Beauty salon hopes dashed as they have to stay closed for longer

July 4 will see hairdressers, pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants able to reopen their doors, an important step for attracting shoppers back to high streets, retail parks and shopping centres.Those businesses are allowed to reopen as the previous strict 2 metre social distancing rule is relaxed, although it hasn’t been done away with altogether.

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Chanel to buy French tannery Degermann

FashionNetwork.com spoke to Degermann at the Lineapelle trade show held in Milan from October 2 to 4. The French company confirmed that negotiations are well under way, and Chanel is expected to finalise the deal and acquire a stake in Degermann by the end of 2019. Neither the value of the transaction nor the size of Chanel’s stake were disclosed. With this acquisition, Chanel will further s…

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Ahead of FTA talks with China, Lanka worried about TPP

“When reviewing the garment sector, we need to be able to carefully address the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement under which tax free garment export opportunities have been given to countries such as Vietnamคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. This may also affect exports from Sri Lanka in…

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China’s luxury shoppers call in the tidy teams

“How did you find thisคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง?” the 32-year-old asked the crack team of “home organisers” who unearthed the jacket from a heap of clothes pulled from her closet in a slick Beijing apartment.China’s breakneck growth over the past four decades has led to a surge in conspi…

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Government reforms will help India top China in textile industry

To boost the textile industry, the government recently brought in reforms to labour laws and extended a special package to the made-ups sector.With enhanced duty drawback rates to cover State levies along with an increase in capital subsidies and reforms in labor laws, the industry can expect a solid growth in investments in this sector and also increase the market share of home textile market …

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Fashion’s deadliest disaster prompts Bangladeshi workers to opt for university

In all, the bodies of 1,136 garment workers were pulled out of the rubble when the Rana Plaza building – an eight-floor factory complex supplying clothes to big brand fashion retailers – collapsed in April 2013 on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital.Three years on, as experts lament how government, retailers, factory owners and consumers have done little to safeguard workers, a small m…

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Denim woes subside as US jeans market sales grow 4% in 2016

Reuters reported in March that athleisure sales are expected to grow at 5.2% in 2017, which is slower than the average 6.9% rate that it had grown in the previous five years. In the denim world, US sales increased driven by women’s jeans that launched in 2016 and 2015 and accounted for 70% of the units sold in 2016คำพูดจาก Read more

How $5 billion of debt caught up with Toys ‘R’ Us

The largest U.S. toy retailer’s decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday took investors by surprise, given that the company faced no imminent debt maturities and had managed to overcome financial stress in the past by securing concessions from its creditors.But the company’s ability to kick the can down the road had been exhausted. The bankruptcy filing was the culmin…

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Mobile beauty shopping is on the rise, says Facebook

The social media platform’s research arm, Facebook IQ, has published a report (‘Understanding the Beauty Shopping Journey of the Connected Customer’) carried out by Accenture, that claims that shoppers are heading online for their beauty purchases.Although the report found that 65% of the 1,682 US female beauty shoppers surveyed still discover products at beauty counters and in stores, many con…

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Nike cancels retail orders due to supply chain problems

In September, Nike voiced concerns about its ability to sell its seasonal collections for the year-end festivities, given that half of Nike sneakers are sourced in Vietnam. In the last few weeks, the sector has hinted at the difficulties multibrand retailers might experience in being able to stock Nike’s most popular products in the near future. Brendan Dunne, who manages Full Size Run, a US …

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