The chief financial officers (CFOs) at Britain’s biggest companies are more worried than their European counterparts about how Brexit will affect their firms’ bottom lines, according to a new survey by Deloitte. 65% of British CFOs say Brexit negotiations will be “bad for business,” compared with just 37% of European ... Read More »
People and leprosy go way back. Way, way back. “It’s been around for at least 5,000 years and probably longer,” says Stewart Cole, who directs the Global Health Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The disease, which causes nerve damage and skin ulcers, likely originated in Africa — ... Read More »
Sept 16 – The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Times First-half profits have plunged by nearly 15 percent at the John Lewis Partnership Plc after it had to absorb ... Read More »
A steel industry plan to change its pension scheme and allow the sale of Tata’s British operations is likely to be scrapped in favour of a fix that avoids a political row, government and industry sources told Reuters. Tata in March put its British steel operations up for sale, saying ... Read More »
Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers experienced long lines and hours-long delays at airports around the world overnight after a computer failure affected check-in systems. Airline employees had to manually process passengers at airports including San Francisco, Seattle and Phoenix, delaying the departures of dozens of London-bound transatlantic flights. ... Read More »
British Airways has apologised to passengers facing delays after an IT glitch affected check-in desks. Passengers complained of delays at check-in and at the baggage drop, and on the tarmac waiting for take-off. The airline said passengers were able to check in at Heathrow and GatwickAirports “although it is taking ... Read More »
Amazon announced Monday a new partnership with the British government to begin the development of a drone delivery system of parcels, the company said in a statement. Support for the development of drone delivery has come from Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority, allowing the online retailer to experiment with drone usage ... Read More »
British home prices will plummet if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union this week, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross said Tuesday. The bulk of WL Ross & Co.’s business in the U.K. is in mortgage lending. Ross sees a home price collapse hitting older Britons particularly hard. Older ... Read More »
Harrow was one of the first major British public schools to expand abroad when it opened Harrow International Bangkok in 1998. Since then, it’s opened branches in Hong Kong and Beijing, with another due to open in Shanghai in August 2016. There’s a long list of famous old Harrovians, including Winston ... Read More »
