Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc shares soared after the company named Target Corp’s head merchant Mark Tritton as its new chief executive officer. Analysts were broadly encouraged by the announcement given Tritton’s successful tenure at Target. Loop Capital’s Anthony Chukumba cited the new CEO’s “retail/consumer pedigree” and merchandising and private label development “experience and expertise.” Morgan Stanley’s Simeon Gutman …

Bloomberg Once you crack the profit code for delivering hot pizzas in the Arctic, where blocks of cheese arrive on nuclear icebreakers, expanding into more hospitable climes like Britain and Nigeria is as easy as pie. Or so says Fyodor Ovchinnikov, the freshly crowned franchise czar of Russia and soon, he’s betting, beyond. From a single basement oven in his …

CAIRO / WAM The United Arab Emirates has called upon Turkey and all other foreign forces to withdraw from Syria and to seek a political solution. The UAE also stated that the minimum action incumbent upon Arab countries is the adoption of a firm response to aggression against any Arab country, which is seen as aggression against the national security …