Business

Australian Accessories brand Anna Design is emerging into the limelight five years on from its creation.

Bond-Eye has quickly moved to distance itself from the collapse of The Australian Swimwear Company (ASC).

Ed Hardy has refuted suggestions the retail industry’s penchant for widespread discounting was among the pressures that motivated its recent pricing overhaul.

Accessories powerhouse Mimco is set to double its UK retail presence by Christmas, in addition to retail roll outs closer to home.

Young fashion chain Bardot has unveiled the first of its new look retail stores, at the MidCity development in central Sydney.

Briefs

The former owner of shirting brand Herringbone has made his first tentative steps back into the world of retail.

Knitwear brand Cable has taken the leap into permanent retail, following a pop-up store experiment originally driven by the global financial crisis.

The sentencing of three fraudsters has finally put to bed Charles Parsons’ entanglement in an episode of electronic crime.

E-News Briefs

Witchery and Witchery Man are using Facebook to keep Tasmanian customers in touch with store development plans.

I am perhaps the only woman in Australia, nay the developed world, who has not clocked in a single episode, let alone an entire film, of Sex & The City.

The discount department store is undergoing a fundamental change in business practice, from buying to merchandising to store presentation.

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David Jones executives Colette Garnsey and Mark McInnes were among the industry power players present at Thurley’s spring/summer collection launch.

Gladraggers

Sportscraft brand ambassador Kristy Hinze joined Wallabies players Berrick Barnes and Drew Mitchell to celebrate the brand’s latest uniform venture.

Nowhere to hide

Australian fashion designers are starting to embrace leather for all seasons.

A sell out

Department stores Myer and David Jones are in the midst of the most aggressive mid-year sales campaign in recent history.

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RCG Corporation, which owns The Athlete’s Foot and Shoe Superstore chains, continues to defy the financial downturn with an expected profit before tax increase of more than 20 per cent for the financial year to June 30, 2010.