News roundup–Royal Mail and CWU reach agreement


Royal Mail and the Communications
Workers Union
have tentatively agreed a deal to end the
pay and modernisation dispute. Postal workers will receive a 6.9
percent pay rise over the next three years; in turn the union
will cooperate with Royal Mail’s modernisation programme, reports
the Guardian. Another clause of the deal is that
the cap on unaddressed mail a postie can deliver-currently set at
three pieces per household-is to be lifted.

We reported yesterday that mutlititle mailer N Brown
Group
launched a new menswear title Williams &
Brown
. It has also unveiled another brand this week,
That’s My Style, aimed at women aged 50 and
older, writes Manchester Evening News.

Victoria Stapleton, the founder of apparel cataloguer
Brora, and Laura Tenison, who founded nursery
and maternity catalogue JoJo Maman Bebe, are
among the women shortlisted for a Veuve Clicquot Business Woman
of the Year Award, reports the London Evening Standard.

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