Bloomberg Sales for Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max slipped in October after a prominent customer converted some of its orders for the narrow-body jet to twin-aisle 787 Dreamliners. Boeing’s unfilled 737 order backlog, adjusted for accounting considerations, shrank by 19 aircraft during the month to 4,387 jets, the Chicago-based planemaker revealed on its website. The planemaker garnered negative 93 orders ...
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Ferragamo: HK protests slashed local retail sales
Bloomberg Salvatore Ferragamo SpA’s sales in Hong Kong fell 45% during the third quarter as months of anti-Beijing protests held back spending by tourists and locals alike. The decline at the Italian maker of leather pumps and silk scarves exceeded the impact estimated by some rival luxury companies. LVMH, the owner of Louis Vuitton and Givenchy, previously said sales in ...
Read More »Magazine Luiza share offering to raise $1.13b
Bloomberg Magazine Luiza SA, the Brazilian retailer that is fast becoming one of the country’s leading e-commerce providers, sold shares at 43 reais each, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The company’s offering raised a total of 4.7 billion reais ($1.13 billion), including a primary sale of 100 million shares, according to one of the people, who ...
Read More »JetBlue fights discounters with no-frill option in fare overhaul
Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp, bowing to rising competitive pressures, began offering a no-frills option in the first revamp of its fare categories since they were introduced in 2015. Customers buying a reduced Blue Basic fare won’t get a refund if they have to cancel, can’t make changes to the reservation and will have to board last — standards that match ...
Read More »Cathay issues second profit warning in less than one month
Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd issued its second profit warning in less than a month as Hong Kong’s flag carrier continues to struggle from a slumping number of visitors because of the protests that have gripped the city for months. Second-half financial results will be “significantly†lower than in the first, Cathay said in a statement on Wednesday. The language ...
Read More »Takeaway CEO not willing to overpay in Just Eat bid
Bloomberg Takeaway.com CEO Jitse Groen said it doesn’t make sense to overpay in its bid to gain control of UK rival Just Eat Plc. “I don’t want to be the idiot that runs into a ratio that doesn’t make any sense,†Groen said at the sidelines of the Morgan Stanley European Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Barcelona. Takeaway published ...
Read More »Cooperation with Opec not on cards: US official
ABU DHABI / WAM Collaboration between the United States and the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), is “not on the cards,” according to Francis R. Fannon, US Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources at the US Department of State. In an interview with Emirates News Agency (WAM), Fannon said the “US presence on the energy market ...
Read More »Aldar Properties Q3 profit rises 14% to AED662mn
ABU DHABI / WAM Aldar Properties on Tuesday reported a 14 percent year-on-year increase in gross profit to AED662 million in the third quarter of 2019. Also, the company’s revenue increased seven percent to AED1.60 billion compared to AED1.50 billion in Q3 2018. Development management recorded 20 percent growth in revenue to AED642 million, off-plan development sales increased 272 percent ...
Read More »Spending by Muslims on lifestyle, food to reach $3.2 trillion by 2024
DUBAI / WAM Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre announced results of the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report. The seventh edition of the report presents an annual update on continued global growth of the Islamic economy, encompassing halal products, Islamic finance and related lifestyle sectors. This year’s SGIE report, produced by DinarStandard, a US-based research and advisory firm, estimates ...
Read More »US’s SunPower quits manufacturing
Bloomberg SunPower Corp, one of America’s largest solar-panel makers, is giving up its manufacturing business to focus on installing rooftop solar systems. The company is spinning off its panel production operations into a new company, Maxeon Solar, that will be based in Singapore with factories in France, Malaysia, Mexico and the Philippines, according to a statement. As part of the ...
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