Aircraft maker Airbus and tour operator Tui reveal plans to axe staff

Travel lockdown triggers another 18,000 job cuts: Aircraft maker Airbus and tour operator Tui reveal plans to axe staff By Tom Witherow and Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 13 May 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 13 May 2020 Airbus and Tui are set to slash thousands of jobs as planes around … Read more

Ray-ban maker Essilor Luxottica’s Thailand factory hit by £160m scam

Ray-Ban maker Essilor Luxottica’s Thailand factory hit by staff’s £160m scam By Daily Mail City & Finance Published: 21:50 BST, 30 December 2019 | Updated: 10:10 BST, 31 December 2019 Staff at a spectacles factory in Thailand have scammed Essilor Luxottica out of up to £162million. The company behind the Ray-Ban and Michael Kors brands … Read more

Rolls-Royce says it will be the first UK car maker to resume production from 4 May

Rolls-Royce says it will be the first UK car maker to resume production from 4 May – ahead of luxury rival Bentley Bosses at the British car maker said 1,000 employees will return on Monday That’s around half the total workforce at the Goodwood factory near Chichester It means Rolls-Royce will be back making cars … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Peppa Pig maker Entertainment One rebuts rumour chief is planning to quit 

MARKET REPORT: Peppa Pig maker Entertainment One rebuts rumour its president Mark Gordon is planning to quit By Jon Hopkins For The Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 6 June 2019 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 6 June 2019 Entertainment One shares surged nearly 16 per cent higher after the maker of Peppa Pig refuted a report that … Read more

PUNT OF THE WEEK: AIM-listed alcoholic drinks maker Distil

PUNT OF THE WEEK: AIM-listed alcoholic drinks maker Distil surged 97% between January and March By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 10 April 2020 AIM-listed drinks maker Distil’s brands include Blackwoods Gin and Red Leg Spiced Rum What is it? An AIM-listed alcoholic drinks … Read more

Podcast maker Audioboom sees turnover rise 40% in the first quarter

Podcast maker Audioboom sees turnover rise 40% in the first quarter but warns advertising revenue could be hit by coronavirus By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:59 BST, 7 April 2020 | Updated: 23:19 BST, 7 April 2020 Audioboom has long been backed by property tycoon Nick Candy (who is married to actress … Read more

MIDAS SHARE TIPS: How’s this for herd immunity? Animal feed maker with an anti-viral additive

MIDAS SHARE TIPS: How’s this for herd immunity? Animal feed maker with an anti-viral additive By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 Coronavirus has turned business as usual on its head. With the country in lockdown, millions of people on furlough and … Read more

Britain’s first ‘Incel’ bomb maker told friend he wanted to ‘massacre this place’

Britain’s first ‘involuntary celibate’ bomb-maker has pleaded guilty to possessing explosive substances, downloading terror manuals and discussing plans to launch an attack. Anwar Said Driouich, 22, from Middlesbrough, was part of a misogynistic movement named ‘Incel’ which has been associated with at least six mass-shootings in the US. Followers believe in genetic determinism and blame … Read more

iPhone maker Foxconn says it has hired enough workers to meet seasonal demand following shutdown

Apple’s iPhone maker Foxconn hires enough workers to meet ‘seasonal demand’ for this year’s smartphone after being closed for weeks due to the coronavirus Foxconn shut its factories down last month due to the coronavirus outbreak The firm re-opened, but only 10% of its staff had returned to work Foxconn says it has hired enough … Read more

Every major UK car maker halts or slashes production  

Every major UK car maker halts or slashes production because of the coronavirus crisis By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 22:29 GMT, 20 March 2020 Every major car maker in the UK has halted or slashed production because of the coronavirus crisis.  Jaguar Land Rover became … Read more