Fashion

​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%.

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.

​Accounts for the companies that own and operate the David Beckham brands and businesses showed another successful year in 2023.

​We’ve had several updates from Quiz in recent weeks so nobody’s under any illusion about its performance. But it has now released half-year results plus a December update, underlining the problems it’s been facing.

​Entering the bridal category is something of a rite of passage for brands on reaching a certain level of awareness and the latest label to do so is Nobody’s Child, which has just launched its first bridal collection.

Perfect Corp has acquired Farfetch’s Wannaby operation — known as Wanna to its consumer users — as it continues to expand its fashion and beauty tech offering.

​Footfall figures have already suggested the hoped-for pre-Christmas rush happened but wasn’t as frantic as hoped and now more data tell us the appetite for post-Christmas sales isn’t as great as expected either.

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban popular social media app TikTok or force its sale.

​Retailers continue to struggle and the number in critical financial distress was up 25% in the latest quarter compared to the three months before it, according to insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor.

China revised upwards its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7% to 129.4 trillion yuan ($17.73 trillion), a top statistics official said on Thursday, while releasing the fifth national economic census.

In the most competitive holiday season in years, major U.S. retailers Target and Walmart are spending more on ads to reach shoppers on short-video app TikTok and streaming platforms.