Starbucks to review UK tax arrangements
Starbucks to review UK tax arrangements – The Guardian dlvr.it/2ZHSQZ — Retail News daily (@RetailNewsdaily) December 2, 2012
Blunders
Retail staff injured in armed robberies and assaults will lose out
Compensation payments to people injured in violent crimes have been slashed or withdrawn completely after the government railroaded through changes to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (Risks 582). The changes took effect on 27 November, scrapping five payment levels.
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A prime-time TV commercial featuring a hoard of rampaging zombies on the loose
XXL’s zombies get the chop from Norwegian TV Watch the video
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This ad is totally indefensible / Belvedere Vodka pulled it fast and issued two apologies
Stupid. There’s really no other way to describe the thinking — or lack thereof — behind Belvedere Vodka’s “rapey” Facebook ad. The ad is totally indefensible. To its credit, Belvedere pulled the ad fast and issued two apologies. The brand
“Advert banned before we even see it, something is fishy here!”
South Africa’s state broadcaster ‘pulled Zuma fish and chips advert’ Watch the banned ad here.
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“HP came in with about 300 people, crawled over everything – They found nothing”
Mike Lynch defends Autonomy accounting methods The founder of enterprise search and knowledge management service company Autonomy is firing back at HP amid allegations that his company used sketchy accounting practices to inflate its value prior to its sale to
“HP came in with about 300 people, crawled over everything – They found nothing” Read More »
Calling cyclists “stupid tw*ts”, to promote road safety calls for an apology and B&Q picks Karmarama
‘An unlikely story – “The work of one rogue creative acting without sanction of the agency” Good news and bad news. Karmarama has apologised for a number of ads created by a member of its staff calling cyclists “stupid tw*ts”,
James Clapper, had confronted Petraeus about his affair with his 40-year-old biographer, Paula Broadwell / Newsweek
The Fall of a General : From all appearances, David Petraeus was in his element. It was the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 7, and the CIA director was the keynote speaker at a high-minded foreign-policy conference in Washington held by
This slip up was deemed inappropriate, offensive and Sears were accused of selling smut
adRants reports .. Seemingly missed by every designer, photographer and project manager whose eyes it had to pass before being placed online, a picture of a model wearing a purple babydoll slip from reseller Fright Depot clearly shows a nipple
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A really bad blunder : The Essex Chronicle used a picture of an innocent man alongside a story about a convicted drug-dealer
The wrong picture was used to illustrate this story in the Essex Chronicle (face obscured) Thousands of copies of the Braintree edition of the Essex Chronicle had to be withdrawn from sale after the paper used a picture of an