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  1. designed for or used by people who belong to a high social class or have a lot of money

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Upmarket food retailer Marks and Spencer dropped 4.5% after Tesco said it was considering a trial of an upmarket convenience store under the "Tesco finest" banner.
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It could become one of Portugal's biggest upmarket development projects.
The company bought upmarket grocer Whole Foods Market in June.
Coach acquired its own upmarket shoemaker, Stuart Weitzman, in 2015.
Newly legal, some plan to kit themselves out like upmarket pharmacies.
Targets included the upmarket Shangri-La hotel in the capital, Colombo.
As its name suggests, Rent the Runway's inventory is firmly upmarket.
Nestle says the boutiques have been successful in taking KitKat upmarket.
Yimby prioritization of upmarket housing and wealthy tenants will mean for
In recent years, though, some pet food companies have moved upmarket.
Marks & Spencer, an upmarket chain, has a 100% free-range egg policy.
Pestana is a family-owned chain of more than 90 upmarket hotels.
I was visiting Fortnum and Mason, an upmarket department store in Piccadilly.
But as it moves upmarket, competitors can either adapt or be displaced.
They had a thousand photographs and were fanzines basically, but very upmarket.
The discount group's push upmarket has been driven by its own economics.
Some won't make it in the industry, while others may go upmarket.
Upmarket Waitrose saw its market share hold steady at 5%, Kantar said.
But London's more upmarket productions are not immune from rowdy behavior, either.
But London's more upmarket productions are not immune from rowdy behavior, either.
Real estate auctions, once used for foreclosures and distressed sellers, is moving upmarket.
Hyundai's move upmarket in the past few years exposed it to fiercer competition.
Upmarket estate agent Savills fell 1.5 percent while LSL Property slumped 6 percent.
THE new app for an upmarket British department store certainly looks the part.
It's basically an upmarket Sonos that looks like it came from outer space.
As high rises go up, the capital's fashionable sip espressos in upmarket bars.
In that case, you're dealing with premium appointments, luxurious extras, and upmarket styling.
"We are continuing to move upmarket," Friar said on a call with analysts.
Now, more and more companies are trying to bring their subcompact SUVs upmarket.
There has been an explosion in the Defence Housing Authority, an upmarket suburb.
"I think it was skewed a little bit too upmarket," Mr. Metzger said.
Upmarket grocery stores add as much as 10 percent to real estate values.
Stage 4 in the publication's transformation from upmarket nudie collectible to cultural barometer.
It started when the Amanpuri resort opened and spearheaded the island's upmarket transformation.
In stores, it's trying to go upmarket and downmarket at the same time.
Given the upmarket audience for the Caavo, the missing HDR is a deal breaker.
Whole Foods Market, an upmarket grocer, set up a shop in midtown in 2000.
Later that evening, across town in Mayfair, I visit an altogether more upmarket venue.
The 500 BEV will compete in the upmarket small car segment with BMW's Mini.
Like a wrist-band that would grant me entry to a particularly upmarket spa.
It looks like the cover image for an upmarket collection of thank-you cards.
Mestizo restaurant, next to Warren Street station, is a slightly more upmarket Mexican restaurant.
Until recently, the Korean brand offered two upmarket cars, the Genesis and the Equus.
Short Stories lures a crowd of 113-somethings in fancy heels and upmarket hoodies.
Last year, Ikea opened two "planning studios" in London, including one in upmarket Fitzrovia.
Of course, it's not unusual for Apple to charge a premium for upmarket technology products.
In upmarket malls, women can be seen selling aftershave, boldly spraying samples onto male hands.
Upmarket Dior and Chanel boutiques were among those vandalized by the protesters in early December.
John Lewis owns the department store chain of the same name and upmarket supermarket Waitrose.
Two weeks later, she had found herself a new house in an upmarket gated society.
As Geely continues to upgrade its lineup of cars it is moving upmarket, he said.
" He added, "Yuppies would only be too happy to turn the place into upmarket condominiums.
Troubled upmarket lingerie chain Agent Provocateur has also been hit by the luxury spending slowdown.
Home-sharing services, such as Airbnb and its upmarket cousin onefinestay, supplant hotels and agencies.
Both disappeared, six months apart, from the same upmarket suburb of the state capital Perth.
Police said JMB was behind the attack by five young Bangladeshis on the upmarket cafe.
Amazon bought Whole Foods, an upmarket U.S.-focused supermarket, for $13.4 billion in mid-2017.
Climbing upmarket Protecting groceries alone isn't enough and building new stores won't cut it anymore.
Five young men attacked the upmarket cafe on July 1, an assault claimed by Islamic State.
It launched its plant-based burger in a number of upmarket restaurants in America last year.
Increasingly, successful brands concentrate their outlets in a few upmarket malls, and do the rest online.
