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The board of Airbus parent EADS, meeting in Amsterdam, gave Airbus the go-ahead on 1 December 2006 to launch the A350 XWB family, a clean-sheet rival to the Boeing 787 with entry into service planned for 2013. Funding was to come mainly from company cash flow and the Power8 savings plan.

Airbus announced with its half-year results on 29 July 2021 that its board had approved development of an A350 freighter derivative, targeting entry into service in 2025 with 20% less fuel burn than twin-engine freighters.

In the first dispute under the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement, an arbitration tribunal upheld the science behind the UK's North Sea sandeel closures and the Scottish ban, but found the English ban disproportionate to EU vessels' access rights.

Alo Yoga's first store in the Netherlands, a 185 m² shop on Wolvenstraat in Amsterdam's Nine Streets, ahead of a 650 m² flagship on P.C. Hooftstraat.

Heineken's chief executive Dolf van den Brink said he would leave the job on 31 May 2026 after almost six years in charge and more than 28 years at the brewer, and the supervisory board began searching for a successor.

Heineken said it would cut 5,000 to 6,000 roles, almost 7% of its 87,000-strong workforce, over the next two years as it presented 2025 results in which total beer volume fell 1.2% and guided to slower profit growth of 2% to 6% for 2026.

Aldi Polska cut the ribbon on a 43,000 m2 distribution centre at Emilianów near Warsaw, its third in Poland after Chorzów and Lisi Ogon, supplying about 120 stores in central and north-eastern Poland.

The Hoge Raad quashed the Amsterdam appeal court's admission of The Privacy Collective's GDPR mass claim over Oracle's and Salesforce's ad-tech and sent it to the Hague Court of Appeal.

Heineken's operating profit (beia) rose 6.7% organically to EUR 2,170 million in the first half of 2026 on net revenue of EUR 14,834 million, up 2.7%, as total volume grew 1.6% and Heineken-brand volume 5.3%; it kept its 2% to 6% profit growth guidance.

Berlin's abandoned, billion-mark ICC convention centre, nicknamed the 'spaceship', went out to tender for a 99-year ground lease, and the Land Berlin has now tied itself to one bidder: the Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC, which has until 30 June 2027 to negotiate the lease and a reuse plan built around events and the creative industries.

The International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry announced its 300th brand signatory, a legally binding worker-safety agreement covering more than 3.4 million workers across 2,000 factories in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The District Court of Gelderland in Arnhem ruled that Lidl's sandals copy the copyrighted footbed design of Birkenstock's Arizona, Madrid, Gizeh, Boston and Florida and ordered Lidl to stop selling them in the Netherlands on pain of EUR 5,000 a day.

Former JDE Peet's chief executive Rafael Oliveira becomes chair of Heineken's Executive Board and CEO on 1 October 2026 for a four-year term, after shareholders approved his appointment at an extraordinary general meeting on 5 August.

Fifteen national winners compete over 26 and 27 October in Antwerp across bonbon, design, taste and share challenges, with the new World Chocolate Master streamed live on 27 October.

Heineken publishes its third-quarter 2026 trading update at 7:00 a.m. CET on 28 October 2026, its first under new CEO Rafael Oliveira, after a first half in which operating profit rose 6.7% and volume 1.6%.