Bloomberg After seven months as Woolworths Holdings Ltd Chief Executive Officer, Roy Bagattini can finally make plans to visit the whole organisation. The former Levi Strauss & Co Americas boss returned to South Africa to take over the Cape Town-based retailer in mid-February and only had about a month in the office before the country entered a strict lockdown to ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc said it’s targeting zero emissions from its global operations by 2040, a small fraction of its total, in the latest climate-focussed step amid heightened calls from investors and activists to reduce carbon footprints. The world’s biggest retailer also plans to secure enough wind, solar and other renewable energy sources to power its facilities with 100% green power ...

Bloomberg China is ratcheting up the risk of military confrontation in the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing seeks to deter Taipei from continuing to deepen ties with the US and other like-minded democracies. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft repeatedly breached the median line between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland last week, in the latest of a series of military exercises in ...