Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is leading a $575 million investment in Deliveroo, buying a slice of the fast-growing startup to propel its drive into the European food and groceries business. The US online retail giant will be joined in the Series G funding round by existing backers T Rowe Price, Fidelity Management and Research Co and Greenoaks, Deliveroo said in an …

Bloomberg Air Canada said it’s in exclusive talks to buy one of the country’s largest travel tour operators, Transat AT, for about $387 million amid a wave of consolidation in the Canadian airline industry. The country’s largest airline said in a statement it was prepared to pay C$13 a share for the Montreal-based company, a 23 percent premium to Transat’s …

Bloomberg Walmart Inc’s Asda reported its eighth consecutive quarter of growth after the US retail giant said that it was “seriously” considering an initial public offering for the UK grocer in the future. Asda delivered 0.5 percent like-for-like sales growth excluding petrol for the first quarter of 2019. Figures were adjusted to account for the later Easter date compared to …