Retail

Bloomberg Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is exploring the sale of its retail portfolio, according to people familiar with the matter. The D.C.-based REIT is working with an adviser, which has contacted potential buyers, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information is private. The portfolio could fetch roughly $800 million, one of the people ...

Bloomberg France’s grocery sector was thrown into tumult after Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA alleged it got approached about a merger by Carrefour SA, which denied making any proposal. Casino, the embattled owner of Monoprix and Geant supermarkets, said just before midnight Sunday that its board held a meeting after being contacted by Carrefour about a possible combination. Four hours later, Carrefour ...

Bloomberg Handbag maker Michael Kors Holding Ltd. is nearing an agreement to buy Gianni Versace SpA after the iconic Italian fashion house drew interest from several suitors, people familiar with the plans said. Michael Kors may announce a deal as early as this week that values Versace at about $2 billion, said the people, who asked not to be identified ...

Bloomberg Livspace, an online home interiors marketplace, raised $70 million in a round led by TPG Growth and Goldman Sachs to fund its expansion in India. The series C funding includes backing from existing investors Jungle Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Helion Ventures, the company said in a statement. Livspace said it’s on track to hit more than $100 million ...

Bloomberg In the 1990s heyday of “cool Britannia,” designers John Galliano and Alexander McQueen ruled the runway, Burberry’s tartan was the design of the moment and model Kate Moss zipped around the globe to the tune of Oasis and the Spice Girls, sporting a Union Jack blazer. But the music has stopped and today’s fashion kids are more likely to ...

Bloomberg UK suitmaker Moss Bros Group Plc is the latest retailer to wilt over the hot summer, warning that lower-than-expected store visits mean full-year profit will be “materially lower” than expected. The shares fell as much as 29 percent to a seven-year low after the company said like-for-like retail sales were down 6.9 percent in the first half. Full-year earnings ...

Bloomberg If Amazon.com Inc. proceeds with a plan to open 3,000 cashierless stores by 2021, it could cost as much as $3 billion, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley, but also signal a bigger push by one of the world’s largest companies into the grocery business. The e-commerce giant is taking a close look at the future of its AmazonGo ...

Bloomberg Tesco Plc is fighting back against German discounters Lidl and Aldi with a new line of stores that are wooing budget-conscious shoppers with a patriotic pitch. Tesco unveiled its first Jack’s store — named after the UK supermarket chain’s founder, Jack Cohen — in a small town 80 miles north of London. Private-label products, featuring a red Jack’s logo ...

Bloomberg Chanel No. 5 and the little black dress are about to come with a British twist. In a show of confidence for post-Brexit UK, French fashion icon Chanel Ltd. is transferring its global corporate functions from New York to a new home in London. Rather than expanding its Paris roots, the company will base its international team in London, ...

Bloomberg The trade war arrived at Sun Y. Park’s doorstep the day a letter from Samsonite International SA was delivered to her Manhattan luggage and leather goods shop. In the letter dated August 13, Samsonite North America President Lynne Berard notified wholesale buyers that a 10 percent price increase is imminent if the US follows through with more tariffs on ...