The battle to keep Poundland going is being fought on two fronts and a preferred bidder for the struggling group could emerge this week. Photo: Sandra Halliday First, the discount retailer’s parent company Pepco Group is understood to want to sweeten a takeover bid by Gordon Brothers to the tune of tens of millions of pounds,…
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much autonomy the agency’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, had. After all, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk’s signature cost-cutting project, helped drive decisions to cancel…
Calvin Klein owner PVH Corp. on Wednesday announced first-quarter sales beat expectations to rise 2% to $1.984 billion, thanks to growth at its Tommy Hilfiger brand. Calvin Klein The New York-based company said Calvin Klein brand sales were flat at for the three months ending May 4, outpaced by a 3% sales uptick at brother brand, Tommy…
Burberry’s preliminary results for FY25 on Wednesday were even more closely watched than usual. Not only are observers keen to see whether the luxury British business can bounce back from the wider luxury downturn but also specifically whether its new ‘back to the essentials’ strategy under CEO Joshua Schulman is yielding results. Kate Winslet for…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country. On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the…
Environmental Health Perspectives, widely considered the premier environmental health journal, has announced that it would pause acceptance of new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future uncertain. For more than 50 years, the journal has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to review studies on the health effects of environmental…
On April 1, the Trump administration’s effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That morning, hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were notified that they were being terminated and would lose access to…
Every Monday, Maurine Gentis, a retired teacher, waits for a delivery from Meals on Wheels South Texas. “The meals help stretch my budget,” Ms. Gentis, 77, said. Living alone and in a wheelchair, she appreciates having someone look in on her regularly. The same group, a nonprofit, delivers books from the library and dry food…
It may be part of the giant Capri Holdings that reports results quarterly but we rarely hear about Michael Kors’ specific UK performance so the filing of its accounts for the year to March 2024 is certainly illuminating. See catwalkMichael Kors – Spring-Summer2024 – Womenswear – Etats-Unis – New York – © Launchmetrics Turnover dropped…
If congressional Republicans go through with some of the deep Medicaid cuts they are considering, three states would be left in an especially tight bind. South Dakota, Missouri and Oklahoma have state constitutions requiring that they participate in Medicaid expansion, the part of Obamacare that expanded the health program for the poor to millions of…