双语资讯速览丨博柏利销售增长放缓引发担忧;优步CEO飞赴伦敦应对司机危机
01 博柏利销售增长放缓引发担忧 6park.com
Burberry has reinstated its interim dividend and restarted its share buyback programme after first-half profits beat forecasts, but its shares fell back on concerns over slowing sales growth. 6park.com 在上半年利润超出预期后,博柏利(Burberry)恢复中期股息并重启股票回购计划,但其股价回落,原因是销售增长放缓引发担忧。 6park.comSame-store sales in the Asia-Pacific region were down 5 per cent, having risen 27 per cent in the first quarter. Finance director Julie Brown said the Asian sales slip was a blip caused by the reimposition of travel restrictions in some parts of China and that trading was back at more normal levels in September and October. 6park.com亚太地区的同店销售额下降5%,相比之下第一季度增长了27%。财务总监朱莉•布朗表示,亚洲销售下滑是中国部分地区重新实施旅行限制造成的暂时现象,生意已在9月和10月恢复到更为正常的水平。 6park.comChinese consumers account for about two-fifths of Burberry’s overall revenue. In the past, much of this has come from wealthy tourists holidaying in cities such as New York, London or Paris but travel bans during the pandemic have meant a higher proportion has originated in China itself. 6park.com中国消费者为博柏利贡献约五分之二的总营收。过去,这些销售大部分来自前往纽约、伦敦或巴黎等城市度假的富裕游客,但疫情期间的旅行禁令意味着如今更高比例的销售来自中国国内。 6park.com——本文2021年11月10日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为 Burberry reinstates dividend but growth falters
02 优步CEO飞赴伦敦应对司机危机 6park.com
Uber’s chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi flew into London for 24 hours earlier this week to tackle the company’s driver crisis, as it faces a shortage of 20,000 drivers ahead of the peak Christmas season. 6park.com 优步首席执行官达拉•科斯罗萨西本周早些时候飞往伦敦,在那里停留24小时,以解决该公司的司机危机。该公司在圣诞节旺季之前面临2万名司机短缺的问题。 6park.comOn Thursday, Uber said it would raise driver pay in London by 10 per cent to try to tempt drivers on to its app. Last month, it said it would hand out bonuses of £500 for drivers who refer friends on to its platform. 6park.com周四,优步表示,将为伦敦的司机加薪10%,以吸引司机使用其应用。上月,该公司表示,将向在其平台上介绍朋友的司机发放500英镑奖金。 6park.comKhosrowshahi told the Financial Times it was not clear why Uber was suffering a shortage of drivers, which has hit some users with long wait times or higher prices. But he said the shortage was “not just a London issue, but a nationwide issue” and that it was a priority for him to solve. 6park.com科斯罗萨西告诉英国《金融时报》,目前尚不清楚优步司机短缺的原因。司机短缺导致一些用户等待时间过长或价格上涨。但他表示,短缺“不只是伦敦的问题,而是全国的问题”,这是他需要优先解决的问题。 6park.com——本文2021年11月12日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为 Uber CEO flies to London to deal with driver crisis
03 莫德纳否认与美国国立卫生研究院共享专利 6park.com
A rift between Moderna and the US government deepened on Thursday after the biotech group dismissed claims by the National Institutes of Health that three of its scientists should be recognised as co-inventors of a patent underpinning the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. 6park.com 周四,莫德纳和美国政府的的分歧进一步加深。此前,美国国立卫生研究院称其三名科学家应被承认为莫德纳新冠疫苗专利的共同发明人,但遭到这家生物科技集团的驳斥。 6park.comMore than any other vaccine maker, Moderna has worked in lockstep with the US government to develop its jab, receiving about $2.5bn of grants and orders while also collaborating on clinical trials. 6park.com与其他任何疫苗制造商相比,莫德纳与美国政府密切合作开发疫苗,获得了约25亿美元的拨款和订单,同时还在临床试验方面进行合作。 6park.comBut on Thursday, Moderna escalated the dispute by issuing a public statement insisting it did “not agree” that the trio “co-invented claims to the mRNA (modified nucleotide) sequence of our Covid-19 vaccine”. 6park.com但是在周四,莫德纳发布了一份公开声明,坚称它“不认为”这三人“共同发明了我们新冠疫苗的mRNA(修改核苷酸)序列”,从而使争端升级。 6park.comIt threatened to add fuel to a row over the intellectual property rights protecting vaccines that are generating tens of billions of dollars in annual sales. 6park.com此举有可能为保护年销售额达数百亿美元的疫苗的知识产权纠纷火上加油。 6park.com——本文2021年11月12日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为 Moderna rejects claim US government co-invented crucial Covid jab technology
04 欧洲商学院联手提供免费气候培训 6park.com
Eight of Europe’s leading business schools are putting aside their normal fierce rivalries to create an alliance on training, research and operations to tackle climate change. 6park.com 欧洲8所顶尖商学院正搁置通常的激烈竞争,在培训、研究和运营方面建立联盟,以应对气候变化。 6park.comBusiness Schools for Climate Leadership (BS4CL) is launching at COP26 in Glasgow a toolkit of webinars and resources prepared by their professors, as the first of a series of measures targeting their collective 400,000 alumni across 80 countries. 6park.com气候领导力商学院将在格拉斯哥举行的COP26大会上推出由其教授准备的网络研讨会和资源工具包,作为针对其在80个国家的40万校友的一系列措施中的第一个。 6park.comThe training, designed to better equip current and future executives and entrepreneurs, will be made available for free for all, in sharp contrast to the substantial fees the schools charge for most of their qualifications and executive education programmes. 6park.com这些培训旨在为当前和未来的高管和企业家提供更好的装备,将免费向所有人提供,这与这些商学院对其大多数资格和高管教育课程收取的高额费用形成鲜明对比。 6park.comThe BS4CL group aims to foster greater future joint academic research on climate change, strengthen teaching and improve outreach between staff, former and current students. 6park.com气候领导力商学院的目的是促进未来更多关于气候变化的联合学术研究,加强教学,改善教职员工、毕业校友和在校生之间的联系。 6park.com——本文2021年11月12日发布于FT中文网,英文原题为 European business schools join forces to offer free climate training
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