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Amazon Europe partners with Hewi to offer second-hand luxury goods
Amazon has partnered with high-end resale platform Hardly Ever Worn It (Hewi) to bring second-hand luxury items on Amazon Luxury Stores to customers in Germany, France, Spain and the UK. Hewi is based in London. The new partnership enables customers to browse second-hand items from luxury brands across women’s ready-to-wear, ...
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Amazon puts the moves on France
In the Pixar movie of the same name, a Provençal dish called ratatouille serves to save the soul of a crotchety old food critic in France. The stewed vegetables produce an epiphany, hitting the critic like the madeleine hit Proust, and transport him back “in search of lost time” or ...
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Aug. 5 Short Stops: Amazon - Anta – Beyond Yoga - Carhartt – EFTTEX - Paquetà – Pecheur.com – Sanitized - Vietnam Footwear & Leather Show - WFSGI
Corporate: +++ Levi Strauss & Co. says it is in line to acquire Beyond Yoga, an apparel producer specializing in leggings and other “body positive apparel” that will potentially add $100 million to the group’s revenues this year +++ Arts et Bien, a Paris-based private equity firm, has ...
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Just a few weeks after his departure from the top...
Just a few weeks after his departure from the top of Puma's European operations, Sergio Bucher has been appointed head of apparel at Amazon Europe. Bucher has been in the apparel and sporting goods industry since 1987 in various positions with DuPont (then owner of Invista and various brands of man-made fibers such ...