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01.04.26 - 01:36
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Two-thirds of UK hospitality businesses plan to cut jobs and one in seven will close, survey finds (The Guardian)
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Sector cites 'billions of pounds in additional costs' from new business rates and increase in minimum wage thresholdsTwo-thirds of hospitality businesses are planning to cut jobs as a result of “suffocating” costs imposed by government, as new business rates and higher wage bills come into force.Many pubs, restaurants and hotel companies will see their costs increase significantly from 1 April after Rachel Reeves's changes to business rates and an increase in minimum wage thresholds announced at the chancellor's November budget. Continue reading......
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01.04.26 - 01:36
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Want to boost the UK′s birthrate? Fix the housing crisis, research suggests (The Guardian)
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Policymakers should address financial barriers that hinder young people from starting families, says thinktank Politicians hoping to persuade young people in the UK to have more children should prioritise tackling housing affordability, according to research by the Resolution Foundation thinktank.There has been growing concern in recent years about Britain's declining birthrate, given the long-term fiscal pressures of supporting an ageing population. Continue reading......
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31.03.26 - 23:18
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Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. Announces Annual General Meeting (Business Wire)
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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. (LN:PSH) (LN:PSHD) today announced that its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (“AGM”) will be held on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM (BST) at Trafalgar Court, Les Banques, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 3QL. The results of the voting will be announced as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the AGM.
At the AGM, shareholders will consider the receipt of the annual report and the financial statements, the re-appointment of PSH's auditor and authorization of the Directors to determine its remuneration, the re-election of the existing Directors with the exception of Bilge Ogut, who is not offering herself up for re-election due to having taken a full time executive position, the renewal of PSH's share buy-back authority, the approval to disapply pre-emption rights for any share issuance of 10% (as is customary in the London investment fund market), and the amendment of the Articles to change the Director remuneration limit.
The speci...
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31.03.26 - 22:48
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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK′s cargo theft crisis be stopped? (The Guardian)
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It costs the UK economy £700m a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacked, it's Mike Dawber who investigatesIn August 2021, Mike Dawber, the UK's leading detective in cargo crime, got a call from officers in Bradford CID. They were planning to search two warehouses that contained, in their words, an awful lot of suspicious goods. This was a job that required Dawber's expert eye. He drove an hour from his home, in the unmarked police car that doubles as his office, and arrived to discover the description barely did it justice.As soon as he walked in to the first warehouse, he noticed 17 pallets of golfing equipment. They had, he knew, been stolen three weeks before from a truck at Lymm motorway services, just outside Manchester. He reckoned they were worth about £1m. As Dawber continued his survey, he came across 18 pallets of Asics trainers, stolen three years before, at Warwick services. Then 14 pallets of lawnmowers: five years bef...
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31.03.26 - 22:36
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Aptiv and Versigent to Release First Quarter 2026 Financial Results on May 5 (Business Wire)
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SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV), a global industrial technology company, will release its first quarter 2026 financial results on May 5, 2026 prior to market open, and will hold an investor call the same day at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. These financial results will be reported as Total Aptiv, including the Electrical Distribution Systems (EDS) business as a segment.
Aptiv's call will be hosted by Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Clark, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Varun Laroyia. A link to the live webcast and presentation materials will be made available on the Aptiv Investor Relations website at ir.aptiv.com. A replay will be available two hours following the conference call.
To participate by telephone in the Aptiv conference call, please dial +1-800-330-6710 (U.S.) or +1-213-279-1505 (International) 15 minutes prior to the start of the call and ask to be connected to the Aptiv PLC conference call. The conference ID number is 6661715...
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31.03.26 - 22:33
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Scheme of Arrangement becomes Effective and takeover offer declared unconditional (GlobeNewswire EN)
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31 March 2026 | SAINT HELIER, Jersey | On 8 September 2025 CoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares”) (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF) announced a joint merger plan with Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp (Nasdaq: VCIC) (which, as at the date of this press release, has merged with and into Odysseus Cayman pursuant to the SPAC Merger) (“Vine Hill”) and Odysseus Holdings Limited (“Odysseus Holdings”), including a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement under Article 125 of the Jersey Companies Law (“Scheme of Arrangement”) (such joint merger plan and the Scheme of Arrangement being together the “Transaction”). The Transaction once completed would in effect facilitate a change of listing venue for CoinShares shares from Nasdaq Stockholm to the Nasdaq Stock Market in the United States (“Nasdaq”). On 18 February 2026 CoinShares published a scheme circular in relation to the Scheme of Arrangement (the “Scheme Circular”)....
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