The installed base of off-highway vehicle telematics systems to reach 16.1 million units worldwide by 2028
Berg Insight estimates that the global installed base of active off-highway vehicle telematics systems reached 8.8 million units in 2023. This includes connected units deployed on various off-highway vehicles across the construction, mining, agriculture and forestry sectors. The construction sector accounts
Homebase lives on as CDS revives DIY chain within newly branded the range stores
Homebase is set to return in a slimmed-down format after the DIY chain’s collapse last month, with its new owner CDS confirming plans to reopen 70 former stores under the Range Superstores banner. Each outlet will preserve the Homebase name in
UK Christmas shopping rebounds with higher spending on high street and online
British consumers are opening their wallets more freely in the final run-up to Christmas, with retailers reporting a 2.3 per cent year-on-year rise in spending for the seven weeks to 20 December, according to figures from Visa. Online sales led the
London’s black cabs on the brink: why driver numbers are plummeting and what’s at stake
London’s iconic black cabs could all but vanish by 2040, warn long-serving cabbies who have seen their ranks thin by a third in the past decade. At the heart of the crisis are mounting pressures to switch to electric vehicles, an
BMW admits ‘irregularities’ with 100 Russian car sales despite sanctions
BMW has acknowledged that more than 100 of its high-end vehicles were sold to Russian customers, breaching international sanctions imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. The German carmaker attributed the sales to a handful of rogue employees at its Hanover