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...Accor is also launching luxury hotels and trains under the Orient Express brand....
...The transaction is a new chapter for the Pinault family’s holdings, which have largely focused on the luxury industry in the past decade....
...LVMH’s big succession question With five children, Bernard Arnault faces difficult choices in divvying up his luxury empire and preserving his legacy, The New York Times reports....
...Five years in development, the watch was tested by Hayek and professional diver Laurent Ballesta, founder of the Blancpain-backed Gombessa project, which undertakes extreme underwater expeditions around...
...Swiss luxury group Richemont is in “advanced talks” with online retailer Farfetch and other companies over a deal to invest in its lossmaking Yoox Net-a-Porter ecommerce business that has long been a sore...
...Would the hull stand an expedition? “Hit it with a hammer,” advised Andy Butler of Go Kayaking, a specialist retailer in Runcorn, “Then hit it with a rock, then jump on it....
...France is famous for many things — its cuisine, luxury goods and art de vivre....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...Battery-powered devices would have quickly been rendered useless by the extreme cold during the 52-day expedition, as they tend to lose power faster in colder conditions....
...The vendor was another limited liability company, Bayrock/Sapir Organization LLC....
...L’Oréal’s profit growth was driven by strong performances from its luxury division — home to brands such as Lancôme, YSL and Giorgio Armani — and from Asia, its fastest-growing region....
...Luxury crystal and jewellery maker Baccarat is to sell the 88.8 per cent stake currently owned by its majority shareholders to Chinese investment group Fortune Fountain Capital, valuing the French company...
...Executives from the luxury industry are already talking to Mr Trump....
...Better sales are one reason that French luxury goods group LVMH was able to report 3 per cent revenue growth in the first half of the year — but not the main reason....
...“There are no Saudi Arabian watchmakers so they couldn’t give from their own country something like that and it’s a piece of luxury.”...
...(The Verge) Tech tools you can use – Kindle Oasis The cost of Amazon’s premium eReader, at $290 (£270 in the UK), makes its feature of one-handed page turning a luxury that few can afford, writes Leslie...
...The acquisitive brewer is well known for shaking up the cosy boardrooms of its M&A targets with lightening strikes against private dining rooms, company cars and luxury hotels....
...In the travel clocks section of the exhibition is the quarter-repeating clock that General Napoleon Bonaparte took on his expeditions after buying it in 1798....
...Vertu, the UK-based maker of handcrafted luxury smartphones that feature precious metals, leather casings and sapphire screens, has been sold by Swedish private equity group EQT to Chinese investors, in...
...Luxury group Richemont agreed to sell Net-a-Porter to Yoox for shares earlier this year. Tales of catfights behind the catwalk fit in with stereotypes created by flicks such as The Devil Wears Prada....
...SAS (flysas.com) flies daily from Oslo to Longyearbyen (return flights from London via Oslo to Longyearbyen cost from around £240)....
...Sticking with the concept is this year’s North Flag, a watch inspired by the pieces taken on the British North Greenland expedition of the early 1950s....
...The global luxury brand presented its collection on the 54th floor of Four World Trade Center in New York. The models were high calibre — Edie Campbell, Abbey Lee Kershaw....
...global mood of luxury customers....
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