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Setting off at Tower Bridge in London this morning the GB Row team, sponsored by British Gas, will be rowing non-stop around Great Britain in an attempt to break the world record of 26 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes set in 2005.
Infrastructure company Balfour Beatty said today that it continued to trade in line in the first six months of the year, boosted by infrastructure spending and cost cutting.
Plans by the owner of Homebase and Argos to offer directors huge cash bonuses came under sustained criticism today from investors angry that it ignored one of the largest protest votes in recent years.
Irish building supplies group Grafton posted a 31 percent fall in first-half turnover today and said the weakness of the UK and Irish housing markets has hit its profitability severely.
Rio Tinto sold virtually all of the UK part of its £9.3 billion rights offer, the world's fifth-biggest, easing its huge debt burden and putting the world's top iron ore miner back in growth mode.
Video games retailer Game Group today reported a fall in underlying sales but an increase in profit margins in its latest trading period.
Pubs group Greene King posted a smaller-than-expected fall in full-year profit and said it had benefited from an upturn in trading in recent weeks, driven by a sharp increase in sales of food.
World No. 2 brewer SABMiller will sell 10 percent of its South African unit to black investors in a deal worth £456 million to meet the country's affirmative action rules.