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...Luxury Australian marque Aesop was sold to L’Oréal for $2.5bn in April and last month Natura agreed to sell The Body Shop to private equity firm Aurelius for a fraction of the price it paid in 2017, after...
...But the cosmetic conglomerate’s attempts to revive the fading marques faltered....
...Modena will doubtless be bracing itself for a fresh wave of touristic interest following the release this Christmas of Michael Mann’s Ferrari, a smartly cast (Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz) and typically stylish...
...So far, the family fight does not appear to have affected performance at a marque renowned for its solidity. Full-year results for Banco Safra show it passed 4mn customers in 2022....
...BYD's European boss Michael Shu previously told the Financial Times the marque intends to be in the top three brands by the end of the decade, and number one “if possible”....
...They had gathered to celebrate the launch of a new luxury goods marque, S by Salanitro, which was presenting its first objets de luxe, alongside works by Pablo Picasso and Pierre Soulages....
...McLaren chief executive Michael Leiters, who joined from Ferrari last year, told the Financial Times last month that the planned recapitalisation would also lead to “simpler decision making” at the top of...
...Deadpool star Reynolds will invest alongside actor Michael B Jordan and Rob McElhenney, one of the co-writers behind the sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia....
...A premium cosmetics marque originally from Australia that Natura bought a decade ago, Aesop is an exception to the emphasis away from expansion....
...That nod to the past, however, was gratifying for another enthusiast in Nottingham, Michael O’Reilly, chair of the annual Raleigh Chopper Show, which celebrates a famous type of children’s bike....
...Could it beat the record set by the sale of one of Michael Jordan’s jerseys for $10.1m last September?...
...“I was no longer Michael Dezer’s son; I was Gil Dezer.”...
...Things look brighter for Aston Martin Lagonda, manufacturer of the British supercar marque favoured by fictional spy James Bond....
...to win races and new fans, as well as boost the main marque....
...Pedro Marques, a socialist MEP from Portugal, said China had been guilty of an “attack against European democracy”, declaring: “We will not tolerate it.”...
...Has Jaguar’s move has set the precedent for luxury marques?...
...With just four made, the 330 LMB is almost 10 times rarer than the marque’s 250 GTO, examples of which have fetched close to $50m at auction....
...After seven months in lockdown, Michele Marques received some unwelcome news when she returned to work: while she was away the prices of almost all the products she uses as a hairdresser had soared....
...Premium marques Porsche and Audi have found a generation of new fans in China’s upper middle class, but the core VW brand has suffered a more than 400,000-unit decline in sales....
...It is those simple and deeply entrenched desires that define the growth of the industry we have given the mantle “beyond bespoke”: the specialist, guarded ateliers of grand marques that will create anything...
...(Michael Stott) Tips from Tamami Nikkei’s Tamami Shimizuishi helps you stay up to date on stories you may have missed from the eastern hemisphere....
...It has plans to dispose of this pacy, fuel-glugging luxury marque. Lex pondered this and asked what VW’s more mainstream luxury sports make, Porsche, might fetch....
...“We need to be more sustainable, and consider [attracting] more prosperous visitors in future,” says Rita Marques, Portugal’s tourism minister....
...Automotive companies — even premium marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz-owner Daimler — measure their sales in millions. JLR last year sold just 500,000 cars....
...Mr de Meo oversaw a turnround at Seat from the poor relation in VW’s stable of brands to a profit centre and one of its fastest-growing marques, with earnings in 2018 rising a quarter to €286m....
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