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Valentino reorganises structure, creates two new management roles
Italian fashion house Valentino said on Monday it had reorganised its finance and operations structure into two distinct units to separate its business and control divisions.
Luxury
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Unilever's offer for GSK's consumer health raises doubts, questions over strategy
The bid for GSK's assets, including Sensodyne toothpaste and Advil painkillers, comes as Unilever is dealing with steep inflation and sluggish growth in emerging markets, where it derives 60% of its revenues.
Beauty
Business
ASOS to support extra 25,000 UK jobs in next four years
ASOS is big and the online fashion retailer is expected to get much bigger in the next three-to-four years. That’s according to the firm’s first-ever economic impact report complied by Oxford Economics.
Fashion
Business
Lancel’s sales up by 29% in third quarter
French leather goods label Lancel, owned by the Piquadro group, recorded sales worth €21.4 million in Q3, equivalent to a 28.8% rise, and accounting for a 46.9% share of the Italian group's total sales.
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Trade shows
Pitti Uomo’s gamble pays off
The world's premier menswear show ended on Thursday evening with a positive outcome, welcoming 4,900 buyers in total, more than double the attendance of the June session, and auguring well for the rest of the season.
Fashion
Trade shows
Première Vision New York to showcase 116 exhibitors on January 18-19
The Première Vision New York show will be held again at Center415 on Fifth Avenue on January 18-19. It isn’t yet a return to normalcy, though foreign buyers will be able to attend following the US borders’ reopening.
Fashion
Trade shows
Pitti Uomo 101 opens with grinta, Baldinini, AlphaTauri and Caruso
They may be letting unvaccinated tennis players into Australia, but here at Pitti Uomo 101 in Florence, Covid passes are obligatory, each entrant is temperature checked, and everyone wears a PPF8 masks.
Fashion
Trade shows
Pitti Uomo 101 opens menswear season on Tuesday
The Florentine show is the first event to take place in physical format at the start of 2022. Despite being hit by the renewed Covid-19 surge, it will showcase more than 500 exhibitors from January 11 to 13.
Fashion
Trade shows
