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...Ervér said his appointment was a matter for the board but that he was confident “that we have a very good direction for where we’re heading” and argued H&M’s strength was its “core business model”....
...Vandevelde, 73, is presently a director at the company and will replace chief executive Fabien Simon at the start of April on an interim basis and lead a search for a new CEO....
...H&M has appointed Daniel Ervér as new chief executive of the group, succeeding Helena Helmersson. Ervér has been with H&M for 18 years, most recently as the head of the H&M brand....
...H&M’s operating margin was 3.9 per cent in the first quarter, more than double what it was a year earlier....
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...Daniel is a competent, experienced and respected leader and has the qualities needed to continue to develop the H&M group,” said Karl-Johan Persson, H&M’s chair and a former chief executive....
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...But the latest string of lawsuits concerning pirated products have been from a list of less obvious companies, including fast fashion groups Uniqlo and H&M....
...H&M blamed unusually hot weather in September for poor sales as the Swedish fast-fashion retailer reported a big increase in profits....
...Todd H Baker is a senior fellow at Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School Loan accounting in a bank should be straightforward, delivering...
...Their low key M&A strategy also helps. Acquisitions, if they happen at all, are of the small, bolt-on variety....
...H&M, which trades on a forward price earnings multiple of 15.9 times compared to Inditex on 22.1 times, is slower than rivals to respond to trends....
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...Bickerstaffe joined M&S as a non-executive director in 2018 and moved into an executive role in 2020 before becoming co-chief operating officer in 2021. She is the first female boss in M&S’s history....
...M&S and John Lewis, they will have to run faster.” M&S cannot afford distractions....
...Over the same period shares in fast fashion rival H&M, which previously reported a drop in December and January sales, are up less than 6 per cent....
...M&S struck a deal to buy half of Ocado Retail, the online supermarket, in 2019 as it sought to sell more food online....
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...Corporate updates: Investors will be watching Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M’s quarterly results for signs it is on track to hit its target operating margin of 10 per cent, up from 6.2 per cent in 2023...
...But their reaction on Wednesday to the Fed’s announcement was far from disappointment, with a sharp rise in equities feeding a rally that has added 27 per cent to the S&P 500 since October....
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