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Delivery Hero Invests €200m In Berlin-Based Gorillas

Delivery Hero has announced that it has invested €200 million in the Berlin-based on-demand delivery startup Gorillas Technologies. The investment...

US FDA Gives Marketing Nod To An E-Cigarette For The First Time

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed British American Tobacco Plc (BAT) to market its Vuse Solo e-cigarettes and tobacco-flavoured pods, m...

UK Shoppers Turn More Cautious On Spending Amid Fuel Crisis

British shoppers increased their spending in September at the slowest pace since January, when the country was stuck in a coronavirus lockdown, as they wor...

Corn, Soybeans Fall As US Harvest Progresses; Wheat Eases

Chicago corn and soybean futures lost more ground on Monday as a rapidly advancing US harvest season and a slowdown in exports put pressure on the commodit...

Amazon To Fully Fund College Tuition For Frontline Employees

Amazon.com Inc will fully fund college tuition for over 750,000 of its frontline employees in a bid to step up efforts to attract and retain workers in a t...

Walgreens To Raise Minimum Hourly Wage From October

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc said it would raise the minimum wage of all its staff to $15 an hour from October, as the drugstore chain joins several US fir...

Soybeans Edge Lower, Set For Weekly Gains Of More Than 2%

U.S. soybean futures fell on Friday as rains across a key U.S. growing region tempered fears about global supplies, though the grain was poised to record w...

Pet Food Shortages Leave Owners Struggling

Black short-haired kitty Astra, one of millions of pets acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, had to go without salmon-flavoured Whiskas treats...