Retail

Bloomberg China’s industrial firms are doing much better this year than in 2020, but the improvement in profits is patchy, with miners and raw material providers benefiting from higher commodity prices at the expense of manufacturers. In the first 11 months of the year, industrial profits climbed 38% from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. ...

  Bloomberg The billionaire dynasty behind Selfridges & Co has sold the British department store operator to a Thai-Austrian joint venture for about 4 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) in one of the biggest UK retail deals in years. The Weston family said Central Group, which is owned by the Chirathivats, one of Asia’s wealthiest families, and Signa Holding of Austria, ...

  Bloomberg Chinese social media platforms erupted over allegations that Walmart Inc had stopped selling items from Xinjiang at its members-only grocery chain Sam’s Club in China, raising the risk that the world’s biggest retailer will be swept into escalating tensions between China and the US over the western province. Posts of screenshots showing no search results for the word ...

  Bloomberg Century Pacific Food Inc and Shakey’s Pizza Asia Ventures Inc, owned by the Po family in the Philippines, are buying two household names in transactions that perked up the local deals scene a week before yearend. Century Pacific, a tuna canner that has been building its portfolio, will acquire assets and intellectual property related to the manufacturing of ...

  Bloomberg Miniso Group Holding Ltd, a Chinese budget household and consumer goods retailer whose stock is already traded in New York, is considering a second listing in Hong Kong next year, people with knowledge of the matter said. The firm is working with Bank of America Corp. and UBS Group AG on the proposed share sale, the people said, ...

  Bloomberg Miniso Group Holding Ltd, a Chinese budget household and consumer goods retailer whose stock is already traded in New York, is considering a second listing in Hong Kong next year, people with knowledge of the matter said. The firm is working with Bank of America Corp and UBS Group AG on the proposed share sale, the people said, ...

  Bloomberg Chanel has raised global prices on some of its classic handbags by almost two-thirds since the end of 2019. A spokeswoman said the hikes are in response to unspecified exchange-rate fluctuations, changes in production costs and to ensure its handbags cost roughly the same around the world. But luxury-sector executives and analysts say the magnitude of the increases ...

  Bloomberg The Italian luxury house Ermenegildo Zegna NV is open to acquiring other textile manufacturers or a fashion brand that’s strong with younger shoppers, its chief executive officer said. Zegna manufactures its own fabrics, knitwear and yarns, and also sells those products to other brands, such as Chanel and Brunello Cucinelli. “We have this luxury textile platform,” Ermenegildo Zegna ...

  Bloomberg Snapdeal Ltd, the Indian e-commerce startup backed by SoftBank Group Corp, filed preliminary documents for an initial public offering, adding to the rush of tech companies looking to debut on the country’s exchanges amid a record-breaking stock market rally. The New Delhi-headquartered company plans to raise 12.5 billion rupees ($165 million) through the sale of new shares, according ...

  Bloomberg Target is an early winner of the US holiday shopping season. The big-box chain increased sales approximately 10% in November, according to Bloomberg Second Measure, which analyses anonymised US consumer transactions to measure revenue. The retailer’s gains doubled the rate of top rivals Walmart and Amazon. Of course, December could be a different story with the arrival of ...