Retail Apparel Group, a leading specialty menswear retailer in Australia and New Zealand with more than 400 stores and high-profile store brands such as Tarocash, yd, Connor and Rockwear, has been sold at an enterprise value of $302.5 million to The Foschini Group of South Africa. The retail business was sold by private equity firm … Read More →
Retail sales of gold, silver and jewellery in China were up 7.8 percent in the first four months of the year, indicating further signs of improvement in the market. Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China showed sales rose to RMB102.8 billion (around US$15 billion) from January to April compared to the … Read More →
The fashion calendar is ass-backwards. Because fall collections are shown at Fashion Week to buyers during the end of the summer and spring collections are shown in the dead of winter, the clothes you want to buy when you need them are rarely in store. (Can you recall the last time you successfully bought snow … Read More →
Luk Fook Holdings (International) Ltd was recently named among the “Top 10 Retailers in the Hong Kong Market” in recognition of its solid business performance in the Asia-Pacific region, the company announced in a press release. The company was also listed in the “2016 Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500 Awards” for five consecutive years. Wong Wai … Read More →
UBM India Pvt Ltd recently launched the Tamil Nadu Retail Jewellers Awards (TN RJA) to recognise the outstanding efforts of individuals and organisations in the retail jewellery business in Tamil Nadu. Winners were announced in early October at a ceremony held on the sidelines of the Gems and Jewellery India International Exhibition in Chennai. Award … Read More →