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Britain’s Burberry is set to lose its long-serving Chief Marketing Officer, Sarah Manley, who joined the luxury brand back in 2001, just one month after Christopher Bailey’s entrance into the top spot. Coinciding with Bailey’s last runway show for Burberry…
Fashion company Burberry has appointed Riccardo Tisci chief creative officer, effective from March 12. With expertise across womenswear, menswear, leather goods and accessories, Tisci joins Burberry from Givenchy, where he was creative director from 2005 to…
Christopher Bailey has marked the end of his tenure at Burberry with a final, rainbow-themed collection unveiled at London Fashion Week over the weekend. Bailey first joined Burberry in 2001 and has since been a driving force behind the brand’s revitalisation…
To celebrate Lunar New Year and the arrival of the Year of the Dog, luxury travel retailer DFS Group will offer special promotions and interactive activities at certain T Galleria and DFS stores worldwide next month. There will also be exclusive offers from…
Japanese used-clothing market 2nd Street USA has set up shop in the US. A subsidiary of Tokyo-based GEO Holdings, 2nd Street USA has opened on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Selling and buying goods, it offers men’s and women’s clothing as well as…
Burberry sales in Asia rose “by the mid single digits” in the three months to year end, as the company reported a modest 2 per cent same-store improvement gobally. Asia Pacific was the strongest performing market for the UK-headquartered luxury retailer, with…
UK luxury brand Burberry today reported a 2% drop in retail revenue for the Christmas quarter after sales in Europe slipped against a year ago when a fall in the pound had helped its home market. Chief executive Marco Gobbetti set out a plan in November to…
Amazon has been struggling to recruit luxury brands to sell their good on its platform, but there is one way that it could make its marketplace more of a destination for shoppers looking for certain tiers of luxury products. Amazon could launch vertically…
Burberry held a special event with British illustrator and artist Danny Sangra from 28 to 29 November 2017 to celebrate the new Doodle collection in Cheongdam flagship store, Seoul. ‘Doodle’ means ‘playful graffiti’. The Doodle Collection is a playful…
Burberry Japan will shutter its entire beauty retail network by 2018, comprised of Burberry Beauty and Burberry Beauty Box stores. Following the closing of the Yokohama store in October 2017, Burberry Beauty before December 31 will have finalised mass store…
Trumpeting solid growth in China sales in the first half year, Burberry has revealed plans to head more upmarket and cull its store network. Burberry marketing, retailing and communication will be refocused to meet the changing demands of today’s luxury…
A “steady if cautious” Hong Kong retail recovery is clearly underway, according to a report from Savills released today. “The retail sector is slowly coming to life after four years of painful adjustment which has seen the emergence of a ‘tenant’s market’, a…
International sunglasses retailer Sunglass Hut opened a new store in Hangzhou’s Intime Wulin store, which is the brand’s third store in the city following the ones in Hangzhou Kerry Centre and Hangzhou Bailian Outlets. Sunglass Hut has reached cooperation…
Britain’s Burberry reported an increase in sales in the three months ending June, on the back of double-digit percentage sales growth China and positive demand APAC-wide. Total retail sales generated £478m in the three-month period, the London-based brand…
Burberry quarterly sales have jumped by a solid 5 per cent, largely buoyed by a doubling of turnover in China. Greater China is a key market for Burberry, accounting for almost a quarter of total sales. A social media campaign – including activity by Beijing…
Longchamp and Burberry have arrange shops on WeChat, China’s prime messenger app. In addition to chatting with buddies and idly thumbing via their social feeds, now you can purchase luxurious baggage off China’s largest social app, WeChat. The nation’s…
