The Sky News Business Podcast

On today's episode, Ian King speaks to Jacqueline Windsor, the head of retail at PwC, to discuss an improvement in consumer confidence over the past few months.He also discusses the UK's post-Brexit trade agreement with the chairman of Marks and Spencer - and whether it'll be good for business.And Easter is always a big time for the chocolate confectionary sector - Ian speaks to the co-founder of Hotel Chocolat about the food and drink industry.

Ian King is joined by Unite’s Matt Whaley, who discusses a demonstration by Google employees, following the tech giant’s announcement it would make 10,000 employees around the world redundant, plus there’s an interview with Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman, who believes company law is stuck in a 40-year time warp.AXA UK and Ireland chief executive Claudio Gienal is on the podcast to talk about statistics which claim almost half of the UK population is currently noy in a positive state of mental wellbeing, while Accesso’s CEO Steve Brown talks about his company’s financial results in a sector which focuses on entertainment venues and Quantexa’s Vishal Marria reveals how the analytics business has held a value of over $1billion.

Liz Martins, UK Economist at HSBC, joins Ian King to discuss figures from the Office for National Statistics, which showed the economy performed better than expected in the final three months of last year.Spain’s deputy Prime Minister and economy minister Nadia Calvino Santamaría discusses how the country’s performing economically, while Marco Forgione, Director General at The Institute of Export & International Trade, talks about the UK becoming a member of the Indo-Pacific trade bloc.Michael Kovacs, a founding partner at Castleforge, discusses the latest developments at Winchester House in London, plus there’s detail on how Luxembourg is moving towards sustainable finance with Nicolas Mackel, Chief Executive of Luxembourg for Finance, and Michael Rouse, from InPost, joins Ian to outline the company’s latest figures.

Ian King is joined by Steve Scrimshaw, Vice President of Siemens Energy UK & Ireland, to discuss the government's plans to drive what it hopes will be a revolution in the UK's energy sector.The chief executive and co-founder of BrewDog, James Watt , speaks to Ian about an investment comeptition being launched.And Jeremy de Maillar, Chief Executive of Zound, Industries discusses the takeover of the UK music brand Marshall Amplification.

Ian King speaks to Andrew Carter, the Chief Executive of Chapel Down, about the boom in English sparkling wine showing no signs of slowing down.He also discusses the Bank of England's calls for tighter regulation on UK pension funds.And he chats to Guive Balooch at French cosmetics giant L'Oréal about its new device aimed at helping people with limited hand and arm mobility apply lipstick without help.

On today's episode, Ian King speaks to the head of retail and consumer insight at analysts Kantar which reports supermarket inflation hit 17-point-five percent in the month to 19 March.Ian also takes a look at the Gambling Commission's biggest ever penalty, handed to three businesses owned by the William Hill group.And hear how one tech start-up is hoping to get to uncover the ever-growing fake pictures developed by artificial intelligence.

Ian King discusses a planned fourth major airline for the Gulf with aviation industry veteran Tony Douglas, who was previously CEO of Etihad.He also talks to our City Editor, Mark Kleinman, following reports Cineworld has been approached by the buyout titan CVC Capital Partners about a takeover of parts of the struggling group.

Ian King delivers some new figures which shows growth in the economy. He finds out about the age discrimination within recruitment by speaking to Lyndsey Simpson from 55/Redefined. Paul Keel, the Chief Executive of engineering firm the Smiths group also joins Ian to discuss their record sales growth. And he finds out more about our attitude to sustainable eating, with the co-founder of Honest Burgers, Tom Barton.

Ian King looks ahead to the prospect of another rise in interest rates. He's joined by the Team Principal of the Red Bull Formula One team, Christian Horner to discuss the sport's growing popularity. Ian also discusses how the global insurance industry's been impacted by the invasion of Ukrai

Ian King examines the latest inflation figures with Sky's business correspondent, Gurpreet Narwan. Ian speaks to chief executive of Openreach about government targets to deliver nationwide superfast broadband by 2030. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves joins Ian to chat about the economy and a very important chess mach. He also discusses post-covid recovery within the hospitality industry with the President of Operations at the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts company.