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ASX jumps on listings rebound, Treasury Wine earnings drop 36%ASX Ltd shares had their biggest one-day jump in six years after flagging a stronger listings pipeline, with new IPOs up 37% to 92 in 2025 from 67 the year before, and average returns on those list…Home Depot CEO takes medical leaveHome Depot hasn't named an interim successor publicly, leaving investors to parse the retailer's leadership bench just as the housing-linked spending outlook stays fragile. The stock's reaction so …Eclipse glasses are running short as chasers scrambleRetailers are reporting stock shortages ahead of the next eclipse window, a reminder that niche demand spikes can still catch supply chains flat-footed.John Lewis loses its second boss in three yearsPeter Ruis is stepping down as managing director less than three years into the job, a tenure that included the department store's return to profit and a series of format experiments in beauty and …Councils get new teeth against vape shops and betting parloursEngland's councils will need to grant planning permission for new vape shops and lose the aim to permit rule that currently forces them to wave through betting-shop applications meeting licensing c…Harvey Nichols warns it could stop trading within a yearDirectors filed accounts on a break-up basis, and Mike Ashley's Frasers Group is now favourite to buy the chain after Next walked away, with bidders reportedly being asked to commit £50m-£60m in tu…Raleigh's owner files for insolvency, putting a 137-year-old brand at riskThe parent company of Raleigh, the bicycle brand that's been manufacturing in Britain since 1887, has started insolvency proceedings, putting the future of the name itself in question. Raleigh surv…Starboard takes a bite of Shake ShackJeff Smith doesn't buy restaurant stocks for the fries, he buys them because activist playbooks work reliably on chains with real estate optionality and undisciplined capital allocation. Starboard …John Lewis tells staff the turnaround still hurtsWarning staff that trading is really tough mid-turnaround is either brutal honesty or expectation management ahead of results that will not impress anyone. John Lewis has spent three years cutting …eBay raises outlook as Depop deal closesRevenue rose and eBay now folds Depop's Gen Z resale audience into a marketplace that has spent years fighting an image as somewhere only your parents sell things. The upgrade suggests the acquisit…P&G pays $3.8bn for Thorne, betting supplements beat soap marginsProcter & Gamble is paying $3.8 billion for Thorne, a supplements brand, because its core categories of detergent and toothpaste are growing at low single digits while wellness supplements compound…Pinterest's Gen Z traction turns into real revenue growthPinterest converting Gen Z engagement into sales growth matters because the platform spent years being written off as a millennial mood board with no path to ad dollars from younger users. Sales cl…Whirlpool's retreat from global scale is now costing it at homeWhirlpool spent the last decade shedding international operations to focus on North America, and that bet is now backfiring as it faces tariff-exposed input costs with none of the scale or geograph…Fast fashion's secondhand pivot is a margin play, not a green oneZara, H&M and their peers launching resale arms isn't about sustainability credentials, it's about owning the customer twice: once at first sale and again when that same item resurfaces on a platfo…Amazon and Walmart's AI shopping bots are quietly burying 'Made in USA'If AI shopping assistants are systematically deprioritising domestic manufacturing labels in product recommendations, that's a policy problem hiding inside a UX decision, not a technical glitch. Th…Yum Brands says Taco Bell sales are recovering post-cyclosporaThe outbreak dented traffic hard enough that Yum's CEO addressed it directly on the earnings call, and a fast recovery claim only holds up if the next quarter's same-store sales confirm it.Greggs found growth in matcha and protein bars, not sausage rollsGreggs grew profit despite a summer heatwave that should have hurt footfall for a hot-food bakery chain, and the answer is a menu pivot toward iced drinks, matcha, and protein-heavy snacking that's…Consumer names quietly had a very good quarterWhile the AI trade wobbles, the unglamorous end of the market is delivering. Mondelez, Sherwin-Williams, Bloom Energy, and Centene all raised full-year guidance this week, and Rio Tinto lifted its …Cracker Barrel's CEO didn't survive her own rebrandJulie Masino is stepping down roughly a year after the logo redesign that triggered a customer revolt loud enough to force the company back to its original branding within weeks. The reversal didn'…Shein posts a loss right before it needs Hong Kong investors to trust its numbersShein's swing to a loss lands at the worst possible moment, weeks ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing that was already going to face scrutiny over supply chain practices, EU tariff exposure, and t…McCormick choosing London for its listing bucks the Wall Street gravity trendA US spice