Avon Products Inc. the world’s largest direct seller of beauty products said on Friday it will stop making jewelry closing a factory in Puerto Rico in a move that eliminates 320 jobs. Upon closing the facility in San Sebastian at the end of April Avon said it will outsource its full jewelry line by purchasing…
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More than $1 million stolen jewelry traced from L.A. to Florida
Beverly Hills police said Monday they believe Los Angeles street gangs may have been involved in as many as 20 jewelry store burglaries around the country replica watches a local television news station reports. Some of that jewelry wound up in a Beverly Hills pawn shop fake chopard watch whose owners were arrested March 14…
Austrian Bourse VP Murdered
Werner Haas vice president of Diamant-Club Wien in Vienna Austria was shot to death Sept. 27 while at work an in office attached to his home apparently during a robbery attempt. Ernest Blom replica watches president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses has expressed his shock at the news of the murder. “This is…
Karolina Kurkova + Mercedes-Benz = BFF
Karolina Kurkova Czech model Karolina Kurkova is going to be the face of the 2011 Mercedes-Benz CLS coupe. The automaker announced today that Kurkova will replace last year’s model fake hamilton watches vacheron constantin malte replica Milla Jovovich as its “key visual” during next year’s onslaught of fashion week madness. Photographer Craig McDean shot Kurkova…
Ports Design Shares Plunge 38% On Rule Breaches; PCD Stores Also Drops (Update)
Shares in Ports Design the international apparel retailer led by one of China’s most successfulhome-grown fashion industry entrepreneurs plunged by 38% in Hong Kong today after the company said that its chairman resigned followinga failure to report a number ofinterest-free advancesof funds to related parties. (See announcement here.) Edward Tan “accepted full responsibility for failure…
No, We Won’t Be At The Super Bowl This Year
Denny’s won’t be appearing at this year’s Super Bowl. Not that I don’t see the value excitement and enormous reach that some Super bowl commercials certainly bring to some companies’ brands. At roughly $3.5 million a commercial a 2012 Super Bowl ad is a marketing decision that I hope companies have truly thought out this…
Disastrous U.K. Tax Hike Unleashes Steroid-Pumped Version Of Laffer Curve
Image via Wikipedia The Laffer Curve is one of my favorite issues (see here here here here here etc). But it is a very frustrating topic. Half my time is spent trying to convince left-leaning people that the Laffer Curve exists. I use common-sense explanations. I cite historical examples. I even use information from left-of-center…
5 o’clock heroes shuffle to Shoreditch
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Grant master plan hits City for six
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Double Denim Do or Don’t
Double denim is the one rule in fashion we all seem to stick to. Maybe it’s down to the fact we just can’t bring ourselves to pair jeans and then a denim shirt without looking at ourselves in the mirror like we have a screw lose. Things however are about to change with double denim…