
Kering’s E-Commerce to move in-house
Kering, the owner of Gucci, Boucheron and Pomellato, plans to end its seven-year partnership with luxury platform Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP), and bring its e-commerce activities in-house.
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Kering, the owner of Gucci, Boucheron and Pomellato, plans to end its seven-year partnership with luxury platform Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP), and bring its e-commerce activities in-house.
The holiday sales season in the United States got off to a record-breaking start, according to figures for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
Botswana has put together a negotiating team for talks with De Beers about the sides’ next sales agreement which is set to replace the current agreement which runs out in 2020.
IBM projects year-on-year retail sales growth of 4.83%, compared to 4.2% in 2017, due to ongoing high levels of consumer confidence.
Shipments of Swiss watches bounced back in October after a drop the previous month, benefiting from stronger exports of high-end timepieces.
Press release – Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, said: “As the industry’s focus turns towards the key end of year retail selling season, rough diamond sales continued to be in line with expectation during the ninth cycle of the year.
Tiffany & Co. has rolled out the holiday 2018 edition of its “Believe in Dreams” marketing campaign.
Press release – Still hopeful scope of Kimberley Process will be expanded during coming year. WDC Urges Kimberley Process Participants to Support the Expansion of the Definition of Conflict Diamonds Ahead of the 2019 Plenary Meeting in India.
Not surprisingly, the recent auction of jewelry and other items from the collection of the Bourbon-Parma family proved to be quite a hit.
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Press release – ALROSA experts completed forming the list of environment protection activities for 2019.The main features of the program – protection of atmospheric air and water resources, waste disposal, land protection and rehabilitation – were expanded
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