By Pierre Bertrand and Mauro Orru Atos accepted a financial-restructuring proposal from a consortium including key shareholder Onepoint to salvage the debt-laden French IT firm, outgunning a rival bid from a group led by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. Atos’s rescue comes after several tumultuous years for a company with contracts …
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10 photos Photo: Bennett Built Motorsport Think the Grumman LLV mail trucks the USPS have been driving for 40 years are tin can boxes on wheels? Well, you ain’t seen nothing til you’ve seen what the UK’s favorite mail carrier had to deliver packages with. That’s right, the world of …
Read More »Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mail-sorting group Whistl has warned Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský that he should prepare to shell out up to £600mn in damages following his takeover of Royal Mail, as it doubles …
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A village bid a loving farewell to their much-loved post lady, who has retired after 38 years of service. Mary Dainton, or ‘Mary the Post’ as she is lovingly known, has been delivering mail in the village of East Markham for almost four decades. She started working for Royal Mail …
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Brave Bison’s most recent deal valued each Mission Group share at 35.1p The firm said Mission rebuffed its efforts to have a ‘constructive dialogue’ By Harry Wise Updated: 09:56, 10 June 2024 Marketing firm Brave Bison has ended its pursuit of rival Mission Group following the rejection of its latest …
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The DUP’s Gregory Campbell is being realistic as to just how many doors he and his team will get to in East Londonderry. Taking to Facebook, Mr Campbell wrote: “Royal Mail claims there are 59,000 households in East Londonderry (has to be an investigation into that afterwards!). “We definitely won’t …
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Popular online fashion brand PrettyLittleThing has scrapped its free returns policy, leaving shoppers “devastated.” The brand joins others like Zara, Wayfair, Oh Polly and H&M who now charge for returns. According to retail payment experts at Dojo, this move could be an attempt by the brand to mitigate the phenomenon …
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Leading Vodafone’s supply chain organisation, Ninian Wilson oversees all technology procurement and indirect spending across 26 operating companies and serves as a board member. With a career of over 30 years, Wilson has seen procurement evolve from a back-office role to a business driver. Starting at British Gas, his first …
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The general election campaign is in full swing and with the bog day less than a month away voters in the UK will be expected to cast their vote. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed the date for the next general election. Standing outside 10 Downing Street in the pouring …
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By David Hartwig Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates the United Kingdom’s most popular dog breeds in a set of 10 stamps issued June 6. Presented in two horizontal se-tenant (side-by-side) strips of five, the stamps show 10 different breeds of dogs. The stamps in one of the strips of five …
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