Danish toymaker Lego said on Wednesday it would close all of its stores, except for those in China, until at least March 27 due to the spread of coronavirus.
IKEA, the world's biggest furniture brand, is temporarily closing more stores as the coronavirus spreads, including all 50 in its second-biggest market the United States.
Rolls-Royce motor cars said it would suspend production at its British plant for two weeks to ensure the health of its employees.
EasyJet launched an early sale on cut-price winter 2020-21 flights, even as the airline industry heads into a deepening coronavirus crisis that threatens to ground most of the British low-cost carrier's planes.
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China's Baidu Inc will raise staff salaries amid the coronavirus outbreak, the search engine company's CEO told staff in a meeting, two sources familiar with the matter said. Robin Li also told staff that the company had a cash pile of around 130 billion yuan (US$18.5 billion) ......
Restaurants are reopening, traffic and factories are stirring, and in one of the clearest signs yet that China is awakening from its coronavirus coma, the country's "dancing aunties" are once again gathering in parks and squares.
Goldman Sachs has instructed most of its staff in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa to work from home from Wednesday until further notice, according to an internal notice seen by Reuters.
Germany's HDE retail association called on Wednesday for the government to give immediate state aid and tax relief to stop businesses going bust as stores closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus, losing 7 billion euros (US$7.70 billion) per week.
BlackRock Inc executives who set the asset manager's influential proxy votes on Tuesday outlined tougher priorities tied to climate change and executive pay for the upcoming corporate annual meeting season.
SINGAPORE: Local food importers heaved a sigh of relief as their supplies from Malaysia arrived as planned, uninterrupted by the country's movement control order which kicked in on Wednesday (Mar 18). However, that is not the case for those in other sectors. From construction to manufacturing ...
