Mulberry defends price rises as pins hopes on Asia push By Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) - British luxury fashion group Mulberry defended its plans to move further upmarket, saying it was crucial to expansion plans in Asia, where local shoppers and outbound tourists are still spending heavily on top-end lines. Mulberry, known for its Bayswater and Alexa handbags, makes over 80 percent of its sales in Britain and continental Europe, and has been hit ...
June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Marks & Spencer to invest £200 million at Thames port LONDON (Reuters) - Marks & Spencer said on Monday it would invest 200 million pounds in a distribution centre at a new deep-sea container port east of London to help make its supply chain more efficient. M&S, Britain's biggest clothing retailer which also sells homewares and upmarket foods, is spending 1 billion pounds over six years to 2015 on logistics, IT and systems, as it seeks to become an ...
June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Dreaming The Impossible Dream: Land Rover Says It Plans To Take On The Germans And Win If British-based upmarket SUV and sports car maker Jaguar Land Rover can survive and then thrive in the premium car sector currently dominated by the Germans, the company might well consider incorporating that variation on Mark Twain’s words into the company logo.
June 7, 2013 - Auto Spies
Bruce Schneier in New York Times Modern worms are stealthier and they are professionally written,said Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer for British Telecom. "The criminals have gone upmarket, and they're organized and international because there is real...
Mahesh Bhatt in Sify Fobbing off all comparisons with the other sizzler of the week Mahesh Bhatt says, "Comparing our Kalyug with Neal 'N' Nikki is like comparing oranges and apples. Their film has an urban upmarket base. We've pitched out film at middleclass India. Our...
Helen Clark in Otago Daily Times Critical to moving the New Zealand economy upmarket is the quality of our design, all the way from the concept and development of goods and services to their production, marketing and distribution,Miss Clark said. "The Otago Institute of...