Rishi Sunak could launch a tax raid on online businesses – including a green tax on deliveries – as part of plans to replenish the country’s coffers in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The Chancellor is reportedly looking to ‘level up the playing field’ between online and high street businesses as part of a series … Read more
The hunt for ‘beige gold’: Surge in home deliveries has led to a shortage of cardboard… and sent its value soaring six-fold in a year An extra 200million packages were sent to homes in the run-up to Christmas Recycling plants have been hit by Covid cases and social distancing rules Cardboard has risen five or … Read more
AstraZeneca has warned EU countries it will cut deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine by 60 per cent to 31 million doses in the first quarter due to production problems. The decrease deals another blow to Europe’s Covid-19 vaccination drive after Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE slowed supplies of their vaccine to the bloc this … Read more
Covid vaccine manufacturer Pfizer is shrinking and delaying its deliveries to Europe while it expands its factory in Belgium. The company makes one of just two vaccines that are being given to the public in the UK and confirmed that Britain would be affected in late January and February. Concerns about vaccine deliveries in the … Read more
Supermarkets have been forced to cancel online food deliveries after heavy snow and ice brought travel chaos to areas of Britain amid concerns temperatures could plunge to -10C overnight. Drivers were urged to stay off the roads with treacherous conditions predicted by the AA if thawing snow turns to ice overnight, with Britons in some … Read more
Business Secretary Alok Sharma today admitted only ‘some’ of the 800,000 shots are already in the UK Fears Britain won’t get any more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s approved coronavirus vaccine before New Year may have prompted officials to bump frontline NHS staff down the queue, with care home residents now expected to begin receiving their jabs … Read more
Catering giant Compass is offering home deliveries as it shifts towards a future where more of its tech office staff work remotely. Boss Dominic Blakemore expects widespread home working to continue after the pandemic, with white collar employees likely to do so for two and a half days per week. It has prompted the company, … Read more
Ocado soars as second lockdown boosts demand for deliveries: Profits forecast jumps 50% to £60m By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:52 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 2 November 2020 Ocado expects profits to hit £60m this year Ocado’s shares soared as the second wave of coronavirus boosted demand for … Read more
Poland is telling over-70s to stay at home and drafting in military reservists to help deliver food to their homes as the country tries to avoid a full-scale coronavirus lockdown, with the second wave continuing to grow rapidly across Europe. Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki declared the entire country a ‘red zone’ today after total infections … Read more
Amazon bosses BAN sales of suspicious seeds from China after spate of unsolicited deliveries in UK Households have received unsolicited deliveries of seeds in recent months They were posted to customers who had previously bought legitimate seeds Amazon said it will now ‘only permit the sale of seeds by sellers based in the EU’ Amazon … Read more