Fashion

Barbour's accounts for the year to the end of April show falling revenues after it had enjoyed a strong increase in the prior year. But profits rose, a turnaround from the last year when revenue jumped but profits fell.

​Hush Homewear’s results for the year to the end of March showed the women’s lifestyle company going through another tough year with it saying its performance was “below expectations”.

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Wednesday it had agreed to sell its majority stake in hypermarket chain Sun Art Retail Group to Chinese private equity firm DCP Capital for HK$12.298 billion ($1.58 billion). 

Greece on Monday announced a campaign to protect teens from "website addiction" after a similar move by Australia targeting social media companies last month.

Job losses in UK retail topped almost 170,000 this year after the collapse of major high street chains, according to data from the Altus Group/Centre for Retail Research.

​A brand for older women no more. The icing on M&S’s turnaround cake is that younger women are again perceiving the high street retailer as the place to shop for fashion.

​M&S has released the latest collection for its successful Goodmove activewear label with a new campaign starring ambassador Alex Scott.

​Barclays has released UK data looking back at 2024 and perhaps the key point is that while clothing stores’ transaction volumes grew 3%, spend growth was nowhere to be seen with spend down 0.2%.

Mexico's tax authority SAT issued new tariffs on Tuesday, which it said will strengthen the surveillance of goods from Asia, a measure that could impact popular online retailers like Shein and Temu.

China's manufacturing activity grew for a third straight month in December but barely, an official factory survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting the effects of policy stimulus may take more time to lend support as fresh trade risks loom.

A number of business leaders — including the CEO of Chanel and the fashion chief at M&S — have been honoured by the King in the New Year’s Honours for “innovation, excellence and leadership in growing the UK economy”. 

​Sports giant Puma has just launched a new video in celebration of the Future 8 Launch Edition football boot, the eighth generation in its Future series.

​Retailers work hard to ensure consumers have the products they really want put in front of them, but shoppers continue to return a large percentage of the goods they buy and worse still, returns fraud is on the rise

​Wourth Group — the company that used to be known as Woolovers — has filed its results for the year to the end of March with the figures showing that revenue increased substantially as it made acquisitions.

​It may not be headline news, but Zalando has commissioned new research to highlight the impact it makes on Europe’s economy and the numbers it has come up with are impressive.

Fashion people are obsessed with designer moves. Earlier this month, Chanel named Matthieu Blazy as its new top designer in a round of musical chairs that has also seen Hedi Slimane leave Celine and Kim Jones exit Fendi.