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A customer, center, tastes a sample of wine in the wine and spirits section of the newly refurbished Marks & Spencer Group Plc Food shop in London, U.K,
Finance

Food prices cool in the U.K. as inflation slips 3.4% in February, way below expectations

By Tom Rees and Bloomberg
March 20, 2024
tubs of ben & jerry's ice cream
Finance

Ben & Jerry’s maker Unilever is spinning off its ice cream unit and slashing up to 7,500 jobs amid activist investor pressure to streamline its business

By
March 19, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California
Tech

Meta’s former London landlord set for $430 million payday after tech giant’s 9-figure ‘surrender fee’

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March 19, 2024
Low-cost airline EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren.
Retail

EasyJet is confident it’ll grow ‘more than any other European airline this summer,’ CEO Johan Lundgren said

By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
March 19, 2024
a man standing by a door
Finance

British banks scramble after a Big Lebowski-inspired ‘Dudeist priest’ in Northern Ireland filed hundreds of false documents

By
March 19, 2024
An AI platform set up by a college student has pulled down deepfake versions of Drake and Amy Winehouse after facing a landmark legal challenge from the U.K. music industry
Tech

An AI platform set up by a college student has pulled down deepfake versions of Drake and Amy Winehouse after facing a landmark legal challenge from the U.K. music industry

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March 18, 2024
Deliveroo is spending an estimated $230,000 to give a handful of riders 15 hours of childcare—after years of lobbying to avoid paying sick leave, PTO, and pensions
Tech

Deliveroo is spending an estimated $230,000 to give a handful of riders 15 hours of childcare—after years of lobbying to avoid paying sick leave, PTO, and pensions

By
March 18, 2024
michael o'leary standing with arms folded and one arm up by his forehead
Success

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary says negative press is his budget airline’s marketing secret: ‘Bad publicity sells far more seats than the good’

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March 18, 2024
People enjoy drinking Guinness outside a pub in Dublin city center.
Retail

Guinness has entered a ‘golden age’ with authenticity-craving millennials—and owner Diageo probably has social media to thank

By
March 16, 2024
a woman speaking
Retail

The end for the partnership model? John Lewis goes back into profit, but workers won’t be getting a cut again this year

By
March 14, 2024
Deliveroo CEO isn’t worried about EU law that recognizes 5.5 million gig workers as employees—because lobbying in the U.K. and France means 90% of its market isn’t affected
Tech

Deliveroo CEO isn’t worried about EU law that recognizes 5.5 million gig workers as employees—because lobbying in the U.K. and France means 90% of its market isn’t affected

By
March 14, 2024
Wael Sawan, chief executive officer of Shell Plc.
Environment

Shell waters down its 2030 carbon reduction target, but still aims to reach net zero by 2050

By Laura Hurst and Bloomberg
March 14, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left and UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have a drink and biscuits.
Finance

U.K. rebounds with 0.2% GDP growth in January, now on track to exit recession

By Andrew Atkinson, Philip Aldrick and Bloomberg
March 13, 2024
Several rows of vinyl records in a store and a person looking through them
Retail

Vinyl records are making their comeback as one of Britain’s inflation metrics for the first time in 30 years—and of course, you can thank Taylor Swift

By
March 12, 2024
Anheuser-Busch InBev Bud Lite beer cans at a store in New York City
Retail

Multibillion-dollar Bud Light maker and Coca-Cola bottler publicly shamed for waiting months to pay U.K. suppliers

By
March 12, 2024

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