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Fashion, luxury and lifestyle news aggregator - November 2025
Posted: 03/12/2025
Skims, the shapewear brand co-founded by Kim Kardashian, has achieved an eye watering $5 billion valuation after raising $225 million in new venture capital funding. Like many celebrity-driven brands, Skims has captured the attention of younger consumers and benefited from Kardashian's large social media following. The brand intends to use......>>
Fashion, luxury and lifestyle news aggregator - September 2025
Posted: 03/10/2025
As October begins, the fashion, luxury, and lifestyle sectors are navigating shifting consumer behaviours, economic headwinds, and poignant industry milestones following a mixed summer season. Early summer data from the British Retail Consortium showed that July failed to deliver the boost in shoppers many retailers had hoped for.......>>
PISCES: a new future for capital markets
Posted: 29/07/2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its final rules to support the launch of the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES). This innovative, regulated platform will enable intermittent trading in private company shares within a controlled environment. PISCES blends features from both capital markets......>>
Fashion, luxury and lifestyle news aggregator - June 2025
Posted: 20/06/2025
Apple has reportedly made significant strides in developing a chip for its long-rumoured smart glasses, setting the stage for a new wave of competition in the wearable tech space. The chip, based on Apple Watch architecture but re-engineered to support multiple cameras, is expected to enter mass production by late 2026 or early 2027......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper is advising SkinBioTherapeutics plc on a placing, subscription and retail offer on AIM
Posted: 18/06/2025
The corporate team at Penningtons Manches Cooper is advising SkinBioTherapeutics plc (AIM: SBTX) on a £4.6 million placing, subscription and a separate retail offer to existing shareholders through the Winterflood Retail Access Platform. This is the fifth equity fundraising on AIM on which Penningtons Manches Cooper has advised......>>
Fashion, luxury and lifestyle news aggregator - May 2025
Posted: 06/05/2025
The fashion industry is likely to be among the hardest hit by Trump's reciprocal import tariffs, with 98% of clothing sold in the US being imported, in particular from China and Mexico. The tariffs include a 10% duty on all imports to the US, but those countries with whom America has bigger trade deficits (which include China and Vietnam) face a higher......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper advises Shore Capital on £7.2 million equity fundraising for Cake Box Holdings plc
Posted: 01/04/2025
The corporate team at Penningtons Manches Cooper has advised Shore Capital as nominated adviser and sole bookrunner to Cake Box Holdings plc, on a £7.2 million fundraising through a placing and retail offer, in order to part finance the acquisition by Cake Box of Ambala Foods Limited, a prestigious Asian sweet manufacturer based......>>
Fashion, luxury and lifestyle news aggregator - March 2025
Posted: 28/03/2025
Luxury shoe designer Steve Madden recently announced that it is set to acquire British brand Kurt Geiger from private equity firm Cinven for approximately £289 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025. Edward Rosenfield (chair & CEO of Steve Madden) expressed his excitement for the deal, noting that Kurt......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper advises Shore Capital on the acquisition of Brand Architekts Group plc by Warpaint London plc, and £15 million associated equity fundraising
Posted: 17/02/2025
The corporate team at Penningtons Manches Cooper has advised Shore Capital as sole financial adviser, nominated adviser and sole broker to Warpaint London plc on its acquisition of Brand Architekts Group plc, and the £15 million associated equity fundraising with existing investors, comprising a placing and retail offer. The recommended cash......>>
Fashion, luxury and lifestyle news aggregator - January 2025
Posted: 03/02/2025
Data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) painted a muted picture for the retail industry across the festive period, with sales growth of 4% year on year in the three months to December 2024, and total retail sales for the year increasing by a modest 0.7% from 2023. Helen Dickinson, chief executive at the BRC, said it was......>>

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