2026

Crown Brands Group, a newly formed brand management firm, in partnership with Rafar Group, the parent company of Gelmart International, has acquired intimate apparel brand Hanky Panky.  Read More

Centric Brands announced on Wednesday it has acquired select assets of Fownes Brothers & Co., as the U.S. management firm looks enhance its portfolio and strengthen its grip on the cold-weather accessories market. Read More

Luxury auction firm Christie’s has promoted Kimberly Miller to the role of global managing director for luxury. Read More

​Hush Homewear’s results show the company enduring another tough year after disappointing  performances in previous periods. But there was good news in the accounts filing as well with improved profitability. Read More

​Primark’s owner Associated British Foods delivered a Golden Quarter trading update on Thursday and said the 16 weeks to 3 January was a “challenging period”. Read More

​M&S’s Golden Quarter was “solid”, the retail giant said on Thursday with the 13 weeks to 27 December seeing a record number of people shopping at the stores and online. Read More

​Tesco, like all the key UK supermarkets, has major fashion operations and while it doesn’t always share much information about them, on Thursday it did say that fashion sales rose in the latest period. Read More

GU has appointed Francesco Risso to be its new creative director, six months after the Italian designer left the same position at Marni. Read More

Tommy Hilfiger will never walk alone again, seeing as the American designer has just signed a pathbreaking new partnership with Liverpool Football Club. Read More

Kim Kardashian’s brand Skims is expanding its physical footprint in Mexico with the opening of a new store in Los Cabos, reinforcing Mexico’s status as the only Latin American market where the brand has stores. Read More