Carrefour has decided to end its interest in a possible tie-up with Auchan after the two French retailers held exploratory talks in recent months, daily newspaper Le Figaro reported on Saturday.
The Issa brothers' EG Group has agreed to sell 27 petrol filling stations to Park Garage Group to address the concerns of Britain's competition regulator relating to the brothers' acquisition of British supermarket Asda.
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June 3 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares closed over 1% higher on Thursday, helped by gains in financial and industrial stocks. The CSE All-Share Index ended up 1.07% at 7,516.20, posting gains in six of the last seven sessions. Conglomerates LOLC Holdings and Richard Pieris & Company Plc were the top boosts to the index, rising 4.9% and 7.9%, respectively. Sri Lanka reported 3,306 confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday, taking the total to 192,547, while deaths rose by 39 to 1,566, according to health ministry data here. The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, said bit.ly/3fM7tB1 on Wednesday it had airlifted emergency medical supplies to Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to help curb the COVID-19 pandemic.