By Reuters Published October 9, 2025 Levi Strauss raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts on Thursday, banking on strong demand for wide-leg denim bottoms in Europe and the Americas despite higher tariffs. San Francisco, California-based Levi Strauss reported a 7% rise in net revenue for the quarter ended August 31 to $1.54 billion, beating…
Published October 9, 2025 Basque conglomerate Ternua Group is moving forward with its insolvency proceedings, announced in June, through the sale of its Ternua and Loreak Mendian brands. The Dikar co-operative, part of Mondragon Corporation, has acquired the group’s eponymous brand, following authorisation from Commercial Court No 1 in San Sebastián. The deal aims to…
Published October 9, 2025 Oakridge Park announced on Thursday a lineup of global brands making their Vancouver debut at the shopping centre, slated to open in Spring 2026. Oakridge Park to welcome lineup of global luxury brands. – Oakridge Park Among the luxury houses joining Oakridge Park are Loewe, Loro Piana, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Thom…
Over the past decade, cost-sharing (the out-of-pocket portion of household health spending) has grown faster than both workers’ wages and general inflation for those with employer coverage. In recent years, that growth has reached a rate more similar to inflation. Since 2003, average out-of-pocket costs have increased by 37%. In 2023, a majority (66%) of…
Published October 9, 2025 Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet has reopened its Madison Avenue flagship, unveiling a new design vision that blends fashion, discovery, and community. Alice + Olivia reopens Madison Avenue flagship. – Alice + Olivia The transformation was designed in collaboration with Jess and Jonathan Nahon of Sugarhouse Design + Architecture to…
Health communicators face the persistent challenge of balancing correcting misinformation with the risk of amplifying claims that audiences might not have noticed otherwise. As KFF’s President and CEO, Drew Altman noted in a previous column, reporters and communicators “likely [have] no choice when [politicians] spread false information but to cover it and correct the lies…
With vulnerabilities growing faster than most organizations can keep up with, the need for a smarter, easier way to reduce risk has never been more urgent. That’s why in 2019 Qualys launched Patch Management—the first solution built to reduce risk, not just push software updates. Since then, the solution has evolved into full-scale vulnerability elimination,…
By Reuters Published October 9, 2025 Online fast-fashion retailer Shein is strengthening its controls after a string of fines over data privacy breaches, fake discounts and greenwashing, according to a letter to investors, internal memos and two sources with direct knowledge of the plan. Reuters Shein, which ships cheap clothes and accessories direct from factories…
Introduction What used to be rare extreme weather events have increased in both intensity and frequency due to climate change. August 29, 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest storms to hit the continental U.S., resulting in the deaths…
Published October 9, 2025 We’ve not heard much from Frasers Group on the acquisition front lately — which is unusual for such an acquisition-hungry business. But on Thursday it delivered some big-league news focused not on UK retail as usual but on the US. The Webster Palm Springs UK-based Frasers is acquiring a majority position…
