HONG KONG (Reuters) -Banks in Hong Kong including HSBC Holdings Plc and UBS Group AG are taking steps to reduce the number of people at the workplace after having operated at near full capacity for the past few months, as the city faces a spike in COVID-19 cases.

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Banks in Hong Kong are taking steps to lower the number of people at the workplace after operating at near full capacity for the past few months, as the city tightens curbs due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.

British food-to-go retailer Greggs said its retail and property director Roisin Currie would succeed Roger Whiteside as chief executive in May, as it reported a 0.8% rise in like-for-like sales for its fourth quarter compared to two years ago.

TOKYO (Reuters) -The second-largest investor in Japan's Toshiba Corp on Thursday called for an extraordinary general meeting, seeking to force the company to win two-thirds support for a three-way breakup plan that has angered some major overseas shareholders.

Higher demand from abroad drove a bigger-than-expected rebound in German industrial orders in November, data showed on Thursday, in rare good news for manufacturers suffering from supply bottlenecks and labour shortages in Europe's largest economy.

UBS Group will split its 2,500 Hong Kong workforce into two groups with each returning to the workplace on alternate weeks, as the city tightens curbs amid a spike in COVID-19 cases, according to an internal memo to staff seen by Reuters.