Bloomberg Walmart Inc has hired a veteran of American Express Co to run Walmart+, the membership program it unveiled less than a year ago to counter Amazon.com Inc’s Prime plan. Chris Cracchiolo, a senior executive who spent 19 years at the credit-card company, will take over as senior vice president and general manager of Walmart+ on July 12, Chief Customer ...

Bloomberg Ocado Group Plc added Spanish grocery chain Alcampo as a new client for its robotic warehouse business, which is gaining traction abroad as grocery e-commerce booms. The new contract will add to profit in coming fiscal years as these deals require an upfront investment, Ocado said. The company also maintained its full-year earnings forecast as strong sales in its ...

Bloomberg J Sainsbury Plc raised its profit forecast, underlining the bullish trends for UK supermarkets that have focused private equity bidders’ attention on the grocer’s smaller rival, Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc. Sainsbury expects to generate profit of 660 million pounds ($917 million) this fiscal year, up from a previous forecast of 620 million pounds and exceeding pre-Covid levels, the grocer ...

Bloomberg Indian tycoon Gautam Adani is seeking a loan of about $1 billion to refinance existing debt of Mumbai’s international airport, according to people familiar with the matter. Barclays Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co are among banks in discussions to provide the funds to Adani Airport Holdings Ltd, the people said. Deutsche Bank AG is also in talks to ...

Bloomberg Thailand plans to convert a terminal at the nation’s main international airport into a field hospital as a surge in coronavirus infections that’s straining the nation’s public health system shows little sign of easing. Airports of Thailand Pcl, operator of the Suvarnabhumi International Airport, has been asked to convert the newly completed terminal into a facility with an intensive-care ...

Bloomberg Xiaomi Corp is marketing a dollar bond deal to global investors as Chinese technology companies face fresh scrutiny in an new era of tighter oversight from Beijing. The smartphone maker is looking to raise about $1 billion from the debt sale, people familiar with the matter said. That would include a rare green bond tranche from the nation’s tech ...

Bloomberg US equity-index futures rise along with stocks in Europe as investors awaited minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting for clues on policy makers’ thinking on interest rates and stimulus. Bonds stabilised after a rally. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index climbed, led by gains in commodity sectors, with Royal Dutch Shell Plc rising more than 3% after saying it ...

ISLAMABAD / WAM Pakistan has imported $6,199.069 million worth of goods against the imports of $5,976.483 million last year from the UAE, showing an increase of 3.72 percent. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in its latest figures released said, that China topped the list of countries from where Pakistan imported different products during the first eleven months of financial ...

Bloomberg London’s Heathrow Airport is dusting off facilities that have been mothballed for over a year, as Europe’s busiest airport prepares for a long-awaited surge in air traffic. The hub reopened its second runway and plans to resume normal operations at Terminal 3 starting from July 15, a spokesman said. T3 closed in May 2020, around the same time Heathrow ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered more than 70 jets in June, one of its best months for handovers since the start of the pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter. The tally would take the company’s total handovers for the first six months of the year above 290 aircraft, for an increase of about 50% versus last year. Airbus is ...