Bloomberg First released in 1959, the iconic Barbie doll has seen Mattel Inc through the civil rights movement, the Cold War and the rise of the internet. And now it’s helping the company weather a global pandemic. While Mattel’s overall sales fell 15% in the second quarter from a year earlier — the result of closed retail stores, supply-chain troubles …

Bloomberg Creditors of South African Airways (SAA) gave the government more time to find the money to fund a rescue of the bankrupt state-owned airline. At a meeting convened by the airline’s administrators, creditors voted to extend the deadline to July 27 from an initial deadline of July 22. If the money is not guaranteed by then, another creditors meeting …

Bloomberg Neiman Marcus Group Inc, the luxury retailer that’s making its way through bankruptcy proceedings, said it will permanently close its store in New York City’s Hudson Yards along with three other US locations. Its planned exit from Hudson Yards comes just over a year after the mall at the mega-project opened to much fanfare in March 2019. The three-story …