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Amazon business sales hit $10 billion annualised rate

Bloomberg Amazon.com said sales from its business-to-business platform hit an annualised rate of $10 billion globally as it adapted its online retail operations for consumers into an international enterprise serving offices, hospitals and factories. The Seattle-based internet giant launched Amazon Business in the US in 2015 and reached $1 billion in sales a year later. It now operates in eight ...

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Ryanair faces German strike despite making labour advances

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc pilots and flight attendants in Germany will walk out on Wednesday, meaning many of its services in and out of the country may not operate. The latest strike will follow the scrapping by Europe’s biggest discount carrier of more than 400 flights on August 10 amid walkouts in five nations including Germany, though since then it ...

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Salomon Ski owner gets $5.5bn Chinese bid ahead of games

Bloomberg China’s Anta Sports Products Ltd. is gearing up for the Beijing Winter Olympics four years from now with a 4.7 billion-euro ($5.5 billion) approach for one of the world’s biggest makers of ski equipment. Amer Sports Oyj of Finland, which owns the Atomic and Salomon brands, confirmed a Bloomberg News report that it has received takeover interest from an ...

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