Hints and tips:
...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...The latest strike by postal workers means Tesla cars will not have their licence plates delivered to customers....
...“They’ve been burning cash throughout the last year or so,” said Oliver Vande Stouwe, an analyst at S&P....
...Soon, sectors from cleaners and dockworkers to postal workers and metal-bashers had started sympathy action, stopping the company from unloading cars from boats or even receiving vehicle registration plates...
...Four days of industrial action this week will leave just 20 per cent of services running....
...But it will reduce services “to an absolute minimum” and ask hospitals to rely on members of other unions and clinical professions to plug gaps....
...They were service providers for gambling operators, which again leads us to the question, well, if they're only providing services, whose money are they actually using?...
...According to the Pitney Bowes shipping index, UPS delivered one in four of the 58mn parcels shipped in the US each day last year, more than FedEx or Amazon and second only to the US Postal Service....
...Nurses, ambulance workers, customs and immigration staff, postal and rail workers will all walk out in the coming days....
...He has rapidly increased his stake in Royal Mail as the 506-year-old postal service comes under strain from worker disputes and competition from more modern delivery businesses....
...insurer owned by Brookfield Asset Management announced a $4.3bn takeover offer for AEL that if completed would take private one of the last remaining independent fixed-indexed annuities providers in the United...
...Instead, he has blamed the fallen payments group’s fugitive second-in-command Jan Marsalek and former Dubai-based manager Oliver Bellenhaus for creating a “shadow structure”, hijacking payments processing...
...“Our industry should take these findings very seriously,” said Oliver Bilal, head of Emea distribution at Invesco....
...As ever, reach out to us with your thoughts (imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com). Thanks, and happy reading....
...The US Postal Service said it expected to handle between 850m and 950m packages this holiday season....
...The UK group, which provides clinical, commercial, communication and packaging services for the healthcare industry, will set a new schedule for shareholder approval if an increased bid is tendered....
...Unions in France have pushed the state-owned postal service to put workers’ safety first, calling for closures despite their status as an essential service....
...Issuing is mostly operated out of Germany, Dubai and the United States while payment acceptance services are mostly operated out of Germany, Ireland and Dubai....
...Job moves The private equity firm Thoma Bravo has hired Oliver Thym as a partner to lead its credit platform. He was previously a partner and head of the private credit group at Goldman Sachs....
...An announcement in February that Stamps.com would end its exclusive shipping partnership with the US Postal Service caused the shares to plummet 58 per cent in one day....
...The Trump administration did relax the minimum-service rules this week, saying it would allow some airlines to drop routes as long as they were served by another carrier....
...“We’re going to start simple and then expand rapidly,” says chief executive Oliver Cameron....
...He had started out catering to a Spanish admiral in Barcelona as part of his military service....
...When many firms can offer top-flight legal services, technology can be “a differentiator from a market point of view”, adds Mr Kruse....
...He is the second of three children 1942 Buys his first stock, age 11: three shares of Cities Service preferred 1949 Reads Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor — and later takes his class at Columbia...
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