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UK’s Royal Mail Workers to Strike in Run-Up to Christmas
Date: November 18, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -Postal workers at Britain’s Royal Mail will strike for six days in the run-up to the busy Christmas period in a dispute over pay and conditions, their union said on Thursday. The workers will strike on Dec. 23 and 24, in addition to Dec. 9, 11, 14 and 15, the Communication Workers Union...
InPost Sees Stronger 2022 but Warns of Slowing Demand
Date: November 9, 2022
(Reuters) – Poland’s InPost on Wednesday said its full-year expectations were higher than previously anticipated thanks to strong volumes, even as it warned of slowing demand toward the end of the year. The company, which operates a network of automated parcel machines (APMs) where customers collect their own packages, said it saw lower volumes in...
Just Eat Delivers Q3 Profit as Cost Cuts Outweigh Lower Order Volumes
Date: October 19, 2022
By Diana Mandia and Dagmarah Mackos (Reuters) -Just Eat Takeaway.com, Europe’s largest meal delivery company, said on Wednesday it made an underlying quarterly profit earlier than expected as efforts to cut delivery and operating expenses offset falling orders. The total value of orders, known as gross transaction value (GTV), a common measure for e-commerce companies,...
Winning the Loyalty of Customers With a Virtual Restaurant Brand
Date: October 4, 2022
Zhong Xu, CEO and co-founder, Deliverect Looking back some years ago, few in the hospitality industry would have been able to meaningfully define a virtual brand, particularly in the context of food service. Despite presence of the concept in the market as far back as 2014, restaurant virtual brands rose to prominence during the height...
IKEA’s Home Deliveries Will Be Fully Electric by 2025 – CEO
Date: October 3, 2022
By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) – IKEA’s home deliveries will be made by electric vehicles by 2025 as part of a target at the world’s No.1 furniture brand to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next eight years, CEO Jesper Brodin said on Monday. In an interview at the Reuters IMPACT conference, Brodin said...
Just Eat Takeaway Shares Leap 10% on Forecast of Underlying Profit
Date: September 27, 2022
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Just Eat Takeaway.com NV, Europe’s largest online food ordering and delivery company, said on Tuesday it expected to make an underlying profit in the second half of 2022, sooner than previously forecast. The company’s shares jumped by 10% to 15.74 euros in Amsterdam shortly after the announcement. Just Eat said in a statement...