Sainsbury’s stops selling fireworks following fears for pets Sainsbury's stops selling fireworks Sainsbury’s has become the UK’s first big supermarket to stop selling fireworks across all its stores. The move followed a review of all of the supermarket’s products, Sainsbury’s said. Read more: Leon opts to launch new product range in major UK supermarket It also comes after a petition to ban the public sale of fireworks, [...]
Nestle to return billions to investors through share buyback programme Nestle said today it plans to return Swiss Fr 20bn (£15.7bn) to investors by 2022. The company’s new share buyback programme, which will start in January, follows the $10bn (£7.8bn) sale of its skin care division this month to a consortium of investors. The Kitkat-maker said its organic growth slowed slightly from 3.9 per cent [...]
Ladbrokes: 2020 general election is now odds-on The chances of a general election in 2020 are now higher than one in the rest of this year, according to the latest betting odds from Ladbrokes. As Brexit talks go to the wire, the bookmaker said it was now the favourite that an election would not take place this side of Christmas, with odds [...]
Trio wins economics Nobel Prize for work on poverty October 14, 2019 Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer have taken home the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their experimental work on the fight to alleviate global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today. Read more: Nobel Prize for literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Duflo, who is from France, became the [...]
