Brisk overseas sales, particularly in China, drove net profit up sharply at Japan's top cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. in the six months to September, the company said Thursday, October 25th.
Criminals riding scooters have made a string of smash-and-grab raids on top London designer stores, police said Wednesday, October 23th, after a pre-dawn attack on another shop.
The European Commission wants to negotiate a new anti-counterfeiting agreement with major trading partners including the United States, Japan and South Korea, the EU's trade commissioner said Tuesday, October 22nd.
A reward of half a million dollars (352,000 euros) is being offered for the return of jewels stolen in an armed robbery this month from a luxury jewellery shop on the high-fashion Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Grand extravagance is back under a new Raj of ultra-rich Indians who are splurging more and more as the world's top luxury brands rush for a piece of the huge Indian market.
Japan's Fast Retailing, the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing shops, said Thursday, October 9th its profit slipped in the past year despite its high-profile expansion push overseas.
Armed robbers got away with around ten million of euros (14 million dollars) worth of merchandise in a raid on a luxury jewellers just off the Champs Elysees in Paris Saturday, October 6th, said a police source.
Thieves in Tokyo made off with some 8,000 valuable pieces of jewellery after breaking into a store, apparently through the ceiling, police and reports said Sunday, October 7th.
A growing number of Chinese are spending their holidays going under the knife for cosmetic surgery, looking for an edge in an ever-tighter job market, state media reported Tuesday, october 2nd.
A group of prominent MPs have warned over the presence of Italian clothing retailer Benetton in Iran, saying its fashions are a bad influence on female consumers, newspapers said on Monday, August 1st.
German retail sales posted a surprise drop of 1.4 percent in August from the previous month, and shed 2.2 percent from August 2006, preliminary data released Friday, September 28th by the national statistics office showed.
Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs saw red when U.S. television executives ruled a mini-movie promoting his female fragrance was too raunchy to be aired -- so he has gone online with an even longer version.
Redcats, the mail order unit of French luxury goods group PPR, said Tuesday September 11th it plans to buy United Retail Group, a US large-size women's fashion group, for 199 million dollars (144 million euros).
A London department store went to great lengths to protect a luxury shoe collection -- with the help of a live cobra.
Hong Kong-listed Parkson Retail Group Ltd , China's largest department store chain, said on Wednesday it plans to invest in as many as 45 Parkson stores in the next five years, more than doubling its current network.