Co-op Announces Contactless Payment

July 15, 2010

Co-operative supermarket shoppers will get to pay for their groceries using payment cards starting next year. The supermarket chain is calling this contactless payment, which will be similar to the London Underground Oyster card that commuters ...

BT Group Pensioners Seek Court Clarification of Scheme Guarantee

July 14, 2010

BT Group's pension trustees have asked a court to rule on the amount that the pension plan, which is the largest in the UK, and its £9 billion deficit will be taken control of by the government ...

Air France-KLM Agrees to Pay $87 million Price-fixing Fine

July 14, 2010

Air France-KLM is the largest airline company in Europe, but this doesn't make them immune to paying fines for price-fixing. The carrier has just agreed to pay US$87 million in a settlement over civil damages for ...

Car Hire Companies Increase Child Seat Prices

July 13, 2010

According to a report, parents that travel with young children should take their own child seats in order to save money on car rentals, as some car hire companies have raised the price of car seats by ...

Healthy Kiwis enjoy Weight Watchers and McDonalds partnership

July 11, 2010

Consumers can’t get enough of the healthy, Weight Watchers-endorsed meals currently offered at McDonalds in New Zealand, as over 100,000 have been sold since the partnership between the two companies began three months ago. The high sales have exceeded even ...

Royal Bank of Scotland boss to speak at BBA annual conference

July 10, 2010

Royal Bank of Scotland boss said that the nationalised bank is being socially useful at the core of its operations, in a response to Lord Adair Turner's accusations that the financial sector mostly engaged in socially useless enterprise. Stephen Hester, giving ...

BT thwarts strike action by reaching agreement with union

July 10, 2010

BT has reached a 39-month agreement with the Communication Workers Union in an effort to avoid industrial action. UK telecommunications firm BT settled an ongoing dispute with its employees after establishing a pay scheme with the industry union. For months, the ...

Europcar becomes Premium Partner for Air Berlin

July 8, 2010

Europcar, the leading car hire company in Europe, and Air Berlin, the second biggest carrier in Germany, have created a new Premium Partnership in order to give the airline's leisure and business customers quality car hire services. ...

European Union Supports UK Budget Cuts

July 7, 2010

On Tuesday, the executive body for the European Union praised the austerity plans that were announced by the new coalition government last month. The European Commission says that the plans should allow the UK to cut ...

School Rebuilding Project Threatened by Government Cuts

July 6, 2010

The government is scrapping the national school redevelopment scheme, and hundreds of school building projects are being affected. Education Secretary Michael Gove said that 715 of the schools that signed up for the revamp scheme will ...