The Ian King Business Podcast

Ian King talks to: Erin Brookes from Alvarez and Marsal about the fall in retail sales as shoppers cut their spending on food; the Chief Executive of Rwanda Finance Limited about investing in the country; Tata Chemicals as it opens the country's biggest carbon capture plant; and Saudi Arabia's Industry Minister - as international relations with the country begin to thaw

In the latest episode, Ian King catches up with the latest on negotiations with RMT members on the second day of rail strikes.Chris Williamson from S&P Global Market Intelligence joins Ian to discuss figures which show the UK’s economy continues to grow, while Zoom’s CIO advisor Magnus Falk discusses the company’s future – which is being used less since people returned to offices following the worst of the Covid pandemic.Kalibrate’s Oliver Shaw talks about concerns people have about switching to electric cars, International Women in Engineering Day is celebrated – and after Sussex wine was given protected designation of origin status, Ian speaks to the founder of the Rathfinny estate.

Ian King assesses the latest inflation figures with Santander UK’s chief economist Victoria Clarke, and gets an update on the latest rail strike situation.The City of London’s Chris Hayward discusses a vision to transform the financial district to include more festivals, music and art, while Sift’s Tonia Luykx talks about online scammers who are using ‘content fraud’ to swindle customers on seemingly trustworthy sites.Among the other guests, founder of glamping company The Pop Up Hotel Mark Sorrill talks about the return of Glastonbury.

On the Ian King podcast: we have the government's take on today's rail strikes along with updates from Network Rail and the chief executive of UK Hospitality, Kate Nicholls; Andrew Lindsay, the chief executive of Telecom Plus, speaks about surviving in the energy sector; and Julia Hawkins of Phoenix Court Group talks about investment in high growth businesses

Samantha Washington speaks to Robert Hentschel, Chief Executive of motorcycle brand Norton about its new bike launching.Simi Lindgren, Chief Executive of Yuty, joins Samantha to talk about the tech start up making waves in the beauty industry.And the founders of Metropolis World's first metaverse city, Celeste, talk about the launch set for July.

Samantha Washington sits in for Ian King in today’s episode – but Ian makes an appearance to discuss the government’s digital strategy with minister Chris Philp.After chancellor Rishi Sunak launched a review of the UK’s advanced computing, IBM UK and Ireland CEO Sreeram Visvanathan speaks to Samantha.She also catches up with Andrew Williams from Halma, a “group of life-saving technology companies”.Consumer campaigner Justin Gutmann comes on the show to talk about suing Apple for £768m over a software update which effectively slowed down older iPhones.Following a warning that food prices could rise 15-percent this summer, James Walton, Chief Economist at the Institute of Grocery Distribution, joins Samantha – who also discusses digital security with Fran Rosch from ForgeRock.

Sky's Ian King finds out about Royal Mail's new parcel hub in Warrington. He'll also speak to the chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing to see how the pandemic surge in reading continues and there'll be more on the so-called Blue Economy.

On today's episode, Ian explores the latest unemployment figures.Plus, a look at how drinks companies are using crowdfunding to see growth. We also hear from the chief executive of a company that’s been looking at how the pandemic has forced employers to reconsider the number of days they ask employees to go into the office, as well as the kind of facilities they want to provide.

On today's episode, Ian looks at the UK’s economy as official figures show it contracted by 0.3% in April. The director-general of Britain’s biggest employers’ group, the CBI, reacts to the data. Plus, what can be expected from London Tech Week? Finally, we hear from a journalist involved in the Wirecard scandal in Germany.

In the latest podcast, Ian King catches up with Ross Mould from AJ Bell to discuss the Bank of England’s resolvability assessment of UK banks that they’re no longer “too big to fail”.He speaks to Christine Trodella from Meta about the Facebook company teaming up with McDonald’s and looks into whether football clubs are making as much money from fans as they could with Neil Joyce from CLV consultancy group.Ian’s also joined by a pizza restauranteur who’s turning one of his sites completely plant-based and to the chief executive of sneaker company LOCI.