Bloomberg As space in economy class becomes ever more constrained, airlines have devised a more spacious cabin product for passengers priced out of business class but determined to escape the indignities of steerage. Called “premium economy,” this section of added frills between coach and business aims to address a widening gap that has emerged between those cabins—and to extract ...

  Bloomberg Luxury fashion startup Farfetch is meeting advisers about an initial public offering in New York as early as the end of next year, according to people familiar with the matter. Farfetch will appoint advisers in the coming months, the people said, asking not to be named as the details aren’t public. No final decisions have been made, and ...

  Bloomberg Britain’s retailers received a much-needed boost last month as sales grew for the first time since January. Same-store sales rose 0.7 percent compared with October last year, business advisory firm BDO LLP said in its monthly report. Sales of home furnishings led the rebound, growing 11.6 percent. The growth is welcome news for retailers, many of whom have ...

  Bloomberg An engine on an American Airlines plane that exploded on a Chicago runway October 28, triggering a massive blaze, had an apparent manufacturing defect, US investigators said. A disk within the General Electric Co. CF6-80 engine had an “internal inclusion,” meaning some type of foreign debris was embedded within the special alloy designed to withstand the heat and ...

  Bloomberg TAG Heuer could report record growth in revenue as it increases market share amid a slump in the Swiss watch industry. The brand that considers itself the leader in “accessible luxury” has achieved double-digit growth so far in 2016, which may make it a “record year,” Chief Executive Officer Jean-Claude Biver said in a Bloomberg interview on Sunday ...

  Bloomberg Mobile Telecommunication Co. is considering introducing new services such as fiber-optic internet access in Saudi Arabia after winning an upgrade to its license, a move that would bring the scope of its offerings nearer to larger Saudi Telecom Co. Saudi Arabia’s third-largest phone operator “has the most to gain” from a licensing change by the government because it ...

  Bloomberg Iran is working on regulations to attract investment in renewable energy, according to Elham Aminzadeh, adviser to President Hassan Rouhani, as the nation considers solar, wind and hydro power as ways to diversify from regular crude-based fuel. The government is working on laws designed to be as attractive for foreign investment as they are for domestic companies, Aminzadeh ...

  Reuters Gulf investment firm Adeptio has chosen Kuwait’s National Investment Company (NIC) to manage a mandatory tender offer to remaining Kuwait Food Co (Americana) shareholders, the advisor said in a bourse filing on Sunday. NIC did not provide a timeframe for when the offer process would happen. The disclosure comes after Adeptio, led by prominent Dubai businessman Mohamed Alabbar, ...

  Bloomberg Egypt, which relies on imports to meets its energy needs, faces higher costs for gasoline and other oil products unless it cuts fuel subsidies after the government decided to float its currency, according to analysts at Petroleum Policy Intelligence and KBC Energy Economics. The Arab world’s most populous country took the unprecedented step on Thursday of allowing the ...

  Bloomberg OPEC can’t cut oil production alone to stabilize the market, according to the former Saudi Arabian energy minister who masterminded the pump-at-will policy the group adopted two years ago. “I don’t think OPEC by itself should cut,” Ali Al-Naimi, who for two decades was arguably the world’s most influential oil official until he retired in May, told a ...