Talbots’ earnings drop
US retailer Talbots Inc. has this week reported that quarterly earnings have dropped as much higher expenses outweighed higher sales. Although the company reported improved fourth-quarter sales during the post-holiday clearance sales, Talbots’ has also issued full-year 2005 forecasts below Wall Street estimates. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Earnings for the quarter ending 29 January…
Boots best site
UK retailer Boots had the most visited health and beauty website in the UK for the month October, according to web-use monitor Hitwise. With 29.1% Boots beat Avon UK(9.3%), Avon Shop UK (2.1%), Virgin Cosmetics (4%) and Lush (1.4%). 1.2% of all e-shopping traffic in the UK consists of online visits to health and beauty…
Debenhams Fears Discounting
Debenhams suppliers fear the imposition of a retrospective discount will be one of the first steps taken by Baroness Retail, which took over the business last week. The retrospective discount, a favourite tactic of recent successful buyers of fashion retailers, is believed by Debenhams suppliers to be on the cards for January. It is understood…
LVMH to double in sales
Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury retailer LVMH, has revealed that he expects the company’s sales and size to double over the next five years. Company profits climbed by 30% last year to EUR497 million (GBP353 million). Arnault added that it would take a generation for Asian sales to catch up in volume to the US.…
London retailers’s slow recovery
Following the devastating bombings last Thursday in London, retail sales had declined much less than expected over the weekend. Although the city’s retailers are still suffering the after-effects, many Londoners were determined to return to their normal routines and headed for the shops. SPSL, the shopping tracking agency, found that trade had improved since the…
Mariah’s makeover
Songstress Mariah Carey has recently made more headlines over her wince-worthy fashion choices than song hits. Thankfully Andre Leon Talley, US Vogue’s editor-at-large, has stepped in to save her from herself and guide her in the fashionable direction. Talley has been seen escorting the diva across Manhattan to a dinner hosted by Karl Lagerfeld and…
London Retailers Feeling The Pinch
Two bank holiday weekends did little to boost UK retail footfall in May, according to the latest figures from SPSL’s Retail Traffic Index. London has also been badly affected by the downturn, the index shows. Figures from the BRC published last month suggested that, until now, retail sales in the capital were stronger than elsewhere…
Lord of the Flies
Alexander McQueen has done it again. He has managed to push the boundaries and find unuaul inspiration in a piece of literature. Who knew that when we were struggling through compulsary Willian Golding’s ‘Lord of the flies’ at school, it would serve as inspiration for a cutting-edge designer? But it did. For his spring/summer 2006…
All about Elle
Only last week Elle Macpherson announced her split from her partner of nine years and the father of her two boys, Arkie Busson, and people are already speculating about her love life. Aside from rumours surrounding her friendship with Irish filmstar Colin Farrell, she has been spotted with actor Al Pacino. According to the New…
IC Companys wins Franchise award
IC Company won the Danish Franchise award 2005 last week. Bianco Shoewear and HTH Køkkener (kitchens) won the award respective last year and the year before. This year IC was nominated together with Deres Design and Bo Concept. The members of the jury were Jørgen Frederiksen, Managing Director and Chairman of the Danish Franchise Federation,…