MILAN — Hong Kong was a sore spot for the Salvatore Ferragamo Group in the nine months, hurt by a 45 percent drop in retail sales in the region in the third quarter, but the performance in the period was lifted by other areas including Europe. “We were not anticipating what is happening in the […]
PriceWaiter in 2011 was founded by Stephen Culp and Andrew Scarborough as a solution for e-commerce retailers that were struggling with low conversion rates, shopping cart abandonment and minimum advertised pricing and comparison shopping. The cofounders have launched a marketplace where users can negotiate directly with online retailers, which PriceWaiter said makes the back-and-forth dance […]
LONDON — The Financial Times has a new editor, Roula Khalaf, who will succeed veteran newsman Lionel Barber. Khalaf is the first female editor in the paper’s 103-year-history. Khalaf has been the FT’s deputy editor since 2016, and since joining the financial newspaper in 1995, she has held a number of roles including foreign editor, where […]
Russell Westbrook, Opening Ceremony and Jordan Brand have launched their first collaboration collection at Opening Ceremony stores in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo and online. The six-piece collection, which is the first partnership between the three, and the retailer’s first project with an athlete, is comprised of an oversize T-shirt, hoodie and overcoat, track […]
The Very Warm, the outerwear brand from David Peyser Sportswear, has launched exclusively at Ssense its first collection under the direction of Laurence Chandler of Rochambeau and Studio Institute founder Nate Brown. Chandler, who has been named creative director of the brand, had been talking to the company about his Rochambeau brand. “The initial conversation […]