Reports that workers linked to the retailer’s suppliers are forced to endure a 75-hour working week have been levelled at the Chinese company by Swiss advocacy group Public Eye.The report claims a number of staff across six sites in Guangzhou were found to be working extremely long hours with the group’s spokesman saying there was “enormous pressure” on staff to turn clothes around quickly,…
Read moreAccording to a new study, UK consumers aged 16-24 think authenticity is about caring about customers (71%) and a good range of clothes (71%). Being true to their values, being friendly, and caring about their employees are also highly rated among the younger generation (all 66%), however younger audiences in the UK are much more likely to attach importance to factors relating to good corporate…
Read moreFollowing the positive results, the cosmetics retailer wants to focus on its plans to further expand. In May 2018, Rituals announced plans to enter the Asian market. In addition to Europe, the chain is already available in the US, where it operates 15 stores, and in the Middle East, where it has 12 shops.Within the next 10-20 years the retailer aims to be a globally operational brandคำพà¸â€¦
Read moreThe ruling deals a blow to Bernard Arnault, the company’s chairman and CEO, and the world’s richest man, who had attacked the initial decision by a judge to allow investigators to search several company offices in 2019 amid a tax fraud probe linked to activities in Belgium.Investigators launched the probe arguing LVMH could have tried to avoid taxes by claiming it carried out some operations in…
Read moreGlobal-e tracked the growth of cross-border e-tail orders based on over 350 merchants selling to international markets. Some 80% of those merchants were fashion and beauty-focused.It said it has seen an average market recovery of between six and eight weeks from initial lockdowns and the slump in discretionary buying they caused before seeing a rebound to pre-pandemic-style sales figures.
The outcome could force Facebook, Google , Amazon and Apple to separate their competing businesses, provide rivals access to their data and open up their standards to them.The European Commission, which in February said it was considering legislation against large online platforms acting as gatekeepers, has put out a 600,000-euro (525,672.73 pounds)tender for a study to gather evidence of such …
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