine two of the UK’s biggest retailers in an effort to fight back against competition

Homebase to rebrand as Bunnings in Ireland and the UK as it goes head-to-head with B&Q

Fianna Fáil urges Ministers not to attend opening of new call centre in Limerick