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Instead, the Dutch retail services organisation is to concentrate its efforts on Germany and Belgium. Stephen Thomas, Profile's UK sales director, will not be renewing his monthly management contract with Euretco. He said: "They'll be back, and when they do come back they'll be stronger."

There are no firm plans to feature cycling, but CBM Media is "open to ideas." Freeview is the UK set-top box digital TV service being promoted like crazy by the face-mask 'adverts' on BBC TV.

Braking, the Italian aftermarket performance brake parts manufacturer for the sports motorbike world, has launched into the bicycle market. Braking patented the non-circular 'wave' disc idea in 1998.

What, a mainstream British newspaper taking the world's biggest annual sporting event seriously? In Wimbledon week? With Beckham still in the headlines? Yep, believe it. Of course, the special supplement in today's paper was preceded by two articles about 'special supplements' of another kind in The Sunday Times. David Walsh, yet again, raised doubts about the drug-free status of Lance Armstrong and bête noire Paul Kimmage was also given extensive newspaper real estate...

Whilst McDonald's is currently beating off a US lawsuit that claims its fatty foods and supersized products fattens America's children, 175 of America's largest private and public sector employers have launched the Institute on the Costs and Health Effects of Obesity. Fatties lose US corporations more than $12bn a year...