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Tesco takes aim at rival Sainsbury with price cuts

Bloomberg Tesco Plc racked up its 10th consecutive quarter of growth and cut prices in a pre-emptive strike against rivals preparing to challenge its role as the UK’s largest retailer. The supermarket operator has lowered prices on its own-brand meat, fruit and vegetables, countering reductions promised by J Sainsbury Plc as part of its planned acquisition of Walmart Inc.’s Asda ...

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American Air to cut management jobs as merger work winds down

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc. will cull its management ranks as it sets a course to complete five years of work merging with US Airways. “While not all integration work is complete, much of it is and as a result, now is the right time to look at the organisational structure we need for the future,” American Chief Executive Doug ...

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Kering hands $1.5bn Bottega Veneta to unknown designer

Bloomberg Kering tapped an unknown designer who worked at luxury rival LVMH’s Celine to revamp the Italian handbag-maker Bottega Veneta. The 32-year-old British designer Daniel Lee will take over as creative director of the French luxury company’s third-largest brand in July. He’s succeeding Tomas Maier, the German designer who built Bottega Veneta into a $1.5 billion business but one whose ...

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