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Primark promotes Houston to chief customer and digital officer

Fashion and lifestyle retail giant Primark has just appointed a new chief customer and digital officer. Matt Houston has been promoted to the role and is now accountable for the “end-to-end customer brand”, uniting its Customer and Digital teams “into one integrated function”. He was previously group strategy and digital director and will continue to

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Macron’s Wrexham home kit launch sees orders deluge from “global fanbase”

Wrexham AFC’s new online store has made a record-breaking debut averaging one shirt order a minute as the Welsh club prepares to made its entry into the English Championship. The site, developed and managed by Italian sportswear producer Macron, is part of the multi-year extension of its partnership with Wrexham whose journey from the National

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Zara founder Ortega to buy $275 million Miami office tower

By Bloomberg Published July 14, 2025 Amancio Ortega, the billionaire founder of the Zara clothing chain, is in talks to buy an office building in Miami for €235 million ($275 million). Pontegadea eyes Miami building in Ortega’s latest US deal – Bloomberg Ortega’s family office, Pontegadea, is in advanced discussions to acquire the Sabadell Financial

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Singapore, London are costliest cities for luxury spending

By Bloomberg Published July 14, 2025 Singapore is the most expensive city in the world for spending on luxury goods for the third year running, while London edged out Hong Kong to take the second spot. See catwalkChanel – Fall-Winter2025 – 2026 – Haute Couture – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight They were followed by

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Love magazine relaunches after five-year hiatus with new creative directors

British fashion magazine Love announced its return on Monday, with the bi-annual publication set to unveil its premier edition as an independent title this September, under new creative directors, Juan Costa Paz and Nordine Benotmane. Love magazine creative directors, Juan Costa Paz (left), and Nordine Benotmane – Courtesy Part of the Paris-based agency, Convoy, Costa Paz and

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Paul Smith introduces Art of Travel for summer campaign

Paul Smith has launched a summer campaign entitled ‘Art of Travel’, with British actor Daniel Ings signed to “bring the campaign to life”. A friend of the fashion house and its signature founder, Ings’ “humorous nature and witty demeanour are the traits that align with the British design house and bring the campaign to life

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New system allows fashion marketplace accelerator The Agent to ‘cut return rates by 10%’

Fashion marketplace accelerator The Agent has adopted Akeneo’s Supplier Data Manager (SDM) system to “streamline and enhance” the uptake of its supplier product data. Team Agent Results have already included reducing return rates by 10%, doubling the volume of products onboarded, and accelerating time-to-market by a third, it claims. The Agent, which works for brands by

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Guess brings luxury brand experience to Portugal’s coast

Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published July 14, 2025 American fashion label Guess is bringing its signature flair to Portugal’s southern coast this summer, transforming Purobeach Vilamoura into a branded beachfront escape. As part of its growing European summer series, the Guess Beachfront Experience blends style, leisure and lifestyle branding at one of the Algarve’s

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Sephora Meadowhall debut sees massive turnout on opening day

Huge queues at a major shopping centre can only mean one thing, Sephora has come to town. This time it was Sheffield’s Meadowhall getting the treatment with the launch of the French beauty retail giant’s latest UK store. Over 1,000 customers queued, many from early Saturday morning, awaiting exclusive goodie bags for the first 500

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