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...Earnings of 68 cents a share were down 14 per cent from a year ago, while revenues dropped 2 per cent to $8.6bn. Both figures were less than analysts expected....
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...LVMH shares rose 1.8 per cent in early trading, pulling up shares in rivals Hermes and Richemont....
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...For the full year, sales in China rose 8 per cent adjusted for currency swings. Until 2019, China had been Adidas’s most important driver of growth and profits but sales almost halved subsequently....
...That missed economist forecasts for a 0.8 per cent gain but was higher than a downwardly revised January reading of a 1.1 per cent decline....
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...The deal comes a few weeks after Disney made an $8.5bn deal to merge its Indian business with Reliance. Indian entities own the rest of Viacom 18....
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...Consultancy Bain expects the market for personal luxury goods to grow by 1 to 4 per cent in 2024, down from an estimated 8 to 10 per cent in 2023....
...Non-store retailing, which includes online, contracted 1.5 per cent in March, while sales in department stores were down 3.8 per cent....
...Here sales were up 9 per cent year-on-year to $12.2bn, meaning China took the second spot from the UK (down 8 per cent to $10.9bn)....
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