Britain’s biggest retailers have written to finance minister Rachel Reeves to say that further tax increases in her upcoming budget could undermine the government’s manifesto pledge to improve living standards. Read More
Miniso’s revenue for the first half of the year totalled 9,393 million yuan (1,126 million euros), marking a 21.1 % increase. Revenue generated in China increased by 11.4 %, while international revenue rose by 21.5 %. Read More
Long-established UK-based Mamas & Papas is gearing up for the Golden Quarter with “significant” investment to grow the business and with a new leadership team set to deliver the strategy as its CEO steps down. Read More
Adidas executives visited a small Indigenous town in the mountains of southern Mexico on Thursday to offer an apology over a sandal-inspired shoe design that Mexico’s government had blasted as cultural appropriation. Read More
Discount-retailer Ross Stores Inc. jumped after projecting inflation will push more consumers to seek its off-price wares and deliver sales growth above expectations. Read More
Birth rates falling to historic lows across the developed world, combined with people living longer, are reshaping the global market for the things we eat, wear and put on our skin. Read More
NEW YORK — The former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams ran audacious bribery schemes out of City Hall — selling off her help as a public official four different times to people willing to shower her with money or gifts, according to a series of indictments unsealed Thursday. Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the…
Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison is jumping on the Substack trend, but he seems to have overlooked the fine print. Harrison appears to have run afoul of Substack’s terms of service by mass-subscribing his former campaign email list and other personal contacts. Substack’s rules say: “Don’t add people to your mailing list without their consent,…
Donald Trump has strong-arming Congress down to a science. Now his redistricting gambit is putting his methods through a stress test. It’s a strategy of intensifying levels of private coercion and public threats of consequence, driven by Trump and amplified by aides and allies behind closed doors and through the online MAGA echo chamber: White…
Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett said he will not run for reelection in his home district if the Texas redistricting proposal is approved, avoiding a potential member-on-member primary with Rep. Greg Casar, who was drawn into Doggett’s district in the new maps. Doggett did not say whether he would retire from Congress if the maps…
