UK-based chocolate bars firm The Grown Up Chocolate Company (GUCC) has signed a supply agreement with fine food wholesaler and distributor Hider Foods Imports. As part of the agreement, Hider will list the entire range of chocolate bars, ...
Tags: GUCC, Hider Foods, Food
ECCO's CEO, Dieter Kasprzak, has announced that the company delivered its best ever results in 2013. "We expect 2014 to show increased revenue and profitability" "It's a very pleasing performance," he said. "We have been successful in ...
Tags: Apparel, Ecco, shoe, shoe accessories
Made in France 2014, the only exhibition devoted to high-end apparel and accessories manufacturing, will be showcasing a wealth of French high-end manufacturing expertise, skills, craftsmanship and industrial techniques, and welcoming new ...
Tags: apparel, Accessories, fashion
The CEO of Ecco said the family-owned Danish shoemaker was able to increase operating margins in 2013 despite rapidly growing leather and labor costs and production constraints related to a fire a 2011 fire that destroyed its factory in ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Collaboration between retailers, brands, their manufacturing partners and suppliers is starting to drive a recovery in the UK’s garment making sector. This was the optimistic and overwhelming conclusion of speakers at the recent ASBCI ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Textile
Repeat performer, award-winning Sterling Vineyards, will once again provide the fine wines poured at the Oscars telecast and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Ball. This year, Sterling is joined at the bar by a ...
Tags: wines, Vineyards wines, cocktail
As Milan fashion week gets under way, Greenpeace International revealed that the same hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing of fast fashion are used by ‘exclusive’ luxury brands. In addition, the concentration of ...
Tags: Supply Chains, Apparel
After a continuous decline in 2013, sales of luxury goods have shown no signs of rebounding in China in the beginning of 2014, after a tightened campaign against corruption, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Feb. 12. Many luxury brands ...
Tags: Luxury Goods, Handbags, Jewels
RAND Luxury will host The Luxury Technology Show on March 4 at The Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Brand ambassadors from a wide variety of industries will be on hand to showcase their latest technology. Product categories include but ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The year ends with China on the precipice of big challenges. Growth is widely expected to slow again in 2014, as the country's economy matures and old standbys like exports and infrastructure spending lose some of their punch. Beijing has ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Global Blue, the international retail tourism experts, report that total international tax free spend has surged up 21% to date this year with globe shoppers from South East Asian driving the growth. Thai spend in particular is up a massive ...
Tags: Global Blue, Tourist
Leading international luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo has won an important victory in the battle against counterfeiting. The Southern District Court of New York, where the Florentine company, last January, had filed its civil lawsuit ...
The International University of Monaco (IUM), in the Principality of Monaco, on the French Riviera, has announced a partnership with the Luxury Connect Business School (LCBS) in New Delhi, India. LCBS now offers to its students various ...
It released financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2014 days ago and according to the results, the operating revenue hit USD 322 million, down three percent from a year ago. The gross margin dropped one percentage point ...
Reversing the trend of recent years, the Americas region is the king of the luxury goods spending hill, estimated to grow at four percent in 2013 versus 2012, surpassing the estimated 2.5 percent growth rate for China, as luxury spending in ...
Tags: Luxury Goods, luxury market