China launches probe into Alibaba for suspected monopolistic behaviour

Regulators had previously warned the e-commerce giant about the so-called “choosing one from two” practice under which merchants are required to sign exclusive cooperation pacts preventing them from offering products on rival platforms.A probe has been launched into Alibaba’s “choosing one from two” practice, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said in an online statement.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Financial regulators will also meet with Alibaba’s Ant Group in the coming days, according to a separate online statement by the People’s Bank of China on Thursday.The meeting is to “guide Ant Group to implement financial supervision, fair competition and …

Canada Goose expands response program

Canada Goose spokesperson, Kate Upton and husband, Justin Verlander, Pitcher for the Houston Astros, also announced they will join Canada Goose by making a monetary contribution to Mount Sinai’s Institute for Health Equity Research (IHER). IHER was created to understand the effects of health issues, including Covid-19, affecting at-risk communities, specifically those that are non-white, low-income, immigrant, uninsured, and LGBTQ+ across all ages, genders and abilities. “New York City has played an important role in the story of Canada Goose – the city and its people have embraced our brandคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. We’re proud to give back to New York and its healthcar…

France to ban destroying unsold goods, targeting Amazon, luxury brands

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that a ban on destroying non-food goods — such as clothes, electrical items, hygiene products and cosmetics — would come into force within the next four years.The announcement came after Green parties surged across Europe in last month’s European elections, not least in France where the EELV party came third with 13.5 percent of the vote.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

According to the French premier’s office, over 650 million euros ($730 million) worth of new consumer products are thrown away or destroyed every year, five times more than donations of the same products.The measure would make it compulsory to hand in the products for re-use or r…

Farfetch boss calls on fashion brands to stop scourge of discounts

Online and offline retailers are resorting so much to promotions, he said, there are only two months in the year during which there aren’t any: September and February.“So, the system is really crumbling,” Neves said in an interview on the fringes of the New York Times International Luxury Summit in Hong Kong. “The industry needs to think very strategically about how they are going to avoid a race to the bottom in terms of promotions and discounts.”คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Neves recommended that fashion brands turn into concessions those wholesale accounts, both online and offline, that do the most visible and damaging discounts. He suggested brands follow the ex…

Gucci boss describes the ‘blackface sweater’ incident as a learning experience

Supermodel Naomi Campbell was one of many who were taken by surprise by the controversy but on Wednesday she publicly backed Gucci after the brand said it had learnt a lesson from its unfortunate faux pas.Gucci was sucked into the public relations disaster after releasing product photos of the turtleneck, which many on social media associated with blackface, when white people imitate physical attributes of black people with costume or makeup, a masquerade that is widely perceived as an expression of racism.

“It was a mistake…. And for me it has been a great learning experience,” Bizzarri said on Wednesday at the Conde Nast luxury conference in Cape Town, South Africa. “It was something that we did not expect. Many people in the company did not see that it could be interpre…

European apparel sector slumps in Q3 2022

“Although tougher market conditions are starting to impact the [textile and apparel sector’s] business activity, the intensity of the downturn moderated in response to fewer supply constraints and improved expectations about the global economy,” said Euratex. The confederation also stated that the invasion of Ukraine and international trade disruptions have only added to pre-existing inflationary pressures. Notably with regards to energy, an issue on which Euratex considers the EU’s response to be insufficient.With Q4 2019 as the baseline, the European textile production index stood at 117.1 in Q3 2022. However, the supply-and-demand imbalance and weaker household purchasing power have had a more direct impact on apparel production. The latter’s index had been rising steadily …

Protecting cashmere’s future- John Lewis to fund Inner Mongolia wool programme

The retailer said its involvement will be part of a commitment “to ensuring all key raw materials in our own-brand products will be from sustainable or recycled sources by 2025”. For its part of the support, John Lewis is funding the training of 420 herders in Inner Mongolia, on the global standard. Training will be provided by a leading animal welfare NGO, the International Cooperation Committee of Animal Welfare (ICCAW), together with experts from a local agricultural university. 

In the first year, the programme will focus on animal welfare, and then it will be expanded to cover the protection of biodiversity and how to secure herder livelihoods in the long term.  Marija Rompani, partner and director of Ethics and Sustainability for the John Lewis Partnership said: …

Southeast Asia’s internet economy to hit $300 billion by 2025 as e-commerce booms

To hit that target, the online industry is expected to grow by 200% over the next five years from an estimated $100 billion this year, according to the report by Google, Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and global business consultants Bain & Company.The annual report lifted its 2025 outlook from $240 billion previously after a tripling in growth in the past four years alone as young internet users turn to their phones to do everything from banking and playing games to purchasing plane tickets.

“This pace of growth has exceeded all expectations,” the 64-page report saidคำพูดจาก เกมสล็อต. “Internet access is now affordable for large segments of the population …

Tokyo shoppers in ‘Little Seoul’ shrug off spat

Visitors to Shin-Okubo could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a district in Seoul, with rows of restaurants serving kimchi and music shops selling the latest K-pop hits from BTS or Wanna One.And in contrast to South Korea where anger over a deterioration in bilateral ties has sparked consumer boycotts of Japanese goods, it seems it takes more than a political spat to put off avid fans of Korean products.

“I love everything, K-pop, the food, the clothesคำพูดจาก สล็อตทรูวอเลท. I would also like the two countries to make up,” said Anna Kaneko, a 19-year-old student making one of her regular trips to Shin-Okubo with a friend.The latest row is deeply rooted in…

Amazon sues EU antitrust regulators for letting Italian case go ahead

Amazon took its case to the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe’s second-highest, on Tuesday, asking it to annul the EU’s decision to exclude Italy from the wider investigation, a court filing shows.The move came two months after the European Commission opened an investigation into the criteria the company uses to select winners of its “buy box”, which allows customers to add items from a specific retailer directly into their shopping carts.

The probe will also examine whether the company gives preferential treatment to its own retail offers and marketplace sellers that use its logistics and delivery services.The Italian case was launched in 2019 over the same issue but focuses on the Italian logistics markets.Amazon said the EU should absorb the Italian case for the sake of co…