Many Chinese businesses and factories shut down for three to four weeks to allow millions of workers to return to their hometowns to celebrate the festivities with their families.

Turnarounds aren’t new for Cheryl Bachelder, but Pier 1 brings a whole new set of challenges: from about 1,000 physical stores to an expensive online strategy to a failure to entice a new generation of shoppers.

From peanut butter to baked beans to the once-banned spirit absinthe: This online shopping service has everything Britons need to survive a no-deal Brexit, in four clicks.

Reliance Industries will roll out its online shopping platform to 1.2 million retailers and store-owners in western India, starting on an ambitious plan to take on Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart on its home turf.

Brexit is unlikely to feature in the annals of military history, but Britain is getting a taste of wartime stockpiling again.

FedEx is testing delivery of bulky products, a $9bn market that couriers had left to more traditional trucking companies because large items don’t fit well in their sorting operations.

Trade wars, China’s slowdown, erratic stock markets: The outlook is getting grimmer for an increasing number of companies across the globe.