Ski firm Sunweb faces legal fight over ticket refund plan

Skiing holiday provider faces legal action after backtracking on promise to refund tickets for cancelled festival By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:52 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 3 May 2020 A skiing holiday provider faces legal action after backtracking on a promise to refund tickets for a cancelled festival.  … Read more

CeX customers left out of pocket after tech firm delivers faulty items

A number of shoppers have been left out of pocket after purchasing items from the second-hand tech store, CeX that haven’t turned up, according to an exclusive report for This is Money by Which?. Some customers, including key workers, have reported receiving faulty items according to the consumer group, while others have not received online … Read more

Sportswear firm Adidas suffers hit as profits slump 93%

Profits at Adidas slump 93% as it reports more than half of its business still at a standstill By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:17 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 22:17 BST, 27 April 2020 Profits at Adidas slumped 93 per cent as it reported that more than half of its business … Read more

Firm using magic mushroom extracts to treat clinical depression raises £64million from investors

Tech start up using magic mushroom extracts to treat clinical depression raises £64million from investors including billionaire Paypal founder Peter Thiel Compass Pathways researching psilocybin, which is found in ‘magic mushroom’ The company plans to trial a synthetic form on patients with clinical depression If it is a success and approved, Compass hope to market … Read more

Whistleblower who exposed British firm Ernst & Young for ‘using black market gold’ awarded £8m 

A whistleblower whose career was ‘ruined’ after he raised concerns about an ‘unethical’ audit of a Dubai gold refiner by his former employers EY has been awarded around £8.8 million in damages. Auditor Amjad Rihan brought a claim at the High Court in London against four businesses within the network of the global accountancy firm, … Read more

US firm ThermoFisher says it can supply UK with 100,000 COVID-19 test kits per day

The Government’s target of 100,000 coronavirus tests per day could be hit by a single company which will make tests in the UK, the firm claims. Thermo Fisher Scientific, a company based in the US state of Massachusetts, said it has the capacity to supply all of the 700,000 tests per week. It will work … Read more

Amazon first warehouse-worker death from COVID-19 as firm sacks three workers calling for safety

A worker at an Amazon warehouse in Southern California has died from the coronavirus. Gerard Tuzara worked as an operations manager at Amazon’s Hawthorne facility near LAX airport.   Tuzara is thought to have passed away on March 31st and is the first known employee from the company to die from the disease.  His death comes … Read more

Pharmaceutical firm to donate two million tablets of malaria drug to world’s largest COVID-19 trial 

A pharmaceutical firm will donate two million antimalarials to the world’s largest COVID-19 medication trial following Donald Trump‘s praise of the drug. Accord Healthcare Ltd, a global medicine distributor, will supply hydroxychloroquine to 40,000 frontline healthcare workers in the COPCOV study.  They will take a hydroxychloroquine tablet daily and be followed for a five-month period to … Read more