Bloomberg As Boeing Co’s 737 Max was about to enter service in 2017 it became the subject of an unusual diplomatic exchange. Chinese officials, eager to enter the global aircraft manufacturing market dominated by Boeing and Europe’s Airbus SE, raised the prospect with their US counterparts of clearing Boeing’s aircraft for use in China in exchange for favourable treatment of …

Bloomberg Consumer goods giant Unilever is considering a $1 billion offer for US skin-care brand Drunk Elephant, the Sunday Telegraph reported, without saying where it got the information. Drunk Elephant, founded in 2012 by Texan mother-of-four Tiffany Masterson and which makes skin-care products with natural, nontoxic ingredients, hired investment banks in January to explore a sale, according to the Wall …

Bloomberg Carrefour SA is weighing options including a sale of its Chinese business, mirroring other international consumer firms that have decided to exit the country in recent years, people familiar with the matter said. The French retail giant is working with an adviser and has begun reaching out to potential suitors, the people said, asking not to be identified because …