Food delivered from upmarket grocer had shortest shelf life of its UK rivals, Which? study showsWaitrose has been rated Britain’s worst large online retailer for grocery freshness, according to research.The consumer group Which? investigated the qualit…
Prudential won’t pay up on our paid-up policy
To pay out on my father’s policy the company wanted information no one could hope to provideWay back in 1955, my parents both took out life insurance policies with the Prudential. In 1993 they were told by the company that the policies were “paid-up”, …
Female directors still being paid a small fraction of their male counterparts
Gender pay gap among blue-chip companies far worse than in the general population, a new report showsFemale directors at the UK’s biggest companies are still being paid a fraction of the amount their male counterparts receive, new research shows, under…
UK food firms beg ministers to let them use prisoners to ease labour shortages
Meat processors and others say they must have more day release workers as they cannot find enough staffDesperate food manufacturers are pleading with the government to be able to call upon prisoners to solve a labour crisis blamed on the double blow of…
UK’s most deprived areas have highest number of gambling outlets – report
21% of Britain’s gambling outlets are in the poorest tenth of the country, with 2% in the most affluent zonesThe UK’s most deprived areas have more than 10 times the number of betting shops than the most affluent parts of the country, research shows.Ga…
‘Hand on heart, I don’t do this for money’: Zillah Byng-Thorne on success at Future
The CEO shares the secret of how she masterminded the magazine publisher’s remarkable turnaroundWhen Zillah Byng-Thorne took over at Future, she remembers spending her first year worrying that she would not be able to pay staff as the stricken magazine…
眼鏡販売に必要な「検眼」もオンラインで。D2Cの旗手ワービー・パーカーの次なる革新
ダイレクト・トゥ・コンシューマー（D2C）の眼鏡ブランドとして知られる米国のワービー・パーカーが、このほど新しい検眼アプリを公開した。眼鏡販売の実店舗主義に反旗を翻した同社がこの新たなアプリで目指す先は、伝統的な検眼の刷新だ。しかし、一部の専門家からは疑問の声も上がっている。
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驚異的な成長率、YouTube、Facebook、Netflixで1ユーザーあたり売上高の最強は？
コロナ禍も追い風となり、Facebook、YouTubeの売上高が前年比50%以上と驚異の成長率を見せています。個人課金モデルのNetflixと比較した結果、最強なのは？
パタゴニアが渋谷で“国内初の古着専門店”を開いた理由…「必要ないモノは買わないで」
新品よりもずっといい——。パタゴニアが渋谷にオープンさせた、初の中古品専門店を現地取材。日本支社長が語った、出店の狙いとは？
Carbon from UK’s blue hydrogen bid still to equal 1m petrol cars
Government’s plan to use ‘blue’ fossil-fuel hydrogen alongside green version raises concern, say campaignersOpting for hydrogen that is made using fossil fuels rather than renewable electricity could create up to 8m tonnes of carbon emissions every yea…