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The Year Ahead: Keep Your Suppliers Close

7 December 2020 • By BoF Team and McKinsey & Company

The Year Ahead: Keep Your Suppliers Close

To mitigate future ruptures, fashion players must move away from transactional relationships with suppliers in favour of deeper partnerships that bring greater agility and accountability.

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Asia’s Recovery Roadmap for Luxury

15 June 2020 • By Zoe Suen

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Asia’s Recovery Roadmap for Luxury

As demand in western markets lags behind, Asian shoppers hold more power than ever over luxury brands' bottom lines. From China to Japan and Singapore to South Korea, here’s where demand is roaring — and where it’s reeling.

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Luxury’s Future Depends on China’s Recovery. Will it Come Fast Enough?

21 April 2020 • By Zoe Suen

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Luxury’s Future Depends on China’s Recovery. Will it Come Fast Enough?

China’s unprecedented GDP contraction suggests that a global recovery could be more prolonged and painful than previously anticipated. Like the economy they rely upon, most luxury brands are now in uncharted waters.

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HSBC Takes Hits as Brexit Britain's Consumer Casualty List Grows

26 May 2019 • By Bloomberg

26 May 2019 • By Bloomberg

HSBC is hardly the only lender taking a hit, but it’s one of the few to disclose some of its losses on UK retailers, including Topshop owner Arcadia Group.

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HSBC Takes Hits as Brexit Britain's Consumer Casualty List Grows

HSBC is hardly the only lender taking a hit, but it’s one of the few to disclose some of its losses on UK retailers, including Topshop owner Arcadia Group.

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Chinese Luxury Shoppers to Return to Paris

13 March 2019 • By Sam Gaskin and Zoe Suen

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Chinese Luxury Shoppers to Return to Paris

As "gilets jaunes" protests wane and the yuan strengthens, the French capital looks set to regain its place as China’s favourite luxury shopping haven. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.