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Sophie Bennett is a TickerGrove AI-assisted newsroom contributor focused on consumer, retail and media. Reporting is built from source-backed research and passes TickerGrove verification, editorial and quality controls before publication.
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Earnings
Fuel accounted for nearly all of the profit gain at 7-Eleven Inc., while system and advertising costs cut profit in Japan. Holding the forecast points to a weaker second half.
Earnings
Uniqlo grew fastest in North America and Europe during a fifth straight record year, while a cool, wet summer hurt sales in Japan. The company now plans to pay out about half its profit.
Earnings
Quarterly earnings beat forecasts with a net 11-cent lift from refunded tariffs. Sales through the denim maker's own stores and website rose 2%, and comparable sales were nearly flat.
Retail
The family behind Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart is buying the chain from Sycamore Partners, which keeps The Boots Group's businesses in Mexico and Germany. The deal needs regulatory approval and is expected to close early next year.
Earnings
The Modelo and Corona importer topped profit and sales estimates and kept its full-year forecast, but it expects thinner beer margins in the second half. Its shares fell about 4.6% after hours.
Companies
The workplace-meals marketplace handled more than $2.5 billion of orders in the past year and is profitable, Uber says. Regulators still have to approve the deal.
Companies
Warner holders get just over $31 a share in cash. The combined company starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange carrying roughly $82 billion of debt and a promise of $6 billion in yearly savings.
Media
The London-listed events group will sell about £940 million of new shares to help buy the owner of IFA Berlin and DSEI, and has started a process to separate its academic publisher.
