Recent Posts

Tesco CEO receives $5.7m amid food poverty crisis

  Bloomberg The chief executive officer of Tesco Plc received 4.7 million pounds ($ 5.7 million) last year after he helped steer Britain’s biggest grocer and private sector employer through the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of Ken Murphy’s bumper package was driven by performance-related bonuses for helping Tesco manage severe staff shortages, panic-buying and major supply chain blockages as Covid infections ...

Read More »

South Africa sets plans to cash in on revived national carrier

Bloomberg South Africa’s government has retained special voting rights in the country’s national carrier even after selling a majority stake, and will be given 3 billion rand ($186 million) in preference shares that can be redeemed through future cashflow. That means the state stands to benefit should new owner, the Takatso Consortium, revive a carrier that’s struggled under years of ...

Read More »

Qantas banking on fliers to pay $12,000 for 24-hour flights

Bloomberg Wanted: Hundreds of people to sit in a plane for 20 hours. Must be willing to pay lots of money. Claustrophobes needn’t apply. Conceived prior to the Covid crisis, Qantas Airways Ltd’s plan to operate the world’s longest nonstop commercial flights from southeast Australia to New York and London is being resurrected in a much-changed aviation landscape, with global ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend