The Germans just can’t do it
The problems came after KFC switched its deliveries from Bidvest Logistics to DHL in a deal struck last year. DHL said “operational issues” meant several KFC deliveries over recent days had been...
View ArticleAbleist bastards!
Fruit picker shortage leaves British farmers accepting anyone with ‘two hands and two legs’ A one armed fruit picker might be a bit slow but legs? An alternative is to raise wages of course…..
View ArticleBleedin’ idiocy
Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, is by most accounts a mild mannered sort of guy with classic West Coast liberal views. There is one thing, however, that makes him as ballistic as one of his Blue...
View ArticleIn case you missed it….
I know precisely nothing about Banks’ business dealings, don’t even know how he made his pot. But meeting people to discuss whether to do a deal with them is how he will now be spending his business...
View ArticleSounds like there’re some bargains out there
A cash rich investor with balls of steel could have a go: A family who have seen the value of their London flat slashed from £600,000 to just £90,000 because of Grenfell-style cladding will sue a...
View ArticleWell, no, not really
Carillion crisis ‘could happen again’ It’s bust and gone, isn’t it? At the same time the public sector has become too reliant on a small handful of big businesses which are effectively “too big to...
View ArticleThe secret of the under volcano base
A parasite spread by cats could be the key to being a successful entrepreneur, scientists have concluded. The discovery suggests there may be a bizarre advantage to being infected by the organism,...
View ArticleFacebook? Cash cow?
The Silicon Valley giant, which for years has served as a reliable cash cow for shareholders, Normally – abut we’d not expect the Telegraph’s young shavers to know this, would we? – cash cow is...
View ArticleHa, ha, ha, that’s a cute legal claim
Four of Europe’s biggest airlines have joined forces in a fight against striking French air traffic controllers, demanding European authorities step in and help a sector that is “on the point of...
View ArticleThink it’s probably gone
House of Fraser has admitted to having just 11 days to save 17,000 jobs as the retailer scrambles to secure a lifeline before its cash runs dry. The stricken department store chain must pull in fresh...
View ArticleThis is fairly cheeky
One of the losing bidders for House of Fraser has urged its new owner Mike Ashley to “do the right thing” and pay all its suppliers and concession holders in full because he clinched the deal so...
View ArticleSo, have I understood the idea of “adserver” technology correctly?
Just a bit of technical background if someone can help me out. This. In November, Timehop instructed some of its product engineers to begin building an ad server that focused on its own inventory,...
View ArticleQuelle surprise
A judge has branded former BHS owner Dominic Chappell “evasive” and “entirely unbelievable” as his appeal for failing to hand over vital documents to the pensions watchdog was rejected yesterday....
View ArticleNow Elon has to take Tesla private
For he’s not going to be allowed to run a public company for much longer, is he?
View ArticleSurprise!
Sports Direct sacks former directors and senior management at House of Fraser What else are you going to do with the people who screwed up?
View ArticleThe thing about the placebo effect is
That the placebo effect works. Cough syrup maker Benylin has been accused of selling identical pills as cures for different types of colds. Benylin’s medicines, one of which claims to be for “chesty”,...
View ArticleChannel stuffing
Tesla has turned the largest profit in its history, and the first recorded by the company in two years. The electric car maker made more than $300m (£232m) in the third quarter of the year, a result...
View ArticleI think we can guess that Sports Direct has less than 20% of its sales online
Retail tycoon Mike Ashley wants to see a 20pc tax levied on online sales and prison sentences for executives who consistently “fiddle” their way out of paying the levy, as part of his plan to save the...
View ArticleJust can’t remember the damn word
Or phrase perhaps. So, piecework, when you give out the materials, get the people to do the work, pay per piece completed. OK. But there’s another phrase for when you go up a level. The “merchant” is...
View ArticleWilly Hutton’s gusset dampener
Huawei may protest its innocence – it’s a private company undertaking its own research – but nobody is fooled. Every substantial company in China has a Communist party committee overseeing it. Will...
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