COVID-19

Drinks Group Pernod Sees 20% Hit To Operating Profit Due To Coronavirus

French spirits group Pernod Ricard warned on Tuesday of a hit of around 20% to its current operating profit as a result of the slump in business caused by...

Stretched British Supermarkets Step Up Hiring To Weather Coronavirus Epidemic

With food flying off the shelves as fast as exhausted shop assistants can replenish them, British supermarkets have stepped up their hiring to se...

Penneys Owner Issues Trading Update Due To Covid-19 Closures

Associated British Foods plc has issued an update on trading in its Primark & Penneys stores, further to the update issued on 16 March 2020, as a '...

Musgrave To Hire Hundreds Of New Staff Across Supply Chain And Store Network

Musgrave has announced that it will hire hundreds of new staff on a temporary basis in response to increased demand it is seeing across the company’s...

Bulmers Owner Issues Financial Forecast Warning In COVID-19 Update

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic C&C has announced that since its full year 2020 trading update was issued earlier this month, market conditions h...

Irish Consumer Sentiment Weakens Significantly In Early March

Irish consumer sentiment weakened significantly in early March as nervousness about the impact of the Coronavirus on health as well as on economic and fina...

Greencore Says Trading Broadly In Line With Original Expectations

Greencore Group has said that trading for the first five months of the year has been 'broadly in line with expectations', as the business steps up its...

BAT Says No Material Impact Yet From COVID-19 Outbreak

British American Tobacco, the world's No.2 tobacco maker, said on Wednesday it has not yet seen a material impact from the COVID-19 outbreak, even as certa...