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...The capital return announcement coincided with a wave of planned strikes by delivery workers in North America and the UK on Wednesday, as couriers for services including Uber, Just Eat Takeaway, Deliveroo...
...Its latest effort to transport items ranging from medical supplies to pet food via two new services, Direct and Connect, follows a recently accelerated push into online groceries....
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...In US and European warehouses, the boom in online shopping during the pandemic has accelerated the switch to automated systems and robots, which can cope more quickly and efficiently with increasingly complex...
...The London-based company said last month that it was profitable on an operating basis for much of 2020 as the pandemic accelerated demand for food delivery....
...But it has been able to raise prices too, because air cargo capacity has shrunk Both couriers should be able to maintain the upper hand for a while....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...“More an I-shaped recovery than a V-shaped!”...
...In the years after the financial crisis of 2008, consolidation accelerated in certain sectors, creating national champions such as screen maker Japan Display....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Eats under scrutiny ahead of IPO Uber Eats’ revenue growth has accelerated in the past year, due largely to the rapid expansion into new markets....
...Assets at Carlyle shrank as the Washington-based company continued to deploy cash at an accelerated clip....
...The economic slowdown in China, the world’s biggest importer of commodities, and its devaluation of the renminbi in August have roiled markets and accelerated the sell-off in commodities and resources stocks...
...With strong words such as “indecision now leads to trouble later”, “no more stimulus for a v-shaped recovery” and “must bury ‘zombie’ companies”, it shows strong resolve to reform, without losing sight of...
...Instead, it pays courier companies to pick up items from stores, such as Target or Whole Foods, organise the items, and deliver them....
...He says conversations about business plans can become abstract and time-consuming, but “when you have a prototype the whole design process gets accelerated....
...The low-cost provider’s ETF business in Europe is also expanding rapidly where regulatory changes have accelerated the shift into ETFs....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...In 2005, John Jones, who oversees pharmacy operations at Geisinger Health System, the health service organisation, liked the idea of using robots known as TUGs and developed by Aethon to act as couriers,...
...Amazon has already drawn Walmart and eBay into a race to offer same-day courier delivery, a challenge to the instant gratification offered by bricks-and-mortar stores....
...The company also said it had entered into agreements to repurchase $1bn of its common shares under a variable maturity accelerated share repurchase programme....
...Mr Allason is wearing a v-neck T-shirt, jeans with a tear in the thigh and flip-flops. He looks like a college dropout – mainly because he is one....
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