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Rolex sales are soaring in Singapore, and other Asian cities as the Swiss franc’s value rises rapidly. Staff of Singapore’s highest profile luxury watch chain The Hour Glass told AFP sales of Swiss brands have risen markedly in recent days, especially of…
H&M has extended its global branding collaboration with football star David Beckham, with a whole new menswear collection for Spring 2015. Beckham will choose his favourite menswear pieces from the Modern Essentials collection at H&M, to create ‘Modern…
The Indian business of Van Heusen is planning a network of stores targeting solely women. Van Heusen, owned by Madura Fashion & Lifestyle, also plans to focus on repositioning its essentially denim-based youth fashion range Vdot. Brand head Vinay A Bhopatkar…
This was the tagline of one of the videos published by Swiss luxury watchmaker Roger Dubuis under its innovative #GoodbyeCuckoo; #HelloExtraordinary marketing campaign. At around this time last year, the watch brand unveiled 30 films, each 50 seconds long…
If the endless influx of global retailers is hitting David Jones and Myer where it hurts, it is just the beginning, a retail expert says. Retail Doctor founder and chief executive Brian Walker points to Deloitte’s Global Powers of Retailingreport, which said…
Spencer’s Retail Ltd, a CESC subsidiary, will finalise its e-commerce plan by April. Shashwat Goenka, Sector Head of Spencer’s Retail, told reporters that the brick and mortar stores and the e-commerce prices, however, would be the same. “We would freeze the…
COACH’s debut at London Fashion Fashion week with its menswear 2015-16 Fall Winter Collection signals the aspiration of the brand to a luxury upgrade positioning which was launched when Stuart Vevers (ex LOEWE) was appointed as Creative Director in 2014. The…
Pressure was mounting on the chief executive of Marks & Spencer, Marc Bolland, on Monday night as investors digested the retailer’s decline in sales over the crucial Christmas trading period. One of the City’s most influential fund managers said questions…
Australian footwear brand Emu has launched a global transactional website to serve key markets including the UK and Europe, New Zealand, China, Canada, the US and Japan. Lees ook: Guardian Malaysia plans 30 new stores
Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo came under fire yesterday for buying supplies from Chinese factories accused of putting workers at risk in unsafe conditions, with sewage on the floor, extremely high temperatures and poor ventilation. Lees ook: China’s Alibaba…
British luxury brand Burberry warned on Wednesday that a fall in sales in the key market of Hong Kong in the last quarter of 2014 could impact its full-year margin. Pro-democracy protests began choking parts of the Asia financial center in late September,…
Prada recently opened its third store at The Gardens Mall in Kuala, Lumpur. Designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi, store covers a total area of approximately 390 square metres on a single level and houses the women’s and men’s leather goods, accessories and…
UK luxury footwear brand Church’s will now be available in India, priced at up to Rs. 72,000 (USD1,159.72), following an exclusive distribution tie-up with multi-brand retailer Heel & Buckle. “UK’s iconic luxury footwear brand Church’s is entering into India…
Hermès maintains course in 2014 with a healthy 10 percent increase in its turnover, at constant exchange rates – according to Guillaume de Seynes , managing director manufacturing division & equity investments of the Group of luxury. Interviewed by the German…
American jeweler Tiffany & Co makes its first foray into featuring same-sex couples in its advertising with its new engagement campaign for 2015. A rep for the jeweler didn’t release the guys’ names because despite being extremely attractive, they are not…
COACH will pay Sycamore Partners a hefty USD574 million for Stuart Weitzman — their women’s footwear brand — in a move that is no doubt designed to diversify their sales portfolio considering 55 percent of their USD4.8 million in sales last year came from…
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