A leather goods retailer in Admiralty started selling knock-offs of Louis Vuitton and Chanel handbags and other branded products stored in a secret chamber of the shop six months ago. Within a short p ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
A Hong Kong traveler to Paris was denied a tax refund amounting to 4,200 euros (US$4,580) after following the instructions of personnel at the Charles De Gaulle Airport. The traveler, surnamed Wong, b ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-04
When US luxury handbag maker Coach Inc. opened its four-story flagship store in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central district, it marked the occasion with a celebrity-studded, champagne-fueled party. Seve ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
Louis Vuitton, LVMH Group's luxury fashion and accessories brand, may have to close some of its stores in second-tier Chinese cities amid declining mainland sales. Jean-Jacques Guiony, group chief fin ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
If summer is for relaxation and sports, autumn is for shopping and investing. According to the Chinese calendar, autumn is the traditional peak season for consumption – be it purchases of flats, cars ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Just when Louis Vuitton is contracting, we have Lao Feng Xiang (LFX) expanding. Despite the sluggish domestic retail market, which moved the world's largest luxury retailer to question how businesses ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-05
Travel was a long, hard and oftentimes tedious affair in Europe two centuries ago. To make a journey more pleasant, aristocrats would bring along their compact travel cases, in which they would pack t ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-08
By the time American voters go to the polls next year to elect their next president, one thing’s for certain: China will have been put through the wringer. US presidential candidates, you see -- wheth ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Global luxury brands expanding in China are better off targeting the HENRYs - "high earners, not rich yet" - instead of the ultra wealthy, Reuters said in a report. Slowing economic growth and a gover ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
It is early Sunday morning in the Botanic Gardens, one of Singapore's famous attractions. A woman in her 50s is taking her morning walk. "I am from Jilin. My daughter came here 10 years ago for studie ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-04
It was eight in the evening on Christmas Eve at the Futian border crossing in Shenzhen. A customs officer saw a white man in his 50s with a large suitcase and a bulging backpack. He called him over fo ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
The Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States slapped a fine of US$135 million on cosmetics direct-selling giant Avon Products to settle a corruption probe in China. The global beauty su ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-18
Guangzhou police have busted a crime syndicate selling fake Louis Vuitton handbags to overseas buyers through the internet. The LV knockoffs seized by the police could be worth more than 1 billion yua ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
Shares of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) tumbled after the luxury brand posted a disappointing report last week. The company said profit from recurring operations fell 5 percent in the first six m ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-29
A couple of restaurant deals are in the news this week, reflecting the big potential of China's dining-out market as consumer tastes broaden beyond fast-food. One deal has an investment arm of luxury ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-07
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton got hungry and took a big bite out of Asia's catering sector. L Capital Asia, the private-equity arm of the French luxury goods giant, announced on Wednesday the acqui ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-02
Many international retailers such as San Francisco-based Benefit Cosmetics and Japanese fashion-brand aggregator Zozotown are staying away from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s online shopping site Tmall, ...More
EJ Insight2014-03-26
Taobao.com, the online shopping site of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has teamed up with French luxury house Louis Vuitton to eradicate fake products from the Chinese site, Alibaba said in a stateme ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-11
