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[ LONDON] British tycoon Philip Green's Arcadia fashion group has collapsed into administration, putting over 13,000 jobs at risk and becoming the country's biggest corporate casualty of the COVID...
[WELLINGTON] Consumer goods giant Unilever will trial a four-day working week in New Zealand to enhance worker wellbeing and boost productivity.
[SAN FRANCISCO] Online deals for gadgets, games, wine and clothes put "Cyber Monday" sales on track for record levels in the United States, according to an industry tracker.
[WASHINGTON] Cyber Monday is on track to bring in a record of as much as US$12.7 billion in online sales, according to latest industry estimates, surpassing Black Friday's digital numbers as US...
[LONDON] Consumer goods giant Unilever said Monday that it has become a wholly British company, completing a historic merger of its Dutch and British corporate entities to end its double-headed...
[LONDON] Philip Green's Arcadia Group is poised to seek protection from creditors as soon as Monday and become the most notable UK retail insolvency since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic...
[LONDON] In 2015, the chairman and controlling shareholder of the luxury goods group Richemont, Johann Rupert, took to the stage at an industry conference in Monte Carlo and issued a rallying cry...
[NEW YORK] Suning.com Co, one of the largest retailers in China, is considering selling a stake in its e-commerce business as it aims to ease financing pressures, according to people familiar with...
[NEW YORK] US online sales surged on the traditional Black Friday to set the country's second-highest one-day mark ever as virus-wary Americans shunned in-person shopping, the Adobe software...
[BARCELONA] A British fashion retailer offering Black Friday bargain-hunters discounts of up to 99 per cent faced criticism and questions on social media over how it could keep its promises to pay...
[NEW YORK] Black Friday - once the ultimate US shopping day - is being disrupted like so much else in these Covid-19 times, with consumers largely avoiding malls and instead flocking online.
