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.