From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as "the world's salad bowl," outbreaks of the novel coronavirus are emerging at U.S. fruit and vegetable farms and packing plants.
AMSTERDAM/LONDON: Just Eat Takeaway's proposed US$6 billion takeover of Grubhub to create a trans-Atlantic giant that could thwart Uber's food delivery ambitions has raised concerns among some analysts about the pace of the European company's expansion. Buying Grubhub would see Jitse Groen ...
REUTERS: Unilever proposed combining its Dutch and British legal entities in a single holding company based in Britain on Thursday (Jun 11), after shareholders sank an earlier plan to move the global consumer goods group's headquarters to the Netherlands. The proposed unification, which would ...
British Airways will sell at least 10 works of art from its extensive collection, a source said, to try to raise millions of pounds to boost its cash reserves as it struggles through the coronavirus pandemic.
REUTERS: New York-based podcasting platform Pocket Casts said its app had been taken down from Apple Inc's app store in China. Reuters couldn't immediately verify why the app was no longer available in the store. Pockets Casts, ranked 85th most popular in the podcast news app section on Apple's...
British broadband company TalkTalk reported a 9.7per cent rise in full-year core earnings to 260 million pounds (US$329 million), driven by growth in its fibre customer base, and said it was in a robust financial position, allowing it to maintain its dividend.
SoftBank Group Corp's creditworthiness "remains under pressure" despite moving to shore up its balance sheet by raising up to US$41 billion via asset sales, credit-rating firm S&P Global Ratings said on Thursday.
Finnish telecoms network maker Nokia said on Thursday it has appointed Marco Wiren as chief financial officer following changes of its chairman and chief executive this year.
SINGAPORE: Singapore-based Grab's food delivery business has seen a 60 per cent increase in orders since October and November last year, fuelled in part by the COVID-19 outbreak, which has led to more people working from home and opting for food deliveries. But this increase has not been enough to ...
Britain's Heathrow Airport, which before the coronavirus pandemic was the busiest in Europe, said it had started a voluntary redundancy scheme after passenger numbers fell to an all-time low and it could not rule out further job losses.
