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Chile's Morandé Wine Group expands beyond traditional wine with a 7% ABV cherry rosé, listing at Total Wine & More as Belle Cherry. The first release under the new Belle brand.
Harrods swung to a £84.9m profit after exceptional costs for redress and restructuring fell by £76m. Revenue edged up 1.2% as the luxury retailer consolidates on its Knightsbridge flagship.
Vast cut 46 employees Wednesday in performance-related layoffs, the startup confirmed. The $500 million-funded company still has 277 open roles as it races to build a commercial ISS successor.
Quality medals went to Tuborg Strong and Carlsberg Elephant Strong; the other six wins at the World Beer Awards 2026 covered packaging design across four brands.
India and Singapore deepen semiconductor cooperation at fourth ministerial roundtable, with implications for Apple's supply chain and digital payments. The pact also covers green hydrogen and healthcare.
Tube Investments added 2.69% in Shanthi Gears via a block deal, taking its holding to 73.16%. The gear maker's revenue fell to ₹519 crore in FY26.
Sreedhar N wants to shift Indian construction from brick to dry walls. The company is training workers, engaging developers, and pushing for tighter building codes.
The lender is facilitating S$6.9 billion in financing as the Johor-Singapore economic zone attracts record FDI. The partnership targets manufacturers expanding across the border.
Netweb Technologies raised ₹1,200 crore from marquee investors including Nomura, Goldman Sachs, and ICICI Prudential. The stock surged 4.14% to a new high of ₹5,674.80.
Thales VP Caio Reis says banks have 18-24 months to prepare payment systems for AI-initiated transactions, warning that legacy lift-and-shift cloud migrations preserve technical debt.
ASR's H1 net profit hit €809M from €126M, with fee-based business up 32% and Non-life combined ratio beating target at 91.6%.
French regulators found 95% of Boohoo's promotions misleading, with 48% actually increasing prices. Shares fell 2.4% on the £2m fine.
Flex office leasing hit 25% of India's total in H1 2026, up from 16% a year ago, as AI-native startups and GCCs drive demand. Executives caution the broader flex boom isn't all AI.
Fairfax may get two years to sell or merge its CSB Bank stake to clear RBI rules for the IDBI Bank acquisition, sources said.
HIPL expects KARNAGE to account for 20% of revenue by FY'29 after an initial ₹2.5 crore investment. The gaming peripherals brand targets gamers and creators as the company pursues ~35% CAGR through FY'28.
A leaflet proofreading turned an afternoon into unpaid labor. As AI pushes errors to customers, companies face hidden costs in time, trust, and churn. The risk is a widening divide between good and bad jobs.
Nobel Hygiene, backed by Quadria Capital, filed DRHP for IPO with ₹150 crore fresh issue and OFS of 1.55 crore shares. Proceeds to repay debt, expand capacity.
The Meta CEO paid an estimated €20-30 million for Strancally Castle, a 440-acre estate on the River Blackwater. The purchase deepens his ties to Ireland, where Meta employs 1,500 people.
A teenage friend who builds a company may predict your own entrepreneurship decades later, new research finds. Formal ventures matter more than freelance work.
Upstox ranks 5th in active clients, wins GIFT City nod for international stock trading. IPO of $350-400M may include fresh shares and OFS.
Below-normal rain from August 20 to September 2 threatens India's kharif crop and food inflation, with the southward belt shift offering only partial relief for Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Unitree's Wang defines the ChatGPT moment as a robot completing about 80% of tasks in unfamiliar homes; he sees it in 2-3 years, or as many as 10.
ERCOT proposes requiring Bitcoin mines and data centers to bid into real-time power markets, replacing voluntary curtailment with automatic price-based penalties.
The Cato Institute's Adam Michel put a $200 trillion price tag on democratic socialism. The real problem: the policies would destroy the tax base needed to pay for them.
Telix revenue up 22%, Zip guides to $340M cash EBTDA. HotCopper buzz also centers on Liontown, American Tungsten funding, and BrainChip's IBM bundle.
Vance says Iran felt more pressure than the U.S. in recent weeks. Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains a fraction of pre-war levels.
Prabha Narasimhan promoted to EVP Marketing Asia-Pacific; Manish Anandani returns from Kenvue to lead Colgate-Palmolive India as MD & CEO.
Staff fraud is only 8% of total bank fraud cases but likely much higher in value. Banks need automated red-flag rules and behavioural analytics to catch insiders who exploit CBS architecture.
Goop founder posts fake invitations for Shrek, Jessica Rabbit after critics call 'off-the-record' dinner tone-deaf. Paltrow has invested in AI startups.
Noble Helium acquires Earth Source Hydrogen, adding ~40,000 sq km of helium-prospective acreage in Western Australia, expanding its global portfolio beyond Tanzania.