Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc tapped Doug Herrington to run the company’s sprawling retail and logistics operation, giving him the new title chief executive officer of Worldwide Stores and signalling the importance of a continued push into groceries under company CEO Andy Jassy. Herrington, 55, joined Amazon in 2005 and launched the Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service in 2007. He replaces ...

  WEST VIRGINIA / WAM A helicopter used for tourism flights crashed onto a highway in West Virginia state, killing six people on board, Reuters cited local media as saying. The helicopter, which was based at an airport in the state’s Logan County, crashed on State Route 17 and was on fire when rescue crews arrived, the WSAZ-TV reported, citing ...

Bloomberg British sporting goods billionaire Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group Plc raised its stake in fashion retailer Hugo Boss AG, ramping up its exposure to the German retailer as it works on a rejuvenation effort. Frasers valued the new holding at about 900 million euros ($944 million) in a statement, two years after first investing about 108 million euros in the ...