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...Uber calculates adjusted ebitda by excluding a laundry list of items from reported net income....
...A good example is Johnsons Service Group, a provider of hotel laundry services and workwear, which, awash with debt, faced a near-death experience in the 2008-09 financial crisis....
...Additional reporting by Rurika Imahashi in Tokyo A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 10 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...The idea was that companies could flood the market with on-demand services like laundry, food delivery, rides and repairs....
...New expenditures include virus tests, laundry services, protective gear, meals and sleeping mats....
...These chains tend to have larger rooms with decent kitchens and self-service laundry. They have benefited from demand for temporary housing for essential workers and staycationers....
...marketing service, to pose as the US international development agency....
...In these panicky pandemic times, “Dash Smart Shelf can give families peace of mind that they’ll never run out of household essentials like toilet paper, paper towels, laundry and dishwashing detergent, or...
...Adding to that laundry list, a July internal review by the bank into its involvement in creating supply chain finance investment funds with SoftBank-backed Greensill resulted in the Japanese conglomerate...
...Dollar Shave Club, a subscription razor service founded in 2011 and acquired by Unilever five years later for $1bn, was one example....
...Deals Mr Noblet advised on while working at HSBC include Cineworld’s $3.6bn takeover of Regal Entertainment and UK laundry group Berendsen’s £2.2bn sale to its French rival Elis....
...This week, streaming service Netflix announced that it had been testing new “player controls” that allow customers to vary the speed at which they watch its content on Android smartphones....
...SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son was once regarded as an outsider by Japan Inc....
...said the aborted Unilever offer suggested that Kraft Heinz believed another US food company would not solve the problem of low sales growth: the majority of Unilever’s sales are in soap, deodorants and laundry...
...Entrepreneur Angus Grahame came up with the idea for Splosh, which delivers concentrated household cleaners, laundry soap and body wash by mail....
...Her employer not only offers daily meals, accommodation, cleaning and laundry services, but also provides seven free round-trips to Taiwan a year and 55 days of paid leave....
...Amazon too has taken aim at busy women who control their family purchases, targetting them with discounts and deals through their Prime service and serving up child-friendly video content....
...“Just like wifi, laundry, parking, we see this as a standard amenity for the future, one that all tenants will want,” said Sean Conway, chief executive of Pillow....
...The most useful lesson comes when you realise that it’s not about yourself, but putting yourself to the service of others....
...The laundry list of concerns accompanied quarterly revenue growth of 30 per cent year-on-year to just less than $3bn, in line with estimates....
...Chief executive Paul Polman has spent €9bn on 19 bolt-on acquisitions since 2015 including Dollar Shave Club, the subscription-based razor company, Seventh Generation, an eco-friendly laundry group, and...
...The company is also testing next-day home delivery of everyday household staples — from laundry detergent to paper towels — in an attempt to rival Amazon’s Pantry and Walmart’s Jet.com dominance in this...
...FastFT reports specialist fashion retailer N Brown relied on its financial services business to maintain its profits in the the final quarter of 2017, as higher advertising costs drove down margins on its...
...Unite Here’s website says it represents 270,000 people working in hotels, airports, transportation and laundry services in the US and Canada....
...San Francisco-based laundry service Wash.io raised $13m from investors and then shut last autumn. Happy Home, a handyman service company, raised $7m from investors before closing down last year....
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