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...As a result, the planning, even on a smaller domestic roadshow, often ended up being done by specialist event management groups....
...For FY21, we assume very little excess inventory is carried forward to spring/summer 2021; hence the FY21E gross margin is in line with FY19 levels....
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
...Turnover rents in the specialist portfolio aren’t coming back to pre-COVID-19 levels soon....
...AW2020 was an iteration on her greatest hits — as was literally the case with several coats, which were repurposed from unsold inventory....
...My suppliers haven’t returned to their previous production levels, but we have orders and inventory from late last year so we’ve still got something to do.”...
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...We believe the group’s specialist focus leaves it well-positioned to manage disruptions and rebase for FY21 once sites reopen....
...There are brands and materials specialists really investigating these options.” And what about artificially grown fur? Is it a reality?...
...Because a large number of pieces were incomplete, she believes it is most likely to have been the inventory of a Cheapside goldsmith, who must have died before he could return to retrieve it....
...One inevitable result of all this uncertainty is that in the rare instances where a bronze has an impeccable provenance – King Louis XIV of France had inventory numbers incised into his, and since the inventories...
...Steele says museums have been forced to think increasingly creatively about where they source their inventory....
...In the 1990s recession we did not have a V-shaped recovery, it was a W. But if you thought it was a V and invested at that point, you slid down again....
...Among a number of specialist manufacturers were the Onondaga Metal Shops of Syracuse, New York....
...“In fact there’s an awful lot of concept-driven imagery in the V&A’s work....
...After the market closed property company Regis Group said it was no longer interested in bidding for Grainger....
...“Renaissance pieces are worth four or more times the prices currently being achieved,” says Marcus Radecke, a specialist in Christie’s furniture department....
...This could create excess capacity at the top end of the market, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, the commercial property specialist....
...says Pawan Maini, transport specialist at Halcrow, a UK engineering company that advises ?on roads and ports across India....
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