August 2025

Global couturier Rahul Mishra has launched a 7,500 square foot flagship store in Mumbai’s historic Horniman Circle, designed in collaboration with architecture and interiors specialist Rooshad Shroff. Read More

Rent the Runway Inc. will hand over a controlling stake in the company as part of a plan to cut debt and grow, after residual effects of the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the firm to the brink of bankruptcy. Read More

Switzerland is intensifying efforts to strengthen its attractiveness as a business location, its government said on Wednesday, after being hit with some of the highest US tariffs worldwide. Read More

Britain’s biggest retailers have written to finance minister Rachel Reeves to say that further tax increases in her upcoming budget could undermine the government’s manifesto pledge to improve living standards. Read More

Miniso’s revenue for the first half of the year totalled 9,393 million yuan (1,126 million euros), marking a 21.1 % increase. Revenue generated in China increased by 11.4 %, while international revenue rose by 21.5 %. Read More

​Long-established UK-based Mamas & Papas is gearing up for the Golden Quarter with “significant” investment to grow the business and with a new leadership team set to deliver the strategy as its CEO steps down. Read More

Adidas executives visited a small Indigenous town in the mountains of southern Mexico on Thursday to offer an apology over a sandal-inspired shoe design that Mexico’s government had blasted as cultural appropriation. Read More

Discount-retailer Ross Stores Inc. jumped after projecting inflation will push more consumers to seek its off-price wares and deliver sales growth above expectations.  Read More

Birth rates falling to historic lows across the developed world, combined with people living longer, are reshaping the global market for the things we eat, wear and put on our skin. Read More