There's been a change in leadership at L'Occitane International. After 25 years at the head of the beauty group, Reinold Geiger has handed the reins over to André Hoffmann. 

​UK consumers - women and men - are serious about their beauty regimes, Milton Keynes shopping mall centre:mk confirms in a new survey of 2,000 adults. It found that the average spend is almost £400 a year on skincare. 

The Hut Group continued to go from strength to strength in the first half of the year with group revenue rising almost 45% to £958.8 million year-on-year, and rising 95% compared to the first six months of 2019 (2YoY).

John Lewis Partnership’s half-year report on Thursday showed an improvement on the prior-year period but its results were still far below some of the figures it produced just a few years ago.

​In an optimistic outlook for the upcoming Christmas trading period, The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is to recruit more than 7,000 temporary seasonal staff across the country — 2,000 more than last year.

Make-up may have struggled as a category in the pandemic, but certain key products within it are outperforming as society works its way back to normal.

H&M Group’s Q3 sales rose 14% year-on-year (YoY), the Swedish fashion retail giant said on Wednesday. That said, the figure was in local currencies and when converted to Swedish Krona, the rise was only 9%.

Fashion retail giant Inditex said on Wednesday that its recovery is continuing to gain momentum with its sales, EBITDA and net income in the second quarter of its financial year reaching "historic highs”.

Knowlton Development Corp said on Tuesday it was looking to raise up to $857.14 million through a U.S. initial public offering, valuing the manufacturer for beauty, personal and home care brands at more than $3 billion.

Premium e-commerce marketplace Secret Sales has hired six “star” senior execs with impressive track records at some of fashion’s biggest names. They’re filling new positions as it expands at home and abroad.

Mytheresa has reported another strong quarter and year and even outperformed its own expectations. Q4 saw “exceptional net sales growth” and the full year was ahead of both 2020 and 2019.

​There are a lot of unhappy UK consumers who don’t feel Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BF/CM) discounts are all they’re cracked up to be. In fact, nine negative views are revealed in the 'Discounting Playbook' report.

Footfall across UK retail destinations dipped 4.2% week-on-week in the seven-day 5-11 September period, with shopping centres and retail parks bearing the brunt of the decline, latest Springboard figures show.

Formerly the general manager of L’Oréal’s travel retail division for Asia-Pacific, Emmanuel Goulin has replaced Luca Guillot Boschetti as head of the group’s luxury division in Italy.

City centre retail has suffered from the pandemic as tourists haven’t returned in large numbers and office workers stay home. But there’s  hope, with signs of office workers returning to semi-normal working patterns.

The UK is becoming a nation of “mindful shoppers”, a new report commissioned from Oxford Economics by the British Fashion Council and buy-now-pay-later giant Clearpay shows.