A troubled technology and logistics makeover at the Richemont subsidiary interrupted the Swiss conglomerate’s grand plans to build a single platform for luxury e-commerce, amid growing competition for online sales.
Change is afoot at Net-a-Porter’s in-house media brand, five years after the launch of the magazine.
The e-tailer hopes its new seasonal accelerator programme will help to keep it ahead of the competition at a time when consumers are thirsty for newness.
Net-a-Porter, MatchesFashion and other e-commerce players are courting the 1 percent with private dinners, personal shoppers and couture.
Today’s consumers are demanding faster fulfilment, but next-day and same-day delivery can cost companies dearly and some workers are paying the price.
Growth in childrenswear has overtaken that of both menswear and womenswear.
BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
What does the future hold for Yoox Net-a-Porter? Will the merger succeed? And now that Massenet has exited the business, what will she do next?
The untold story of how Compagnie Financière Richemont agreed to merge Net-a-Porter with Yoox behind the back of Natalie Massenet for a valuation much lower than what many believed the business to be worth.
BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
BoF asked women leaders from across the fashion industry for their advice on how to overcome three key hurdles between high potential women and top jobs.
BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
Tasked by Federico Marchetti to lead Net-a-Porter & Mr Porter as a part of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group, Loehnis joined the business in 2007.
Procter & Gamble raised its annual profit forecast on lower commodity costs and as consumers, particularly in the United States and Europe, kept buying its pricey Tide detergent and Dawn dish soap.
Frédéric Malle announced on Apr. 18 that he will be leaving his brand Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle at the end of June.
The two brothers join older siblings Antoine and Delphine, meaning that 4 out of Arnault’s 5 heirs now serve on the board. Bernard Arnault, age 75, has placed his controlling interest in LVMH in a stock-share partnership aimed at perpetuating family control.
Billionaire Bernard Arnault said he hopes a planned visit to France next month by China’s Xi Jinping will help smooth trade relations between Paris and Beijing.
Alyson Hogg, who founded the luxury tanning brand in 2003, has reacquired it from Crown Laboratories.
Monthly Swiss watch exports suffered their biggest decline since 2020 as demand for premium and luxury timepieces in key markets including China and Hong Kong plunged.
Asos has said it will take “necessary actions” to transform its fortunes after the fast fashion retailer’s first-half losses widened and sales fell by nearly a fifth.
The effort to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd to divest its ownership of the social media platform would quickly become law under a plan outlined Wednesday by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
