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Amazon seeks to lure ‘grocery customers’ on its Prime Day

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. proved it can use bargain buzz to sell a lot of gadgets on a random day in July. This year, it’s hoping excitement around Prime Day gets shoppers to change how they buy groceries. Amazon’s fourth annual Prime Day — 36 hours of sales beginning July 16 — will be its first since closing the $13.7 billion ...

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Chinese tycoon to buy Irish plane lessor for $2.8bn

Bloomberg Hong Kong billionaire Henry Cheng’s jewellery-to-property business empire will acquire Dublin-based Sky Leasing for about $2.8 billion, including debt, to bolster the group’s aviation business. Though the Cheng family’s Goshawk Aviation Ltd. announced the deal last month, it didn’t disclose the value at the time. Of the total, 70 percent of the purchase will be funded with debt and ...

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Airbus to EU: Go easy on PM May over Brexit

Bloomberg Airbus SE Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders called on the European Union to acknowledge the British government’s new, softer negotiating stance toward Brexit, lending a measure of support to embattled Prime Minister Theresa May. “The Chequers statement appears to show that HM Government are going in the right direction,” Enders said at a German Chamber of Commerce event in ...

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