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...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...Williams-Sonoma, which sells high-end kitchen goods and high-ish-end home furnishings, more or less echoed that sentiment and emphasised its efforts to sell more value-priced items....
...Another unfussy but effective range is musician Pharrell Williams’ Humanrace, which comes in refillable containers....
...Results: Autodesk Q2, Bath & Body Works Q2, Footlocker Q2, Grab Q2, Kohl’s Q2, Mowi Q2, NetApp Q1, Nvidia Q2, Ooma Q2, Peloton Q4 Snowflake Q2, Splunk Q2, Williams-Sonoma Q2, Woolworths Group FY, Zuora Q2...
...Weekly highlights The SEC crackdown on crypto continues: late on Thursday evening the regulator announced that Bittrex Inc. and the platform’s co-founder and former chief executive William Shihara agreed...
...Friedman, a retail veteran who famously took the Williams-Sonoma-owned Pottery Barn business from a $50mn tableware business to a $1bn-plus furniture brand as its president, has transformed the fortunes...
...Sonoma....
...NetEase’s founder and chief executive, William Ding, has become directly involved in Eggy Party’s development to ensure its continued popularity, according to company insiders....
...Business boomed for specialist cookware stores such as Williams-Sonoma, which was one of the few places stocked with imported Le Creuset....
...That would put Nordstrom in competition with the likes of Williams Sonoma and Crate & Barrel....
...stores and job cuts....
...Luxury fashion retailer Ralph Lauren and high-end home goods retailer Williams Sonoma this week reported strong earnings in their most recent quarters, a sign demand from less price-sensitive consumers remains...
...organised events for Cartier, Sotheby’s and Off-White; and developed merchandise including “Food is a Weapon” T-shirts, pantry items like waffle and pancake mix and kitchen appliances (on sale at Target and Williams-Sonoma...
...Kiwi polish was invented by an Australian called William Ramsay. (His wife, Annie, was a New Zealander, hence the product’s name.)...
...On Friday, Starbucks announced that Rossann Williams, head of North America and the executive leading efforts to contain unionisation, is leaving the company....
...Company earnings Kitchen and home furnishing retailer Williams-Sonoma, lingerie company Victoria’s Secret, and apparel maker Guess are the latest retailers to publish earnings....
...Norco’s writing nods to Southern Gothic authors such as William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy alongside genre writers Raymond Chandler and William Gibson....
...Today, investors will look to department stores Macy’s and Kohl’s, as well as upmarket furniture and homewares retailer Williams-Sonoma, to see how they fared and for their outlook on the crucial holiday...
...Swoop, according to its app store page, “aims to be the crypto Fantasy Cricket app for India”. A noble enough aim, we suppose....
...Her husband booked us a night at a hotel three hours north of the city, so we planned a road trip stopping at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County....
...Those are needed to achieve a typical private equity annual internal rate of return of 20 per cent over five years, thinks William Woods at Bernstein....
...Williams-Sonoma, a seller of pricey kitchen doodads, which has been an absolutely terrific stock, fell 7 per cent....
...“It’s a real challenge when you have to be the two-dollar store,” said John Strong, a professor at the College of William & Mary’s business school....
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing and William Langley in Hong Kong...
...“You’re not going to a store and seeing ready-made things – everything is custom-made. You’re selecting materials and really creating it yourself,” she says....
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