Text size Arbor Investments focuses on food-and-beverage investments. Lacheev/Dreamstime Arbor Investments needed only 87 days to raise its fifth fund, collecting $1.5 billion in the latest bit of evidence that life goes on for private equity despite the pandemic. The pool is roughly double the $765 million secured by Arbor’s […]

Image source: The Motley Fool. Pearson PLC (NYSE:PSO)Q3 2020 Earnings CallOct 14, 2020, 3:30 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Hello and welcome to the Pearson Q3 Trading Update Analysts Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode and afterwards there’ll be a question-and-answer session. […]

United Airlines Holdings Inc. UAL 0.99% said it is positioning itself to ride out a long downturn in air travel as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. It was a brutal summer for U.S. airlines. Rising infection rates triggered new travel restrictions across the country, keeping passengers at home. United […]

The Government has introduced a “rule of three” tiered system in order to simplify local lockdowns in coronavirus hotspots. To “simplify” the rules, Boris Johnson has ushered in a new model of “Local Covid Alert Levels” in England which will work as a traffic light system. Under the system there will be three tiers – […]

As part of a complete overhaul, Crabtree & Evelyn is looking to reach out towards a whole new … [+] customer base. (Courtesy of Crabtree & Evelyn) It’s not unusual for a company to make some changes at some point in its existence. An update to a catalogue, maybe a […]

An overwhelming majority of US and Canadian travelers (99 percent) are eager to travel again, with 70 percent stating that they plan to take a holiday in 2021, according to a Travel Leaders Group survey of nearly 3,000 frequent travelers. The survey was conducted in September in conjunction with the […]

lake district Half-term holidays hang in the balance with the Prime Minister to consider a “circuit breaker” lockdown if his three-tier system fails to slow the spread of the virus.  Pubs, restaurants and other businesses could be forced to close under such measures with a decision to be made towards […]

“Every time I talk about it, I just cry,” she said. Vaʻa left the U.S. territory in the Pacific in February with her husband for medical treatment. They planned to fly home in March from San Francisco but decided to postpone after hearing a security worker at the airport had […]

Pembroke Pines, Fla. — With Election Day just three weeks away, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden concentrated Tuesday on battleground states both see as critical to clinching an Electoral College victory, tailoring their travel to best motivate voters who could cast potentially decisive ballots. Biden was in Florida […]

If you’re a frequent flyer like I am, then you know that the worst part about traveling is dealing with the airport. Bumper-to-bumper traffic, long lines, extra baggage fees, delayed flights — trying to survive the airport can take the joy out of traveling. If you add a global pandemic […]

Singapore Airlines is holding a ‘dining event’ later this month. Above, one of its planes lifts off in October 2019. Photo: arnd wiegmann/Reuters Oct. 13, 2020 11:48 am ET Nothing brings to mind pleasure quite like the memory of bumping elbows with strangers while trying to carve up “chicken or […]

“We are today simplifying, standardising and in some places toughening local rules in England by introducing three levels of Covid alert,” he told the Downing Street briefing. He assured: “Nowhere will be shut down indefinitely.” And he added “no one affected by this will be left to fend for themselves”, […]

Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL -3.28% offered cautious optimism that demand for travel is starting to return but said its losses were mounting, as the coronavirus pandemic looks likely to continue weighing on travel for years. “The virus has had a much broader impact over the course of the year […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have arrested several political activists who planned to camp out at the site of a rally scheduled for Wednesday in Bangkok that is along the route the country’s king is expected to travel for an unrelated royal ceremony. The arrests Tuesday came after police […]