There has been a contraction in the manufacturing activity in China for the third consecutive month in February 2019 according to data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dropped to a level below the expectations of analysts. This level also marks the lowest level of the official manufacturing PMI…
Warnings of additional cash problems in the coming time were issued by the newly appointed CEO of General Electric Co. even as the company is facing some tough problems in revenues and profits which resulted in a significant drop in the shares of the company as investors lost confidence in the nascent turnaround efforts of…
Companies that do not have any women directors or have a not so clean history with respect to taxes is being planned to be put under pressure by a group of Christian church investors in the UK. The Church Investors Group has pension fund members with £21bn in assets. Those large companies that have poor…
The Luxury British car manufacturer maker Aston Martin is in the process of making continuous investments in the development and manufacturing of new models and a second manufacturing unit as a part of its turnaround strategy and this drove down the adjusted pre-tax profits for the company in 2018. The company reported a year on…
Marks & Spencer has entered into a joint venture with online supermarket pioneer Ocado and has thus forayed into the online full delivery service market. On Wednesday, British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has agreed to form a joint venture with Ocado, an online supermarket pioneer. The development assumes significance since it would provide M&S…
According to Public Relations experts, Chinese tech company Huawei is in fact benefitting from the extensive and global coverage that the company is getting because of the call of the United States to ban the company and its urging of the its allies to do the same. The US fears that the telecom equipment supplied…
The department store chain Macy’s announced retrenchment of about 100 jobs in its management category as a part of the company’s efforts to cut down costs and enhance profitability even as sales continue to fall. In the fourth quarter, the company however performed better than the market expectations which were lowered earlier. However the company…
Owner and founder of US electric car maker Tesla, Elon Muskm is again embroiled in a controversy with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States. A US judge has been asked by the SEC to hold Elon Musk in contempt for violating a settlement agreement which resulted in a drop in the…
As a part of its restructuring plan and to further focus completely on its core business some of the peripheral businesses are being sold off by the once sprawling conglomerate General Electric. The company announced the selling off its biopharma business to Danaher Corp. for $21.4 billion. Last year, revenue of $3 billion was generated…
Car maker Peugeot has announced that its portfolio would soon have a full-electric version of its new-generation 208 hatchback and some of its smaller cars would be made more upscale by the addition of newer technology and materials that one can usually find in the more costly high end cars made by the company such…
