COVID-19

French Shopping Centres To Require COVID-19 Health Pass

Shopping malls in Paris and large parts of France had to ask customers to show a health pass on Monday, as the government increased pressure on people to g...

Sporty Summer Lifts Post-Lockdown UK Consumer Spending

Sporting events and the summer holidays prompted a big increase in British consumer spending in July, aided by the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, survey...

Retail Coffee Prices To Climb As Frost And Freight Costs Bite

The most devastating frost in decades in top coffee producer Brazil and record freight costs sparked by COVID-19 causing massive shipping logjams are expec...

Kraft Heinz Flags Margin Pressure From Inflation, Shares Fall

Kraft Heinz Co on Wednesday warned of margin pressure from higher prices of ingredients, sending its shares down 4%, even as the packaged food maker foreca...

Britain's Greggs Back In Profit After Sales Recovery

British bakery and fast food chain Greggs returned to a first half profit after a strong recovery in sales in the wake of the easing of COVID-19 restrictio...

UK To Launch Daily COVID Tests In Food Sector To Tackle 'Pingdemic'

Daily contact testing will be rolled out to workplaces in Britain's food sector so staff who have been 'pinged' by the COVID-19 app can keep working if the...

Rémy Cointreau Doubles Quarterly Sales As Bars Reopen

Rémy Cointreau's organic sales more than doubled in the first quarter, the French spirits group said on Tuesday, beating estimates as bars and resta...

Many Parents Are Already Planning Their Back-To-School Shop

The start of the new school term last September was shrouded in uncertainty following the lengthy lockdown at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. However, t...