Dive Brief: The global social commerce industry is expected to grow three times as fast as traditional e-commerce, from $492 billion in 2021 to $1.2 trillion by 2025, a new Accenture report titled “Why Shopping’s Set for a Social Revolution” revealed. The growth will be driven by Gen Z and […]
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at barely 12 times earnings, risk-tolerant investors could get a bargain with Anexo
A good portion of that dip relates to investment for future growth and a larger workforce, while a lot of the company’s customers are key workers, who are keeping going. Credit volumes are recovering quickly and the number of hire vehicles on the road in August exceeded forecasts. Meanwhile, Anexo raised […]
Popeyes looks to end year early with Times Square countdown celebrating chicken sandwich
Dive Brief: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of its fried chicken sandwich with a campaign focused on the unexpected changes of 2020, according to a company announcement. The effort, developed with agency Gut, positions the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich as something that consumers can rely […]
Times are tough, but young people can find joy in starting their own business
Q: My granddaughter, who got her A-level results last week, is considering her future. In these difficult times, can you encourage young people to go into business? Is it fun? Are there happy and rewarding times to be had? A: Young people have drawn the short straw: school work at […]
Sustainable investing comes to fore in tough times
Once a month since the pandemic began, we have asked our analysts what they are hearing from the companies they follow. Part of that survey focuses on sustainability issues and, again, the findings have challenged the cynical view that in a time of crisis companies will revert to thinking exclusively […]
Days of the shovel are long gone. The times demand we adapt, adapt, adapt
Gove extolled the need for the Government to “learn quickly, adjust and respond”. But the best economic mechanism we have for rapid adjustment to changed circumstances is, in fact, a market economy, driven by profit and loss. As lockdowns end we need businesses and workers to reorganise according to their […]
‘I made 10 times my money after a teenager told me about Boohoo in 2015’
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Alternative Investment Market this week, Telegraph Money has spoken to three committed Aim investors about how they approach the market and reveal their best and worst investments. Bryan Somers, 75, who lives in Belfast, is a regular investor in the Alternative Investment Market […]
Coronavirus research already 100 times more than SARS
TOKYO — The coronavirus pandemic has produced an worldwide explosion of research that has outpaced peer reviews, suggesting a new trend in public health science that favors speed over established channels. In four months, about 10,000 research papers were produced on the novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China, last year, according to […]
Coors Light boosts morale with new ads, free beer in ‘sucky times’
Dive Brief: Coors Light is giving away up to $1 million of beer in a new social media contest that aims to boost morale among Americans in lockdown, the company announced Tuesday. The #CouldUseABeer effort is part of a larger campaign by the Molson Coors brand. A 45-second anthem spot and […]
BBC Thai Service boosts audience in dark times
LONDON/BANGKOK — “We don’t want to be the primary source of news, we want to be different,” said Nopporn Wong-Anan, a Bangkok Post veteran who heads the BBC Thai Service in London that liaises with a small team in Bangkok. “We try to add to the mainstream media and basically […]