Galeries Lafayette owner sets up fund to invest in tech start-ups

Motier Ventures is presided by Guillaume Houzé, image and communication director of the Galeries Lafayette group, and aims to fund new companies “that are tapping technology to generate ultra-high growth.” Motier Ventures will act as business angel, providing initial funding of up to €300,000, and is prepared to invest up to €3 million as companies develop further.The family office was set up at the end of 2021 and was first promoted in early 2022. It said it will prioritise investment in e-marketplaces and start-ups operating in finance and insurance, as well as software developers and other web3 players like blockchain solution developersคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Motier …

Amazon’s Bezos pledges $10 billion to climate change fight

Bezos, who is the world’s richest man, is among a growing list of billionaires to dedicate substantial funds towards combating the impact of global warming.”Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” Bezos said in an Instagram post. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share.”

The Bezos Earth Fund will begin issuing grants this summer as part of the initiative.”It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals,” Bezos said.Counteracting climate change has become a popular cause for U.S. billionaires in recent years, with Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and hedge f…

Lab-grown diamonds put natural gems under pressure

Man-made gems are reshaping the $89 billion global diamond jewellery market, especially in the west Indian city of Surat where 90 percent of the world’s diamonds are cut and polished.In Smit Patel’s gleaming lab, technicians drop crystal diamond “seed” slices into reactors mimicking the extreme pressure far underground.

“Once the customer sees it for herself, they are sold. I believe this is the future,” said Patel, director of Greenlab Diamonds and the third generation of his family to deal in diamonds.From seed to ring-ready jewels, his team takes less than eight weeks to produce a diamond virtually indistinguishable from a mined gem.”It’s the same product, it’s the same chemical, the same optical properties,” Patel said.

Gas, heat, pressure

Lab-grown diamond exports…

Lockdown students ride to fashion’s rescue with spending boost – Kantar

Looking at the student phenomenon, data from Kantar and shared with Fashionnetwork.com for the four weeks to April 5 showed that many young people have found themselves with unexpected cash available. And they’re spending it on clothes.Glen Tooke, Kantar’s Consumer Insights Director, told us that consumers generally have money available that might have gone on socialising and “students are in a very similar boat to the rest of the population in not being able to socialise. But the main difference is that a lot of them have, with lockdown, been able to get out of the last term of their halls rent. Potentially giving them additional money.”

In fact, when Kantar looked at spending by all types of employment, it saw students boosting their fashion spend online in the four-week…

NPD predicts U.S. footwear sales will recover in 2021

NDP’s ‘Future of Footwear’ report predicts that fashion footwear will see renewed sales during the coming year as consumers begin to return to some of their pre-Covid behaviors. Meanwhile, the women’s slippers category—which saw popularity this year alongside loungewear as remote work became the norm—is likely to be a popular holiday gift item and will remain strong in 2021, possibly outperforming 2020 sales, the company said. 

“A return to the office and store re-openings will likely reignite some demand for fashion footwear, although the focus will remain on casual and comfort-oriented styles,” said Beth Goldstein, NPD’s fashion footwear and accessories analyst.”The pandemic has only amplified the importance of these attributes, as the blending of work-from-home and …

Rent the Runway opens first-ever international tech office

Set to open in Galway, Ireland, in May, the office is expected to enable the company to expand its engineering and product development footprint. The office will be temporarily located at the Portershed and will move to a more permanent home later this summer.“We are thrilled to open our first-ever international office in Galway, where we’ve had overwhelming support from the Irish Government and the IDA,” said Rent the Runway Chief Technology Officer, Josh Builder, in a news statement.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

“From the start, it was clear that Galway was the perfect location for our new office – the city has an atmosphere of creativity, mirrors Rent the Runway’s cu…

Thai Oct factory output rises for 3rd month, but less than forecast

The Industry Ministry said on Wednesday its manufacturing production index (MPI) in October was up 0.1 percent from a year earlierคำพูดจาก เว็บตรง true wallet. A Reuters poll had forecast a rise of 0.75 percent. In September, output rose a revised 1.13 percent from a year earlier, rather than the 0.6 percent increase reported earlier after August’s 3.18 percent gain.Industrial goods accounted for 80 percent of total exports in October, which surprisingly slumped 4.2 percent from the year before, customs data showed earlier. Shipments are worth about two-thirds of the economyคำพูดจาก เว็บส…

UK consumer confidence dips again in January, outlook weak

Consumer confidence this month has dropped three points to a reading of -45 and continues to bump along at near-historic lows, the long-running Consumer Confidence Index showed Friday.Following grim UK retail news on Friday, that fact just adds to the pessimism about retail’s prospects this year.คำพูดจาก สล็อต666

The wider reading showed four measures were down and one was up, compared to December’s announcement.The index measuring changes in personal finances over the last 12 months fell three points to -31, some 25 points lower than January 2022คำพูดจาก เว็บปั่นสล็อตเว…

UK fashion risks ‘decimation’ due to Brexit say fashion insiders in open letter to PM

Over 400 people signed an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanding action.Spearheaded by industry forum Fashion Roundtable, signatories include retailers, designers, models and model agency bosses, creatives, photographers, stylists and more. On the list are Matchesfashion co-founder Ruth Chapman, Katharine Hamnett, Jasmine Guinness, Roksanda Ilincic, Ashish Gupta, Caroline Issa, Jefferson Hack, Jane Shepherdson, Alice Temperley, Juergen teller, Nick Knight, Richard Malone, Twiggy, Yasmin Le Bon, Caryn Franklin, Patrick Grant and many more.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

The letter said the industry has been “disregarded in this deal and our concerns overlooked in cu…

Weakest U.S. retail sales since 2009 cast pall over economy

The shockingly weak report from the Commerce Department on Thursday led to growth estimates for the fourth-quarter being cut to below a 2.0 percent annualized rate.December’s collapse in retail sales and other data showing an unexpected increase in the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits last week and a second straight monthly decline in producer prices in January support the Federal Reserve’s pledge to be “patient” before raising interest rates further this year.

“Until this morning, Fed official hesitance to hike further was based on risks emanating from global growth and from financial markets, despite a strong domestic outlook,” said Andrew Hollenhorst, an economist at Citigroup in New Yorkคำพูดจาก

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