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...begun to see a new shopping feature within the TikTok app called “Trendy Beat”, a section offering items that have proven popular on videos, such as tools to extract ear wax or brush off pet hair from clothing...
...and the Central African Republic....
...The FTC’s move imperils efforts to build a US challenger seeking to shore up the gap with European conglomerates LVMH and Kering, which have grown to dominate sales of luxury handbags, shoes and clothing...
...“The People’s Republic of China represents the most critical threat [among cyber risks],” General Timothy Haugh, head of US cyber command, told the Vanderbilt event....
...The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Apple of using illegally exported minerals from the war-torn east of the country, challenging the iPhone maker’s assertions that it carefully verifies the origins...
...Clothing sales dropped 1.7 per cent....
...Sales of Nike and Adidas clothing have yet to return to their 2021 peak. A recent McKinsey report showed a growing preference among Chinese consumers for local brands....
...Shimano has factories in Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, China and the Czech Republic....
...The group’s bumper profits last year compare with $700mn of net income for 2022 and $1.1bn in 2021....
...Julie Puello, 30, a self-described Democrat who moved to New York five years ago from the Dominican Republic, also had a visible distaste for Trump’s combative personality....
...The last significant US bank to fail was First Republic, which was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in early May....
...Analysts say the Central African Republic probably lost its Agoa status because of its ties to the Wagner paramilitary group, designated a transnational criminal organisation by the US treasury and accused...
...In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, ice cream vans also brought cold treats to labourers this summer, it added....
...Temu sells ultra-low-price clothing and knick-knacks mostly made in China. It has exploded in popularity since its debut last September....
...It had something to say about the demand among different income groups: Our mid- and higher-income members continued to increase both spend and trips [in the third quarter but] waning government aid has...
...Gap Inc is currently in crisis. Its brands — Old Navy, Gap, Athleta and Banana Republic — face weak or falling sales and the business is lossmaking....
...The retailer, which also owns the Banana Republic and Athleta brands, described Dickson as the “lead architect” in “reinvigorating” Mattel’s brands....
...Under the rules, civil society groups would be able to take businesses to court over harm caused by impacts from their supply chains....
...The luxury sneakers do, however, successfully signal to a select group of people that you are rich. The problem is that to a different select group of people, they signal that you are an idiot....
...First Republic and the FDIC also declined to comment on the sales process....
...Expectations for the group appear to be low and falling....
...Its market capitalisation of more than Rmb2tn is the second highest in China, behind tech group Tencent, and it has for years been a core component of foreign exposure to the country....
...The Japan Exchange Group, which controls the Tokyo and Osaka exchanges, told companies in March that it wanted to see progress towards lifting corporate value . . ....
...The photograph of a group of young workers posing as they bid farewell to a colleague at Iran’s biggest online retailer could have been taken at a company anywhere in the world....
...The US government has asked JPMorgan, PNC and several other financial groups, including a handful of non-bank investment firms, to bid for all or part of First Republic, as US regulators try to determine...
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