Fashion
Aditya Birla fashion retail goes online with abof.com
16 Oct 2015
The portal will offer 7,000 products initially, which the company plans to take to 20,000 in next few months
S.Africa’s Brait to acquire British fashion retailer New Look for $1.2 bn
16 May 2015
New Look, founded in 1969 by India-born entrepreneur Tom Singh, OBE, has grown from a single store to a l,800-store chain across the globe in 21 countries
Aditya Birla Group merges apparel brands into Rs5,290-cr business
04 May 2015
The company said the move would enable Aditya Birla Nuvo to unlock value for the shareholders by consolidating its branded apparels businesses
A quarter of fashion and luxury goods advertised on Facebook are counterfeit: research
15 Nov 2014
Cyber-security experts report having found that about a quarter of the fashion and luxury ads they examined on Facebook were for counterfeit goods
India bans import of animal-tested cosmetics
15 Oct 2014
Luxottica signs exclusive 10-year license agreement with Michael Kors
16 Apr 2014
Luxottica Group SpA, the world's largest eye-wear company, yesterday said that it had signed a ten-year exclusive eye-wear license agreement with luxury-goods maker Michael Kors Holdings Ltd
Blackstone acquires 20% stake in Versace
28 Feb 2014
New York-based PE firm Blackstone will buy a 20-per cent stake through a capital infusion share purchase from a holding company controlled by the Versace family
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