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...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...(FT) No longer trendy America’s department stores were once world famous....
...These brands specialised in luxury daywear distributed through hundreds of department and speciality stores....
...And the day I signed the lease to my store, I had $40 to my name. [MUSIC PLAYING] So in four years, it jumps from $40 to 20 million in sales to 2019....
...Here’s a Lebara-branded store one shop down from a Lyca-branded store in Whitechapel: Lycamobile has also been in the headlines this month after Buzzfeed News published its latest article in a long-running...
...At some point, short-term purchasing power must be transformed into a more longstanding store of value via the duration mechanism (lending) if it’s to avoid decay....
...“It’s a weak V-shaped recovery. It takes time to win back consumers that turned away once,” said Naoki Fujiwara, fund manager at Shinkin Asset Management....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...E-John v Johnnie John, and its variants, is a powerful name in retailing, writes Kate Burgess....
...You place the button exactly at the waist point, and you get this V-shape at the top and below, and that elongates the torso.”...
...Her striped trench will be on display at the V&A’s The Glamour of Italian Fashion, 1945-2014, from April 5 to July 27....
...For the past four quarters, same-store sales in Coach’s core North American market have risen less than 1 per cent on average....
...Today, the company operates “something between a workshop and a factory” in Athens that employs three to four locals....
...The lack of a convenience store presence visible to the naked eye is also good news in that when new stores open – and there are due to be 100 of them by the year-end – they should also provide a sales boost...
...Royal Mail Group is spending £75m over four years to expand its Parcelforce business as it prepares for privatisation....
...(Financial Times) - The Google v Oracle case could have big implications for the software industry....
...Jacques Vert owns four women’s brands – Planet, Precis, Windsmoor and Jacques Vert – which it sells in 900 mostly UK-based outlets....
...“I thought, ‘Branding will give me four times the money than selling in the bulk market’,” he says. ABC opened 10 tiny Coffee Day Fresh and Ground stores selling coffee for home use....
...Toyota is launching its Entune infotainment system with the new Prius V hybrid car this year....
...After doubling the business in four years, it hopes to have 350 stores, £1bn turnover and 10,000 employees in eight years. Then it will be time to cross the M25 and crack London....
...A crisp, timely description of the fate that lies in store for any organisation that takes its success for granted and loses the ability to adapt to changed circumstances....
...The economic crisis proved the trigger for a renewed burst of reforms under the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then finance minister, Manmohan Singh....
...V&S, the owner of the Absolut brand, recently launched its seventh flavour extension, Absolut Apeach....
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