December, 2018

• 11 December

  Walmart, Amazon bring grocery wars to NY

  

  Bloomberg For many years, FreshDirect has ruled the online grocery business in New York. In a city where most people don’t own cars, the company prospered by delivering a broad selection of fresh food to New Yorkers’ stoops and front lobbies. Families from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side came to rely on FreshDirect’s prepared meals, which were a snap ...

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• 11 December

  Sears seeks store offers for turnaround

  

  Bloomberg Sears Holdings Corp. is shopping around its stores, looking to gauge what they’re worth in the open market while it weighs Chairman Eddie Lampert’s $4.6 billion bid to buy the entire chain and keep it open. The firm has hired real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. to market its portfolio of about 500 US stores and so far ...

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• 11 December

  Bombardier CFO plans to refinance bonds soon

  

  Bloomberg Bombardier Inc., the debt-laden manufacturer in the middle of a turnaround plan, expects to be able to refinance bonds next year even if high-yield markets remain skittish. The company’s next major debt maturity is $850 million due in March 2020, with more than $2 billion coming the year after that, according to company filings. As the 2021 maturities come ...

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• 11 December

  Delta bans ‘support animals’ on flights

  

  Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. is barring emotional-support and service animals that are less than four months old, while banning all support animals from flights longer than eight hours. The changes will take effect for tickets issued on or after December 18, the carrier said. Passengers who bought tickets before then and who already requested to travel with an emotional ...

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• 11 December

  Coca-Cola to sell historic Fifth Avenue Tower

  

  Bloomberg Coca-Cola Co. has hired Cushman & Wakefield to sell a midtown Manhattan tower known as the Coca-Cola Building. The 18-story property, on the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and 55th Street, was inherited by Coca-Cola in 1983, through its purchase of Columbia Pictures. The beverage company “has determined that it does not need to retain its investment in the ...

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• 10 December

  OFID to provide $50mn to Egypt

  

  VIENNA / WAM The Opec Fund for International Development (OFID) has agreed to provide $50 million to support Egypt’s purchase of crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas. A statement issued by OFID from its headquarters in Vienna declared that OFID contributes to cover the gap between fuel consumption and local production in Egypt. “Energy security is critical to ...

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• 10 December

  Retail sales in 4 Gulf states to grow $24bn by 2023

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business Retail sales across four Gulf countries are projected to increase by more than $24 billion over the next five years, with the UAE expected to lead this trend with an estimated growth rate of 16%, according to new research from Euromonitor International. Euromonitor’s report reveals that Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are all set ...

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• 10 December

  Cosco opens Abu Dhabi terminal at Khalifa Port

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Cosco Shipping Ports and Abu Dhabi Ports inaugurated CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal at Khalifa Port, on Mon- day, positioning Abu Dhabi as the regional hub for Cosco’s global network of 36 ports and further connecting the emirate to the major trade hubs along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The deepwater, semi-automated container terminal includes the ...

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• 10 December

  FTA discusses VAT refund plan for foreign businesses

  DUBAI / WAM The board of directors of Federal Tax Authority (FTA) discussed value added tax (VAT) refund scheme for foreign businesses at its 7th me-eting, headed by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Industry, and FTA Chairman. According to Federal Decree-Law No. (8) of 2017 on VAT, as well ...

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• 10 December

  Mubadala completes acquisition of 20% stake in Egypt concession

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Mubadala Petroleum announced that it has completed the acquisition from Italy’s Eni of a 20 percent participating interest in the Nour North Sinai Offshore Area (Nour) concession, an offshore exploration block in Egypt. In the concession, which is in participation with Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS), Eni as operator through its subsidiary (IEOC) now holds ...

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