Retail

  Dubai / Emirates Business As Deliveroo, the growing on-demand food delivery company, celebrates four years in business, it reveals new figures that demonstrate how the platform is helping restaurants in the UAE win new customers and generate more revenue. With more than 800 restaurant partners in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, restaurant owners have reported a sustained growth in meal …

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is teaming up with Shanghai Bailian Group Co., one of China’s largest supermarket and department store chains, as Jack Ma accelerates an effort to employ technology to shake up old-fashioned retail. Alibaba’s planning to help upgrade some of Bailian’s 4,700 stores across the country, integrating everything from customer relations to payment and logistics in …

  Bloomberg As politicians and businesses wrestle with potential changes to UK border controls, one of the world’s largest online travel booking companies has decided to double its headcount in London, and it’s not alone in looking to expand. Expedia will expand its UK office by 138,000 square feet, or to roughly twice the size of its existing space, and …

  Bloomberg Steinhoff International Holdings NV and Shoprite Holdings Ltd. ended talks to create Africa’s biggest retailer after negotiations with shareholders including billionaire Christo Wiese broke down over terms. Wiese, who is the biggest investor in both companies, South Africa’s Public Investment Corp. and Steinhoff were unable to reach agreement on the share-exchange ratio that would have been applied to …

  AP Production workers at Boeing’s South Carolina plant have rejected an effort to unionize, maintaining Southern reluctance toward unionization and setting up a picture-perfect stop for President Donald Trump, who visits the facilities this week. Vote totals weren’t immediately available, but the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ lead organizer said it’s “the workers who dictate what happens …

  Emirates Business In collaboration with Marka PJSC, the first public joint stock retail operator in the UAE, contemporary French jewellery brand dinh van marked its 1st anniversary in Dubai by celebrating with guests, VIPs, media and the Marka team at its branch in CITY WALK. The anniversary follows the recent opening of dinh van’s second outlet, in Galeries Lafayette …

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. shares hit a record on optimism the next iPhone will drive a resurgence in sales and help the company’s services businesses grow. The stock climbed less than 1 percent to $133.29 at the close in New York, the highest on record. The increase valued Apple at about $699 billion, making it the world’s most highly capitalized …

  Emirates Business ZOOM, ENOC’s convenience store brand, was recently declared winner in the best international design category at the 11th Annual Store Design Contest organised by Convenience Store News, the industry leading magazine in the United States for its 1,250 square feet store in the iconic Burj Khalifa. The store, designed in-house at ENOC exclusively for the world’s most …

  Bloomberg Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest US wireless provider, will start selling a package that includes unlimited data, a tacit acknowledgment that smaller competitors have struck a chord with consumers who want to stream video without worrying about exceeding a cap. Verizon will charge $80 a month for a single user, $10 higher than the plan offered by T-Mobile …

  Emirates Business Blueair, the world’s leading indoor air purifying company, on Monday opened an office in fast growing Dubai that will serve as the hub for growing Blueair sales throughout the United Arab Emirates and Gulf region. The Blueair office will be responsible for developing sales throughout the Gulf Cooperation Group (GCC) of countries encompassing Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, …