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...John Smedley has also absorbed the extra costs of Brexit although, as a manufacturer in the UK, it avoids tariffs when exporting to the EU....
...John Smedley employs about 350 people, generating about £18m in annual sales....
...“The UK luxury market is tourist-driven, so with the weaker pound most brands have enjoyed double-digit growth since Brexit,” says Thomas Chauvet, head of luxury goods at Citigroup....
...Mr Smedley said in a tweet: “Yes. My plane was diverted. Not going to discuss more than that. Justice will find these guys.”...
...John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, said in a tweet: “Yes. My plane was diverted. Not going to discuss more than that. Justice will find these guys.”...
...Mill House, a Grade-II listed, period property in Dorset, was used as a pub in the 1967 film of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, starring Julie Christie....
...Nick Thomas, designer at English knitwear specialist John Smedley, says: “Like a twinset is an icon of women’s knitwear, the roll neck is an icon for men’s knitwear....
...Mr Marsden-Smedley said the buyer of the £5m home “went to ground” last year after deciding that the global economy was too unstable but returned at Easter with renewed confidence....
...As Kitamura puts it: “I really liked Terry’s shop – and the way he would mix high fashion with John Smedley and Doctor Marten’s. I thought that mix would be interesting for Japan.”...
...Peter Smedley, an analyst at Bridgewell, said Mr King’s exodus left only two of a six-person management team announced three years ago to implement Matalan’s turnround strategy....
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