African Designer Platform The Folklore Raises $3.4 Million
The capital injection will aid the company’s pivot from being an e-commerce site to being a business-to-business venture helping emerging brands enter US retailers.
Patrick Pruniaux, CEO of Swiss watch brands Ulysse Nardin and Girard Perregaux, said the economic fallout of Covid-19 will have a knock-on effect on the industry over the next several years.
Bulgari organised the event, Geneva Watch Days, after the coronavirus outbreak forced the cancellation of other industry gatherings. Eight brands have signed on so far.
Russia's lurch into recession has hit many tourism and luxury goods companies hard, forcing them to cut prices — and in turn costs — in an attempt to limit the damage.
The Savigny Luxury Index fell a further 3.8 percent this month. The outlook for the luxury goods sector darkened as disappointing results from industry leader LVMH showed how the strong euro and political protests in Hong Kong were curbing spending and hitting profits.
The Savigny Luxury Index fell a further 3.8 percent this month. The outlook for the luxury goods sector darkened as disappointing results from industry leader LVMH showed how the strong euro and political protests in Hong Kong were curbing spending and hitting profits.
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The capital injection will aid the company’s pivot from being an e-commerce site to being a business-to-business venture helping emerging brands enter US retailers.
The German sportswear company now expects to generate operating profit of around €700 million ($743 million), an increase from the previous target of €500 million.
Amid a luxury slowdown, strong performance by LVMH’s perfumes and cosmetics and selective retailing divisions show a healthy appetite for beauty.
The company, which named chief brand officer Ije Nwokorie as its next CEO, said it was anticipating a double-digit percentage decline in US wholesale revenues, which would dent overall profits.
Rising prices of personal care products could quash Americans’ habit of buying big-brand-name items for their household pantries, posing a threat to Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s biggest makers of packaged goods.
The merger arbitrage investor community turned increasingly bearish on the deal last week, as they interpreted some comments from FTC officials at a conference as negative for the deal.
The value of retail purchases, unadjusted for inflation, increased 0.7 percent from February, Commerce Department data showed Monday.
The merger, which would bring top luxury labels such as Tapestry’s Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and Capri’s Jimmy Choo and Versace under one roof, still awaits approval from the United States.