giant seeking a London listing following its Unilever Foods tie-up runs against the recent trend of companies fleeing the London Stock Exchange for Wall Street's deeper liquidity and hig…The 20% business rates cut for pubs looks generous until you read the funding mechanismGovernment plans to cut business rates by 20% for pubs, clubs and music venues from April address a sector that's lost thousands of sites to rates bills exceeding what many small venues turn over i…Boston Beer's profit slide confirms hard seltzer's hangover is permanentTruly and Twisted Tea can't offset falling core beer volumes, and a second straight quarter of decline puts pressure on management to find the next category before shelf space gets reallocated.China's sportswear boom is Lululemon's problem nowDomestic brands are capturing the running and climbing surge with cheaper price points, squeezing the premium positioning Western activewear brands relied on to justify their China expansion plans.Taco Bell scrambles to contain a Cyclospora outbreakTaco Bell is pulling supply trucks to contain contamination, the latest fast-food chain forced into a costly recall over a parasite linked to fresh produce.Frasers crosses 30% in Hugo Boss and the takeover clock starts tickingMike Ashley's Frasers Group has pushed its Hugo Boss stake past the 30% threshold that triggers a mandatory takeover offer under German securities law, forcing a decision it's been dodging for two …Live shopping's £100k-a-day claims are the exception TikTok wants you to seeOne creator's £100,000 sales day is the headline TikTok Shop's PR team is happy to amplify, because it obscures how few sellers actually clear five figures in a single stream. Live commerce works i…Powerball lands in the UK this weekThe world's largest jackpot game enters a market already crowded with the National Lottery and EuroMillions, betting that headline-grabbing US-sized jackpots pull in players the domestic games can'…Verizon cuts 3,000 jobs and hands stores to franchiseesHanding retail stores to franchise operators is how a telecom admits it doesn't want to own the fixed costs of a physical footprint anymore. The 3,000 job cuts land mostly in corporate-owned retail…Taco Bell pulls lettuce over Cyclospora outbreakHealth authorities have linked the outbreak to Taylor Farms lettuce supplied to Taco Bell locations across several states, forcing the chain to yank the ingredient before the CDC finishes its case …Ocado shares plunge 18% on tech licensing strugglesThe division meant to prove Ocado is a software company rather than just a grocer with robots failed to convince the market again. Licensing revenue from its automated warehouse tech has repeatedly…James Watt wants BrewDog back, and the board's shrug is the real storyWatt's bid to buy back the company he co-founded was met with something close to indifference from BrewDog's current ownership, which tells you how much has changed since he stepped back as CEO. TS…Mike Ashley won't let a good distressed asset go quietlyGatecrashing the Harvey Nichols auction is pure Ashley: he's built Frasers Group's entire strategy on picking up prestige retail names at the point of maximum distress, from House of Fraser to Spor…Shein's Hong Kong IPO is walking into its own growth slowdownTiming a mega-listing right as your growth curve bends is the sort of thing bankers spend all night trying to fix and can't. Shein is pushing ahead with plans for a Hong Kong listing after London a…$9.99 still beats $10 because retailers never stopped testing itCharm pricing surviving decades of behavioural economics research isn't nostalgia, it's because the trick still measurably works at the point of sale. Retailers continue defaulting to $9.99-style p…John Lewis is cutting hundreds of jobs by closing in-store services. The partnership model is getting a harder look than it wants.John Lewis is eliminating hundreds of roles through the closure of in-store services, the latest in a series of structural cuts as the partnership tries to arrest losses that have run for several c…Smucker's $5 billion Twinkie bet has flopped. Consumer nostalgia is not a business model.Smucker's acquisition of Hostess Brands for roughly $5 billion in 2023 is now being studied as a case study in overpaying for brand sentiment. The Twinkie's cultural cachet did not translate into t…Jersey Mike's IPO is Blackstone testing whether the consumer story has enough runway left to sellJersey Mike's, the US sandwich chain backed by Blackstone, has filed for an IPO after reporting 50 percent same-store sales growth over recent years, and the timing is a deliberate read of the mark…Fourth of July cookout costs up 4% overall, hamburger prices up 14% year-on-yearWells Fargo's annual cookout index puts beef inflation at 14 percent versus last July 4, a number that sits awkwardly alongside the Fed's softening jobs data and the narrative that consumer price p…Chanel acquires Charvet, Paris's 190-year-old bespoke shirtmakerChanel has bought Charvet, the Place Vendôme shirtmaker that has dressed heads of state since 1838, in a move that extends its control over French luxury craft supply chains rather than its consume…