Chain Reaction Podcast News Round Up 29th October
All things impacting global supply chains this week.
- Inflation, one, two, three Prime Ministers in three months, big ships in Boston, Putin pushes the West faster to ditch oil and gas, Unilever raise prices, rail strikes and dock strikes.
- Japan’s driverless vehicles approved
- Tesco’s retail graduate scheme – Find out more about Tesco's Retail Graduate Programme and apply at https://lnkd.in/g4dVRem
- ASCM event explaining SCOR- Register today! https://bit.ly/3TWuiDc
- Kaiser aluminium cost hit as suppliers disruption bites
- SSAB shuts down Finish blast furnaces 6-8 weeks because of lower demand and over capacity in the industry
- Boston port welcomes the biggest container ship to dock at the port
- Contingency planning and European Gas Supply
- LNG prices fall
- Elon Musk finally takes over Twitter with a handle Chief Twit
- Truckers going green in California
- Apple decarbonising its supply chain
- Centrica reopens a gas storage facility in UK
- EU gas storage at 95 per cent. Most of Europe has three months or more in sore. The UK has just two weeks.
- Interest rates expected to rise in the UK next week as the Bank of England applies inflationary control
- Amazon share price falls as seasonal sales fail to meet market expectations
- Other Big Tech stocks suffer too
- Unilever volumes fall and prices rise by 12.5% blaming cost pressures
- Retail vacancy rates are cause for concern
- Halloween a retail opportunity
- News on two upcoming special editions coming up
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