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...But these competitors are still tiny compared with Victoria’s Secret. Savage x Fenty, for example, represents only 4 per cent of the US intimate market, compared with Victoria’s Secret’s 19 per cent....
...Google plans to leave at least one of its London offices — in Belgrave House, Victoria — next year, according to three people familiar with the matter....
...The company will target prime areas, including Mayfair, Victoria and Canary Wharf and favours locations where planning permits are easier to secure....
...And finally To the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, where the tremendous touring Donatello retrospective has arrived in London — the UK’s first show ever devoted to the artist....
...But picture, from Echo Park to Victoria Park, the truest urban villages. How many are car-less? We have, remember, lived through more than one kind of “energy crisis” in recent years....
...LV, aka mutual Liverpool Victoria, has named insurer Bupa’s UK and global markets head David Hynam as chief executive....
...A year ago Victoria’s Secret looked like a lost cause. The lingerie brand, best known for its racy runway shows, was plagued by image problems and sliding sales....
...Victoria’s Secret net sales nearly doubled to $1.6bn in the first quarter of the year compared with $893m during the same period in 2020....
...He works with “virtually every British [luxury] brand”, including Pyo, Stella McCartney and Victoria Beckham....
...Victoria’s Secret has struggled to adapt....
...Meanwhile, debt financing dried up, shares in Blackstone, Apollo, Carlyle and KKR tumbled, pre-crisis deals for Amex’s business travel unit and Victoria’s Secret were called off, and the hit to portfolio...
...L Brands said that it would now seek to separate Victoria’s Secret from Bath and Body Works, the company’s other primary retail chain....
...If anything, it would make a potential sale of Victoria’s Secret, which Mr Wexner is also considering, more palatable to would-be buyers. It will take more than new owners to fix Victoria’s Secret....
...Sycamore will pay $525m to take a 55 per cent stake in Victoria’s Secret, with L Brands, which is disbanding its struggling retail empire, retaining the remainder of the business, in a deal that values Victoria...
...US private equity group Sycamore Partners has agreed to terminate a $525m deal to buy lingerie chain Victoria’s Secret, while Carlyle Group is trying to walk away from buying a stake in the corporate travel...
...This week alone, US private equity group Sycamore Partners terminated a $525m deal to take control of Victoria’s Secret, while car engine components manufacturer Delphi Technologies said it would accept...
...Tens of thousands of retail workers are already being furloughed without pay at Victoria’s Secret owner L Brands, while Macy’s warned its workforce of about 125,000 on Monday that it was unclear when stores...
...The eponymous “Victoria” was originally modelled on an fictional English lady....
...deal (FT) Worldline to buy Ingenico for €7.8bn as sector dealmaking intensifies (FT) + (Lex) Juul investors face writedowns after Altria decision (FT) ‘Angels’ in hell: The culture of misogyny inside Victoria...
...Saudi Arabia loses $2bn of output after attack on oil infrastructure (FT) Ray-Ban billionaire Del Vecchio to lift stake in Mediobanca (FT) South Korea’s biggest hedge fund freezes redemptions (FT) Victoria...
...Victoria Rosamond has rejoined White & Case’s New York office as a partner in its M&A practice. She was previously at Katten Muchin Rosenman....
...Victoria’s Secret beachwear launch has got a less than sunny reception from some on Wall Street....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Victoria Sander as a partner in corporate practice at the law firm’s London office. Sander was previously a partner at Linklaters....
...Stronger consumer spending and confidence failed to perk up sales at Victoria’s Secret during the key holiday shopping season....
...One Conservative MP, Victoria Atkins, deleted her Twitter account, saying she was “fed up with the death threats and the nastiness”....
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