A coalition of 15 major investors managing 2.4 trillion pounds ($3 trillion) will use this year's shareholder meeting season to press some of Britain's biggest listed employers to protect their lowest-paid workers during the cost-of-living crisis.
Britain's Co-Operative Group , the mutually-owned supermarkets to funeral homes group, maintained operating profit at 100 million pounds ($125 million) in 2022 despite the pressure of inflation in food, energy and wages.
The stumps of dozens of apple trees lie discarded along the side of a field. The fruit that helped give the "Garden of England" its name hundreds of years ago no longer makes money so farmer James Smith is tearing down his orchards.
Walmart Inc has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which on Tuesday accused the largest U.S. retailer of illegally firing a North Carolina deli worker with Crohn's disease.
British retail consultant and television personality Mary Portas has written an open letter to the John Lewis Partnership accusing the group of losing its soul for considering a change to its longstanding model of employee ownership.