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Investor MML buys €12m stake in Fastway Couriers
- Retail & Services
- April 20, 2017, 18:42
Irish and multinational-backed investor MML has bought a minority stake in Fastway Couriers for a figure said to be about €12 million. Fastway delive(...)

Why don’t Penneys and Primark sell online?
- Retail & Services
- September 20, 2016, 07:57
Mustafa is shopping for a sweater at the flagship London store of Primark [the name of Penneys shops in the UK], the British low-cost fashion chain, w(...)

Zalando quarterly profits jump to €80.9 million
- Retail & Services
- August 11, 2016, 08:48
Zalando, Europe’s biggest pure online fashion retailer, reported a big jump in second-quarter profitability in its core business in Germany, Austria (...)

Car-makers and retailers lead way as European shares rally
- Markets
- January 12, 2016, 21:17
European markets rallied from last week’s wipeout as car-makers and retailers made gains yesterday. However, a further fall in crude oil prices dampe(...)

Debenhams shares up by 16% with help from perfume and lingerie
- Retail & Services
- January 12, 2016, 20:15
British department store chain Debenhams outshone rivals Marks & Spencer and Next over Christmas, helped by clever stock management and demand for(...)

Former banker’s labour of love strikes gold
- Technology
- March 26, 2015, 01:00
At 52, Colm Lyon is no wunderkind of the tech world. He has been ploughing away at the e-payments game for more than 15 years. Yesterday, he struck go(...)

Planet Business
- Economy
- January 16, 2015, 01:20
Image of the week: Connected cats This poor cat is wearing a “Tsunagaru Col” gadget, next to a smart phone displaying the connected app, at the(...)

Profit warning hammers shares in Boohoo.com
- Retail & Services
- January 7, 2015, 18:57
Shares in British online fashion retailer Boohoo. com plunged by almost half after fierce discounts across the industry hit sales and forced it to sla(...)

Revenues at online retailer boohoo.com up 63 per cent
- Retail & Services
- June 12, 2014, 08:05
British online fashion retailer boohoo.com reported a 63 per cent rise in full-year revenue, driven by recovering consumer confidence that spurred mor(...)

Eye-popping IPO gains are the exception not the rule
- Personal Finance
- May 27, 2014, 01:10
The appetite of investors for initial public offerings has been on the up in 2014, with the hype machine set to go into overdrive when Chinese online (...)