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...Inditex closed its 84 stores in Ukraine — which included the Zara, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti and Bershka brands — on February 24, 2022, the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion....
...The retailer, which also owns Pull & Bear and Massimo Dutti, is shutting smaller outlets but upgrading and expanding flagship locations. It opened its largest-ever Zara store last year in Rotterdam....
...The company, whose brands include Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, has been gradually raising prices while shifting its emphasis to more stylish designs in its long-running battle with H&M....
...But whether it is enough to pull Gucci, and Kering, out of the doldrums remains to be seen....
...The group, which also owns the brands Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, described sales for the first nine months of its financial year as “very satisfactory”, and said it expected its profit margin to gain...
...Its total number of shops globally stood at 5,745 at the end of July, down from 6,370 a year ago, with the cut in numbers spread across Zara and all its other brands: Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka,...
...One of the most addictive examples of the genre is Man vs Wild, the Channel 4 programme in which Bear Grylls, an Eton-educated ex-SAS officer, strands himself in various remote locations and then attempts...
...& Bear, Bershka and Stradivarius....
...But bears worry that Kering’s relative underperformance is not wholly explained by its Chinese exposure....
...Inditex whose more than 6,600 outlets include the Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear and Stradivarius brands, has rebounded from the pandemic, particularly by stepping up its online sales, which are closely integrated...
...A striking figure, who bears a strong resemblance to singer Nick Cave with his lean 6ft 7in frame and long slicked back hair, Schüler was nevertheless not a shoo-in to lead the new Virgin Media O2....
...Can the French bank pull it off? Europeans, generally, have so far been consigned to the mid-ranks in the business of corporate banking for hedge funds....
...Outdoor-focused companies will bear the brunt and are already scrambling to manage costs and shore up their balance sheet....
...SAS fly to Lulea via Stockholm....
...This success comes at least in part because Inditex — which has eight brands including Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho and Uterqüe — has been a pioneer of the “fast fashion” model....
...The system, already up and running at Zara, will be fully deployed this year at Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear and Uterqüe, before completion group-wide by 2020, according to Inditex....
...Overall, Inditex, which also owns retail chains Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, reported a 7 per cent rise in full-year net profits to €3.37bn....
...Safer to rely on the European Central Bank and Banco de España. Safer, too, to nip in the bud any run on deposits....
...“The US will continue to bring the full measure of American economic and diplomatic power to bear until democracy is restored in Venezuela,” Mr Pence said in a speech to Venezuelan émigrés in Miami....
...Inditex, which owns retail chains such as Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, said sales growth had continued apace in the new financial year, with store sales rising 13 per cent between February 1 and...
...While the global pharma industry bears some responsibility for the current crisis — most companies cut back hard on antibiotic development because they foresaw a poor potential return on these new drugs...
...Inditex, which also owns fashion chains such as Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Pull & Bear, said trading in the second quarter had slowed down marginally, with sales in constant currency terms growing 15 per...
...His mother, a communist turned wartime copywriter, became a single parent when his father ran off to Australia, later to become a founding member of the SAS....
...At the investor day, Prudential said it would pull back from UK annuities business because of the added costs of doing it under Solvency II....
...José García Cantera, Santander’s chief financial officer, added that the banks that would take the biggest hit to their profits if rates were cut again were those least able to bear it....
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