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Hermès reports 10pc revenue increase for 2014

Mei Ling Tan January 14, 2015

Hermès maintains course in 2014 with a healthy 10 percent increase in its turnover, at constant exchange rates – according to Guillaume de Seynes , managing director manufacturing division &…

Cyber attacks on US retailers drop, but records stolen remain high

Mei Ling Tan January 14, 2015

Cyber attacks agains US retailers declined by as much as 50 percent since 2012, but the number of records stolen from them remains at near record highs, a new IBM…

India’s Big Bazaar opens 100th store

Mei Ling Tan January 14, 2015

India’s Big Bazaar is now present in more than 100 cities in India. The last store to be opened by the retail chain last December was the Rourkelo store in…

Myntra rejigs top management

Mei Ling Tan January 14, 2015

Ganesh Subramanian, Chief Operating Officer at Myntra.com, has been given a new responsibility as Head – New Initiatives with immediate effect. Confirming the development, Subramanian told BusinessLine: “As a company, we…

Tiffany & Co debuts its first same-sex couple ad campaign

Mei Ling Tan January 14, 2015

American jeweler Tiffany & Co makes its first foray into featuring same-sex couples in its advertising with its new engagement campaign for 2015. A rep for the jeweler didn’t release…

Study: Asia-Pacific to account for 41.4pc of global e-commerce sales

Mei Ling Tan January 14, 2015

Asia-Pacific will account for 41.4 percent of worldwide e-commerce sales and is set to overtake the US as the world’s biggest e-commerce market, the latest research by Worldwide Business Research…

Alibaba to invest about USD575m in Indian online-shopping service, Paytm

Mei Ling Tan January 13, 2015

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its financial-services affiliate have agreed to jointly invest about USD575 million in India’s One97 Communications Ltd.’s online-payment and marketplace businesses, a person…

Billabong kickstarts supply chain transformation

Mei Ling Tan January 13, 2015

Global surf brand Billabong and its family of brands is positioning its supply chain to support transformation of its wholesale and retail businesses. Billabong said it will connect suppliers and…

Fast Retailing Japan reports double-digit growth

Mei Ling Tan January 13, 2015

In the first fiscal quarter ended 30 November,, the Japanese clothing giant Fast Retailing has totaled revenues of JPY479.5 billion yen (USD4 billion) , an increase of 23 percent over…

Luxury carmakers clock best-ever India sales in 2014

Mei Ling Tan January 13, 2015

Riding on high demand that outstripped supply, luxury car manufacturers Audi and Mercedes-Benz have ended 2014 with best-ever sales in their history in India. German carmaker Audi sold 10,851 units in…

Mobile wallet outshines credit cards in India

Mei Ling Tan January 13, 2015

Mobile wallet may be a new concept, but Indians seemed to have adopted the mechanism faster than credit cards. While there are about 10-12 companies operating in the mobile wallet…

Coca-Cola to cut 1,600-1,800 jobs globally

Mei Ling Tan January 13, 2015

Coca-Cola Co. is axing at least 1,600 white-collar jobs globally as part of a cost-cutting push in response to sluggish soda sales. To view the full article (note: you must…

New nugget woes strain McDonald’s already tarnished image

Mei Ling Tan January 12, 2015

As McDonald’s Japan struggles to repair its image, tarnished from last year’s expired meat scandal, two new incidents related to its Chicken McNuggets surfaced in restaurants in Japan in the…

Made-in-China.com increases website traffic with cloud

Mei Ling Tan January 12, 2015

Made-in-China.com, a global trade commerce company, has grown its website traffic over 2000 percent using a managed cloud portfolio. The dedicated hosting solution from Backspace, which is part of its…

American Apparel bans work romances

Mei Ling Tan January 12, 2015

What do you do if you manage a company that has just ousted its founder following a string of sexual harassment allegations? The answer is to ban workplace romances –…

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Hermès reports 10pc revenue increase for 2014

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Study: Asia-Pacific to account for 41.4pc of global e-commerce sales

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