Up by +1% at current exchange rates, loss by 1% at constant exchange rates, Wall Street’s forecasts on Coach were missed by an inch. Coach’s first quarter of the new fiscal year is good, but below expectations. At October the 1st, the US brand had sales of $ 1.04 billion (Big Apple’s analysts were expecting […]
In 2015, EU customs intercepted 41 million fake products, up 15% on the previous year. The economic activities most damaged by the assault of counterfeit products are, together with those for body care and eyewear, those in the fashion industry. Counterfeit footwear worth €58 million, clothing products worth €48 million, bags worth €57 million and […]
They call it “mannish” (although “less feminine” is perhaps apt too), – the term most used to describe London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017’s main trend – reflecting how the unification of the men’s and women’s catwalks, introduced by Burberry (and others too), has already made its mark on the style profile. Versus Versace is offering […]
Becoming champions of sustainability when the markets see your stocks take a nosedive. That’s what happened to the British brand Burberry, which chalked up two records in the space of a few hours. First, in a horrible week in which the FTSE 100 (the index of the most capitalised companies listed in London) retrogressed en […]
Burberry has a new CEO: Marco Gobbetti, the president and managing Director of Cèline since 2008, will take over the reins at the British company in 2017. He is the son of the owner of Brusarosco (now a division of the Rino Mastrotto Group), Sirio Gobbetti; Brusarosco is the oldest tanning company in Italy still […]
Google, which bypasses Apple in command, and Microsoft are the top three brands in the general classification drawn up every year by Brandz on the value of trademarks and published by WPP and Millward Brown. Nike, with $ 37 billion, comes before Zara and H & M in the Apparel category. In the luxury sector […]
