Much as one admires the cheek of documentarist Morgan Spurlock, it seems doubtful if he will again make anything as pertinent as Super Size Me ... more
Toyota says it expects operating profit this financial year to fall 35 percent to 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) after Japan's biggest earthquake on record severely disrupted car production and slashed sales... more
Corporate travel firm Hogg Robinson Group posts a 16% rise in full-year underlying pretax profit, beating expectations, as UK businesses spend more money on client travel... more
Toyota posts a 52% fall in quarterly profit, giving no annual forecasts, as it struggles to measure the scope of the disruption to production after the Japanese earthquakes... more
BMW's profits for the first quarter of the year came in stronger than expected thanks to continued strong demand for luxury cars in China and a rebound in sales in the United States... more
Advertising and marketing: The stereotype about people in creative industries is that they are fickle and flighty - but businesses are built on strong relationships... more
Superyachts, celebrities, oligarchs and private islands: this isn’t Monte Carlo, it’s Montenegro’s Kotor Bay. Andy Barker places his bet on the new Mediterranean hotspot... more
What lay behind the Chancellor’s outburst that the “forces of hell” were unleashed against him by Gordon Brown after he had the nerve to predict the recession would be the worst for 60 years?... more
Leading shares posted their fifth consecutive day of gains in another thin trading session as City investors tackled a clutch of results from blue-chip companies
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Volkswagen does not plan to purchase assets from its majority shareholder Porsche to help fund the latter's intended acquisition of a 75% stake in Europe's largest carmaker... more
Engineering: The German government’s “scrapping bonus” where people are offered 2500 euros (£2231.9) to junk cars nine years old or more if they buy a new vehicle, seems to be working... more
Engineering: A German court may put the country back on a collision course with the EU after refusing to dismantle protectionist rules shielding Volkswagen from takeovers... more
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