Profits have fallen 60% for the company in the six months to September 2009, to €344 million (about $513 million at current exchange). Sursa: Fashion Week Daily Debenhams achizitioneaza retailerul danez Magasin du Nord[Copenhaga] Debenhams is to push into mainland Europe following the £12.3m acquisition of Danish department store business Magasin du Nord. Magasin du Nord has six stores, including a flagship on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen city centre and serves 20 million customers a year. Sursa: Drapers Giulia Masla pleaca de la Gucci[New York] Giulia Masla, director of worldwide public relations and events for Gucci, is leaving the company today after nearly 20 years. Masla was hired as public relations manager for Italy in 1990, and has been serving in her current post since 1995, working all the while alongside designers Tom Ford, Alessandra Facchinetti, Frida Giannini and execs Domenico De Sole, Mark Lee, and Patrizio Di Marco, the brand's current CEO. Sursa: Fashion Week Daily Bally se orienteaza catre Est[Singapore] Fresh from a makeover, luxury leather goods and clothing label Bally is out to woo fashionable Asians, but not at the expense of European and American customers who have been harder hit by the downturn. Sursa: Reuters Libby Haan lanseaza o noua firma de PR[New York] Representing the likes of Pucci, Marni, Thakoon, Solange Azagury-Partridge, Vionnet, Rochas, Hussein Chalayan and Victor & Rolf, Karla Otto Inc. has arguably emerged as New York's most formidable public relations firm since opening up an office here in 2007. Libby Haan, the firm's PR director who was instrumental in building the American business, has new projects on tap. As of today, Haan will leave Karla Otto to start her own yet-to-be-named PR firm. Sursa: Fashion Week Daily
Bulgari scoate profit[Roma] Shares in Italian jeweller Bulgari (BULG.MI) rise more than 4 percent after the company returns to a net profit in the third quarter and analysts raise their price targets on the stock. The Rome-based jeweller said after market close on Thursday that sales in its own stores rose more than 10 percent in October at constant exchange rates and that it expects the fourth quarter to be the best of the year. Sursa: Reuters Strategia designerului Rajesh Pratap Singh[New Delhi] Fashion designer Rajesh Pratap Singh does a bit of backward integration to weave his own fabrics. Fashion designer Rajesh Pratap Singh is famous as much for his exquisite and incredibly detailed clothes, sold under the label Pratap, as he is for being shy. While other marquee names in the fashion fraternity have allowed their personal persona to overshadow their work, Singh is rarely seen on Page 3 and is mostly wary of speaking to the media. Sursa: Business Standard Guess planuieste deschiderea a peste 100 de magazine in EuropaThe iconic maker of fashion jeans and other apparel is expanding fast in Europe with a new retail push and tighter control of its brand Sursa: Business Week |
