Deirdre Hipwell

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  • Helge LundInvesting

    Novo chairman to step down in board rift over pace of change

    By Deirdre Hipwell, Maddie Parker, and others
  • Customers are shopping at the first store of the US street brand Supreme in Shanghai, China, on April 1, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Retail

    Italian-French eyewear titan EssilorLuxottica snaps up Supreme for $1.5 billion

    By Deirdre Hipwell and Bloomberg
  • People shopping at PrimarkRetail

    Primark owner AB Foods expects ‘significant growth’ in profits for 2024 as inflation eases in recession-affected markets like the U.K.

    By Jennifer Creery, Deirdre Hipwell, and others
  • MADRID, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 02: A person using Ozempic on November 2, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. Novo Nordisk, the Danish firm that manufactures Ozempic, has reported record quarterly results, up almost 3% on the stock market. The company’s revenues rose by 38% to DKK 58.73 billion, some 7.8 billion euros. Ozempic is a diabetic drug that causes a loss of up to 15% of body weight because it acts as an appetite suppressant, a side effect that has made the drug fashionable on social media as a weight loss drug. (Photo By Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images)Health

    Regulators are looking into whether weight-loss drugs like Ozempic raise the risk of suicidal thoughts

    By Deirdre Hipwell and Bloomberg
  • SHANGHAI, CHINA – DECEMBER 5, 2020 – An Adidas store is seen in Shanghai, China, on Dec 5, 2020. August 10, 2022 — sportswear brand Adidas admitted that revenue in Greater China plunged 35% in the first quarter. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Retail

    Ye is only the tip of the iceberg of Adidas’s problems

    By Deirdre Hipwell, Tim Loh, and others
  • Pfizer COVID-19 vaccineHealth

    U.K. to offer Pfizer COVID vaccine to children ages 5 to 11

    By James Paton, Deirdre Hipwell, and others
  • A person walks passed a Debenhams store in Glasgow, as stricter lockdown measures have came into force for mainland Scotland. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)Retail

    Online fashion retailers are taking over some of the U.K.’s most iconic high street brands

    By Deirdre Hipwell and Bloomberg
  • A temporarily immobilized Lufthansa passenger aircraft stands in dense fog on the northwest runway of Frankfurt Airport near the tower. For the second time this year, the runway is being used as a parking lot due to the corona-related lull in the aviation industry.International

    Lufthansa will airlift food to the U.K. amid border closure and fears of food shortages due to new COVID strain

    By William Wilkes, Deirdre Hipwell, and others
  • A police car patrols along the stacks of Freight lorries and goods vehicles queuing on a closed section of the M20 motorway which leads to the Port of Dover, near Ashford in Kent, south east England at sunrise on December 22, 2020, after a string of countries banned travel including accompanied freight arriving from the UK, due to the rapid spread of a more-infectious new coronavirus strain. – Britain’s critical south coast port at Dover said on December 20 it was closing to all accompanied freight and passengers due to the French border restrictions “until further notice”. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)International

    After mutant virus fears cut off trucking routes to Europe, U.K. businesses look to cargo jets and freight trains

    By Christopher Jasper, Deirdre Hipwell, and others
  • Celebrities packed the boohoo x All That Glitters Launch Party last year in Los Angeles, California. Shares in Boohoo Group plunged on Monday as the high-flying online retailer said it would investigate its supply chain for unfair and/or unsafe labor practices.Retail

    Investors sink shares in online retailer Boohoo on reports of labor abuses in its supply chain

    By Thomas Mulier, Deirdre Hipwell, and others
  • Social distancing measures inside Harrods in Knightsbridge on June 28, 2020 in London, England. More retailers are reopening with social distancing measures after being shuttered for months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Retail

    Iconic department store Harrods opens its first outlet store—and lays off hundreds of staff

    By Deirdre Hipwell and Bloomberg
  • Amazon fulfilment centre - PeterboroughInternational

    In an Unusual Move, Amazon Debuts Its New ‘Counter’ Offering Outside the U.S.

    By Deirdre Hipwell and Bloomberg
  • BRITAIN-US-RETAIL-MERGER-SAINSBURY-WALMARTInternational

    A $9.4 Billion Bid to Buy Walmart’s U.K. Unit Is Officially Dead

    By Jonathan Browning, Ellen Milligan, and others