By: Clara Guibourg

Clara Guibourg is an Online Writer at City A.M. She can be contacted at clara.guibourg@cityam.com. She is particularly passionate about women in business, technology and telecoms.

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Amazon expands Pantry online supermarket as it lays out fresh challenge to UK’s Big Four supermarkets Asda, Tesco, Sainbury’s and Morrisons

December 29, 2015

Amazon’s foray into the supermarket sector has quickly become a success, after the online retail giant announced plans to expand its new Pantry service in the UK next year. In other words, there's more disruption ahead for the UK’s troubled traditional supermarkets. The “Big Four” – Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons – are struggling to keep up [...]
Fitness trackers, men’s grooming and FIFA 16: Amazon reveals the 6 products that defined 2015

December 27, 2015

We are what we shop, after all, and if our online shopping baskets are anything to go by we’re getting into fitness trackers and male grooming – as well as rediscovering lost skills such as haberdashery. Online retail giant Amazon has just released its annual Winter Report, revealing the bestselling and fastest growing product categories [...]
Boxing Day sales 2015: UK footfall soars to defy online sales which dominated Black Friday and Christmas Eve

December 27, 2015

Black Friday and pre-Christmas shopping may have been a letdown for brick and mortar retailers, but Boxing Day certainly delivered. In-store shopper traffic soared by 3.36 per cent year-on-year on 26 December, according to data from retail intelligence firm FootFall, showing that the rise is mainly driven by an increase in shopping centre footfall counteracting [...]
UK flooding costs: Insurance losses from Storm Eva and Desmond top £1bn

December 27, 2015

The economic damage of the torrential rains and floods that are forcing hundreds to flee from their homes in northern England could be as high as £1bn. Storm Eva has struck Yorkshire and Lancashire hard over Christmas, flooding many of the same regions that were hit by Storm Desmond just weeks ago. Although it may [...]
Need funding? Alternative finance providers more than twice as likely as banks to approve small businesses loans

December 27, 2015

Small businesses are more than twice as likely to get their loans approved through alternative finance than traditional banks, a fresh report has found. Over four in five, 82 per cent, of small businesses that went to alt fi providers got their funding approved, according to research from finance supermarket Funding Options. Banks, meanwhile, only [...]
Council tax soars by 58 per cent as UK councils prepare for more tax hikes following slashed grants in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement

December 27, 2015

Council tax has soared over the past 19 years, shows new research revealing that the average bill has risen 58 per cent since 1996. As councils get ready to settle their budgets for next year, several are already considering tax hikes following the slashed grants to local authorities announced by chancellor George Osborne in the [...]
UK floods: Hundreds forced to flee their homes in West Yorkshire and Lancashire as Met Office issues red weather warnings

December 27, 2015

Hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes in Yorkshire and Lancashire as the Met Office issues two red weather warnings for the severe floods that have struck northern England. Towns across the region have been flooded following torrential rains, and severe flood warnings have been issued even in the city of Leeds. [...]
All I want for Christmas is…: Christmas gift requests on Twitter reveal Apple, Nike and Victoria’s Secret as most popular brands

December 24, 2015

What did you put on your wishlist this year? Thanks to the wonders of technology, we may be able to guess. Santa may be making his list and checking it twice, but as for the rest of us, we seem to be making our lists and then tweeting them twice. As social media analytics firm [...]
Christmas gift ideas 2015: Bad news, no one likes getting charity donations and socially responsible gifts for Christmas

December 24, 2015

Did you get sick of consumer madness and opt to give your friends a donation to charity instead this year? Choosing to give a charity donation might seem like a great antidote to consumer mania – not least because you avoid having to battle it out with other frenzied last-minute shoppers over the final pair of Star [...]
Corporate hacks doubled in 2015: The finance sector was cybercrime’s biggest victim, with banks, investment funds and exchanges including bitcoin most likely to be targeted by cyber attacks

December 24, 2015

Corporate hacks doubled in 2015, new research shows, with financial services more exposed to attacks than any other sector. Financial services were most likely to be targeted by hackers – particularly investment funds, banks, and stock and currency exchanges. Exchanges dealing in digital currencies like bitcoin have soared in popularity among cyber crooks. Some six in 10 of all [...]

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