Daily Mail Business Articles

Humphrey Cobbold, chief exec of the UK’s largest gym operator, said he was ‘hugely disappointed’ gyms are not returning on July 4.
Pure Gym has British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith (pictured) as ambassador.

The budget airline plans to raise more cash by selling almost 60m new shares, the equivalent of just under 15 per cent of existing shares in the company. It said it hopes this would raise £400m to £450m.

Intu, whose sites include Manchester’s Trafford Centre (pictured) is on the edge of administration while Hammerson’s share price has fallen by more than two-thirds since the start of the year.

Wicks’s arrival completes chairman Sharon White’s top team of five women and three men. The John Lewis Partnership is one of the few major firms to have more women than men on its board.

The Hiscox Action Group, represented by law firm Mishcon de Reya, is demanding to join the action being taken in a case next month which is being brought by the City watchdog.

Bourses around the world slipped into the red as the World Health Organisation forecast worldwide cases could hit 10m within the next week. It came as cases surged in Latin America, India and the US.

The grim takes from the International Monetary Fund’s top economist Gita Gopinath continue to flow. The estimate is that vanishing working hours globally, are the equivalent of 300m full-time jobs.

Executive director James Bailey said UK consumers should not ‘close their eyes’ to the poor treatment of animals abroad as opposition mounts to US food imports from the big grocers.

The Washington-based watchdog warned just ten weeks ago that the pandemic would lead to the worst global economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Chief executive Jason Holt said over half of the 8,500 staff had to go to help the business survive the impact of the pandemic. He admitted ‘We have never seen anything like Covid-19 in our lifetimes’