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Retail Asia07/08/2018

Burberry has a new graphic identity. The British megabrand’s chief creative officer Riccardo Tisci took to his personal Instagram Stories to unveil a new logo — stark capital letters saying “Burberry London England,” replacing the previously softer, rounder font — and monogram — the founder Thomas Burberry’s initials “TB” interlocked across a honeyed background — […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2018

Rising ranks of Chinese tourists helped luxury brand Burberry achieve modest first-quarter sales growth despite soft demand in other regions. Burberry sales in Mainland China grew “and Hong Kong, Korea and Japan all benefited from Chinese spend shifting more to Asian tourist destinations within the region”. Precise sales data was not released by region, but […]

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Retail Asia29/05/2018

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Alibaba Group has bought a minority stake in Ordre, a European online luxury wholesale platform. Ordre, launched in 2015, allows fashion designers to show off their collections via 360-degree photography and virtual reality to interested wholesale buyers. The technologies make it more convenient for buyers, who aren’t always able to travel due to time and distance constraints, […]

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Retail Asia21/05/2018

Burberry, which is seen as punching below its weight in handbags and leather accessories compared to its peers, said it will be taking a team of around 100 leather goods specialists in-house as part of the deal agreed with CF&P, one of its longstanding suppliers. It did not say how much it would pay for […]

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Retail Asia17/05/2018

Christopher Bailey’s last collection for British luxury brand Burberry helped lift the company’s profits by 5 per cent, exceeding analysts’ expectations and signalling a turnaround program is already bearing fruits. Bailey has stepped down as chief creative officer – and earlier as CEO – and his swansong for the brand, a rainbow-tinted collection released in […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2018

Burberry says it has entered into an agreement to acquire a luxury leather-goods business from longstanding Italian partner CF&P. CF&P employees, including the craftsmen who have worked with the British luxury fashion house for more than a decade, will transfer to the company once the transaction is complete, expected late this year. “This acquisition is […]

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Retail Asia07/03/2018

Britain’s Burberry is set to lose its long-serving Chief Marketing Officer, Sarah Manley, who joined the luxury brand back in 2001, just one month after Christopher Bailey’s entrance into the top spot. Coinciding with Bailey’s last runway show for Burberry last week, Manley is reportedly packing her Burberry bags too, with a departure date slated […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2018

Fashion company Burberry has appointed Riccardo Tisci chief creative officer, effective from March 12. With expertise across womenswear, menswear, leather goods and accessories, Tisci joins Burberry from Givenchy, where he was creative director from 2005 to last year. A graduate of Central Saint Martins in London,Tisci will direct all Burberry collections and present his first […]

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Retail Asia21/02/2018

Christopher Bailey has marked the end of his tenure at Burberry with a final, rainbow-themed collection unveiled at London Fashion Week over the weekend. Bailey first joined Burberry in 2001 and has since been a driving force behind the brand’s revitalisation and success both as a high street retailer and wholesaler. He is credited for […]

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Retail Asia01/02/2018

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To celebrate Lunar New Year and the arrival of the Year of the Dog, luxury travel retailer DFS Group will offer special promotions and interactive activities at certain T Galleria and DFS stores worldwide next month. There will also be exclusive offers from the group’s Give Joy Together gift guide. In-store activities will include a Pokemon Go-inspired […]

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Retail Asia25/01/2018

Japanese used-clothing market 2nd Street USA has set up shop in the US. A subsidiary of Tokyo-based GEO Holdings, 2nd Street USA has opened on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Selling and buying goods, it offers men’s and women’s clothing as well as accessories. Among the assortment are designer labels like Burberry, MCM and Supreme, […]

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Retail Asia19/01/2018

Burberry sales in Asia rose “by the mid single digits” in the three months to year end, as the company reported a modest 2 per cent same-store improvement gobally. Asia Pacific was the strongest performing market for the UK-headquartered luxury retailer, with Mainland China leading the way. Hong Kong sales were “broadly unchanged” year-on-year despite […]

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Retail Asia18/01/2018

UK luxury brand Burberry today reported a 2% drop in retail revenue for the Christmas quarter after sales in Europe slipped against a year ago when a fall in the pound had helped its home market. Chief executive Marco Gobbetti set out a plan in November to take the label further up-market. But the company […]

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Retail Asia15/01/2018

Amazon has been struggling to recruit luxury brands to sell their good on its platform, but there is one way that it could make its marketplace more of a destination for shoppers looking for certain tiers of luxury products. Amazon could launch vertically integrated, mass-customized brands of its own that use technology to smooth the customer […]

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Retail Asia05/12/2017

Burberry held a special event with British illustrator and artist Danny Sangra from 28 to 29 November 2017 to celebrate the new Doodle collection in Cheongdam flagship store, Seoul. ‘Doodle’ means ‘playful graffiti’. The Doodle Collection is a playful scribble with a felt marker pen from reversible canvas tote bags, sneakers, silk and cotton blend […]

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Retail Asia29/11/2017

Burberry Japan will shutter its entire beauty retail network by 2018, comprised of Burberry Beauty and Burberry Beauty Box stores. Following the closing of the Yokohama store in October 2017, Burberry Beauty before December 31 will have finalised mass store closures across Japan, after the British firm’s Japanese distributor Shiseido ended the contract partnership in April 2017. […]

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Retail Asia11/11/2017

Trumpeting solid growth in China sales in the first half year, Burberry has revealed plans to head more upmarket and cull its store network. Burberry marketing, retailing and communication will be refocused to meet the changing demands of today’s luxury customers, explained CEO Marco Gobbetti. The British-headquartered company, which achieves about 90 per cent of […]

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Retail Asia09/11/2017

A “steady if cautious” Hong Kong retail recovery is clearly underway, according to a report from Savills released today. “The retail sector is slowly coming to life after four years of painful adjustment which has seen the emergence of a ‘tenant’s market’, a rare occurrence in Hong Kong’s landlord-dominated retail scene,” observed Simon Smith, head […]

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Retail Asia02/11/2017

Christopher Bailey is to depart from Burberry after 17 years as its creative head. In a statement issued overnight, Burberry said Bailey, 46, will remain in his dual roles of president and chief creative officer until March 31, when he will also resign from the board. He will design the Spring/Summer 2018 collection and exit […]

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Retail Asia06/09/2017

International sunglasses retailer Sunglass Hut opened a new store in Hangzhou’s Intime Wulin store, which is the brand’s third store in the city following the ones in Hangzhou Kerry Centre and Hangzhou Bailian Outlets. Sunglass Hut has reached cooperation with many first-tier brands, including Ray-Ban, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, Tiffany & Co., and Coach. […]

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