Luxury watch maker Tag Heuer has unveiled its first ‘smart watch’, an Android Wear device based on its Carrera series that sells for $1,500. It makes Apple’s highest-priced watch look pretty overpriced at $10,000. Let’s face it, most luxury watch buyers would probably rather have a Tag-branded device on their wrists than an Apple one.…
That’s the thing about trends. They’re like buses. You hang around waiting for one then two come along at once. So what has today yielded? First a shift in retailers’ approach to Black Friday, and second the growth of China’s Singles Day as a global event. So, Black Friday. Asda, one of the prime movers…
Nike wants women, lots of them. It certainly needs them if it’s going to achieve its aim of $11bn in women’s activewear sales by 2020 from the current $5.7bn. A little over-ambitious? Perhaps not. The segment grew 20% in Nike’s last financial year, double the rate of its men’s business. Christina Shi, head of Nike’s…
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