From INDUSTRIALS 10:37pm

Croda cites niche products for sales lift

Speciality chemicals producer banks on consumer care division

Feb 26, 2013

Swire bids for French fashion brands

Asian conglomerate on shortlist of buyers for Sandro and Maje

©Bloomberg From LIFE & ARTS Feb 25, 2013

Bankers keep close ties with fashion houses

Families behind Italy’s brands prefer discreet dealmakers

Wojciech Inglot ©AP From COMMENT Feb 24, 2013

Chemist who gave Poland a brighter image

Eponymous cosmetics group became leading Polish foreign success story

Shoppers exit a Billabong International Ltd. store at Surfers Paradise, Australia ©Bloomberg From RETAIL Feb 22, 2013

Takeover target Billabong cuts guidance

Australian surfwear group still in talks with two suitors

The Dual Shock 4 controller being demonstrated during the PlayStation 4 launch event in New York ©Reuters From TECHNOLOGY Feb 21, 2013

Sony thinks outside the PlayStation 4 box

Latest attempt to produce wider entertainment device

From TECHNOLOGY Feb 21, 2013

Investors tire of ‘copycat’ start-ups

Too many companies trying to emulate Airbnb business model

A general view of Palazzo Mezzanotte, home to Milan stock exchange bureau (Borsa Italiana) in Milan, Italy. ©Getty From LIFE & ARTS Feb 21, 2013

Borsa Italiana reaches out to fashion

Chief aims to convince luxury groups to list on stock exchange

An employee loads bobbins of wool on to a creel machine at Axminster Carpets Ltd's factory in Axminster, U.K., on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The price of wool has surged 35 percent this year, extending gains for a third year and joining rallies in other agricultural commodities from cotton to grains ©Bloomberg From RETAIL Feb 20, 2013

Axminster looks to administrators

More than 400 jobs in East Devon are in jeopardy

From TECHNOLOGY Feb 19, 2013

Samsung bullish on premium TVs

Korean group forecasts 30%-40% market growth this year

From MANAGEMENT Feb 18, 2013

Global brands are now born everywhere

A new breed of emerging-market company is taking on more developed rivals, writes Dominique Turpin

Feb 15, 2013

Philip Green eyes bed chain Dreams

Retail billionaire among several parties through to second round

Feb 15, 2013

Japanese air purifiers are big in China

Sales shoot up amid mounting concerns over pollution

Feb 13, 2013

Reckitt gets taste for Chinese remedy

Oriental Medicine Company purchase helps group to diversify

From LEX Feb 12, 2013

Avon: cosmetic enhancements

Asian and US businesses remain in need of a makeover leaving new chief plenty to do

From LEX Feb 12, 2013

Michael Kors: high expectations

Wildly popular fashion brand risks becoming a victim of its own succes

From LEX Feb 12, 2013

L’Oréal: plain looking

Cosmetics group should be bolder in spending the €1.6bn on its balance sheet

Feb 12, 2013

Avon sees signs of stabilisation

Cosmetics seller sales tumble but income beats expectations

From LEX Feb 12, 2013

Olympus: climbing a mountain

Break-up of company last year would have been a good idea

Feb 11, 2013

Companies hit by Venezuela move

Currency devaluation to affect multinationals

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