We hear a lot about the impact of Mother’s day but less about Father’s Day, perhaps understandable given that the latter is a smaller spend event. But two releases this week show that it remains key for early summer gifting. Photo: Pexels And UK and global e-commerce order volumes increased in the lead-up to Father’s…
Donald Trump’s attacks on DEI are causing huge headaches for bosses Source link
Anna Whittaker BBC political reporter, Black Country Charlotte Benton BBC News, West Midlands Sonia Kumar Sonia Kumar will chair the Backbench Business debate about incontinence on Thursday A Labour MP has said she is proud to be leading a debate about incontinence that is the first of its kind in the House of Commons. Sonia…
The world’s most successful maker of gaming hardware has not released a new console for nearly eight years. Yet the fanfare around the Nintendo Switch 2, expected to launch in the next few months, has been relatively quiet. Last month Nintendo released a brief video introducing the machine, which looks much like its predecessor. Under…
Inter Miami CF head coach Javier Mascherano said Jordi Alba and Lionel Messi will both be available for selection tomorrow in the team’s second Club World Cup group stage match against FC Porto at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Alba returns to the squad almost three weeks after suffering a hamstring injury on May 28 in…
Retail giant Frasers Group said on Thursday that it won’t be bidding for Revolution Beauty after having confirmed earlier this month that it was looking at a cash offer for the up-for-sale business. Revolution Beauty Yet there were caveats and as is often the case with Frasers’ acquisition activity, this may not be the end…
If investment in data centres is about to slow, nobody told Mark Zuckerberg. On January 29th, during an earnings call, Meta’s boss boasted that the social-media giant had plans to build an artificial-intelligence (AI) data centre “so big that it’ll cover a significant part of Manhattan if it were placed there”. Source link
Israel attacks Iranian nuclear sites, missile damages Israeli hospital Source link
DONALD TRUMP likes oil—and oilmen. He gushes about “liquid gold” with as much ferocity as Spindletop, an oil well that spat out perhaps 1m barrels over nine days in 1901 and turned nearby Houston into a boomtown. In his first administration he named Rex Tillerson, former chief executive of ExxonMobil, America’s mightiest hydrocarbon firm, as…
There’s fast fashion and slow fashion. And then there’s really slow fashion, which is where Barnfield Customs comes in. The British menswear brand makes high-end outerwear and knitwear “for those who value patience, provenance and purpose”. Barnfield Customs Each year, the Nottingham-based firm launches a selection of “unique and limited edition” jackets. And with a…
