Image copyright Ben Stevens / Parsons Media Pret a Manger is to offer customers up to five coffees a day if they sign up to a monthly subscription service. The chain is hoping that the price tag of £20 is low enough to win back some of the business lost in the pandemic. But city centres, saturated with coffee shops,… Read more →
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jordan Belfort was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013 film This may sound like the plot of a bad Hollywood movie: A criminal stockbroker shares life lessons with newcomers just entering the business. It’s actually real life. Jordan Belfort, the man whose rise and fall in the financial world inspired the “The Wolf… Read more →
Image copyright Getty Images Toilet roll was not the only thing to disappear from supermarket shelves at the start of lockdown. Buy-one-get-one-free deals were pulled too. There was a 15% fall in the frequency of promotions during the first month of lockdown, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found. This, in part, led to a 2.4% rise in… Read more →
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Italians are now allowed to travel inside the country again Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte offered a hopeful message as the country moved to its final stage in easing lockdown restrictions. “We deserve to smile, to be cheerful, after weeks of great sacrifice,” he said on Wednesday. He added that now was the time… Read more →
Image copyright Getty Images McLaren is considering raising money by mortgaging its historic car collection and factory to see it through the coronavirus crisis. The Formula One team owner and supercar maker has seen sales and F1 advertising revenues hit as countries globally went into lockdown. Cars on show at McLaren’s Surrey HQ include F1 winners from the 1980s and… Read more →