Knight Frank, an upmarket estate agent, says that rentals are outperforming sales in prime London properties.
Elliott, which has an office in London's upmarket Mayfair district, has become increasingly active in Britain.
Griffin has transformed the property into an upmarket landmark with elegant restaurants, bars and office space.
Though concierges are not extinct quite yet, those that remain tend to work in upmarket establishments.
These days, pickup trucks balance utility and comfort and are increasingly moving upmarket with luxury finishes.
It's bringing the full-size sedan segment upmarket...and doing a damned good job of it.
The property, on quiet Verdant Avenue, sits directly behind the upmarket Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club.
The first are lower-middle-class people, who are proud to shop at a more upmarket establishment.
In recent months, Deliveroo and Suppertime have been fighting in Sydney and Melbourne for the upmarket clientele.
Sales from the company's upmarket food business, its strongest performer in recent years, also went into reverse.
Yet in recent years provincial administrations have granted more permits to individuals and upmarket hotels to indulge.
DusitD2 is an upmarket cluster of shops and hotel facilities in the Kenyan capital, his company said.
X is more expensive—but not extraordinarily more expensive—than its predecessors, which are aimed upmarket anyway.
Le Manoir Richelieu was built at the turn of the 20th century to accommodate the upmarket guests.
LVMH says it will give Tiffany time and money, for example to renovate stores and push upmarket.
Its sleek styling, upmarket interior and a blizzard of amenities earn it my nod for runner-up.
The Italian's designs are key to Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti's aim to move the label further upmarket.
The Italian's designs are key to Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti's aim to move the label further upmarket.
A second, and perhaps more surprising, reason is the emergence of winemakers seeking to take rosé upmarket.
Well-heeled Nigerians can head to Mr Omikunle's store, Magnum Stitches, in the upmarket area of Lekki.
Today that address is an attractive brick building overlooking an upmarket bakery and a Starbucks coffee shop.
Waitress at an upmarket restaurant and bar, London The place where I worked was a fancy place.
On June 19, he entered the Ecuadorean Embassy in the upmarket Knightsbridge area of London seeking asylum.
His goal is to bring exercise to South Africans who can't afford $60 a month at upmarket chains.
However, Bailey successfully re-established its upmarket credentials and became CEO when Ahrendts left for Apple in 2014.
Burberry moved upmarket under Bailey, emphasizing its British heritage and launching new leather goods like the Bridle bag.
SPN Media Solutions' address is registered at law firm Stanisic's office in an upmarket neighborhood in central Belgrade.
The Church of England plans to launch a more upmarket version at a church near Hereford in 2020.
As a result, rents on upmarket homes in Jakarta have plummeted and enrolment at international schools has fallen.
Upmarket property agent Savills has produced a ranking of the most expensive cities to live and work in.
IHG signed an agreement on Thursday to rebrand and operate a portfolio of 13 upmarket hotels in Britain.
That didn't last long, and the company has spent the last several years working to move further upmarket.
That's important, given that Mercedes' most upmarket customers pick this car over any other SUV in their lineup.
We can likely expect to see something a bit like this from more upmarket airlines before too long.
Founded in 2005, Kingfisher Airlines was once one of India's most popular airlines, known for its upmarket service.
Chinese companies have been snapping up cutting-edge German technology to push upmarket and gain a global footprint.
The $42 per share offer represents a premium of 27 percent to the upmarket grocery chain's Thursday close.
"Modern luxury means being socially and environmentally responsible," said CEO Marco Gobbetti, who is taking Burberry more upmarket.
These caffeinated drinks are an upmarket evolution from the Red Bull-and-vodka drinks popularized at E.D.M. parties.
Casino's upmarket Monoprix chain in March became the first French retailer to agree to sell products on Amazon.
New boss Pietro Beccari, 13, took the Italian Fendi brand further upmarket and gave it a zestier feel.
It's unmistakably upmarket, with packaging in a muted shade of pink that's reminiscent of Gucci's latest perfume bottle.
Her shop on Davie Street, in a bustling area peppered by ramen joints, looks like an upmarket Starbucks.
An Apple a day Today Lai lives in a white, gated house in an upmarket nook of Kowloon.
But that belies the question of whom Sears is marketing to: discount shoppers or a more upmarket crowd?
They were also turned away by an upmarket seafood restaurant serving caviar and steamed clams amid security concerns.
Trying to move more upmarket, the company has leased a space five minutes' walk from Christie's former salesroom.
Kors said on Tuesday that it would buy the upmarket London-based shoemaker Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion.
Despite Phuket's increasingly upmarket positioning, it's still possible to enjoy an incredible meal here for a humble sum.
The American actor and director co-founded the first Nobu, an upmarket Japanese-Peruvian fusion restaurant, in 1994.
Even locations outside India are benefiting, says Jay Kantawala, who runs Wiyo Travel, an upmarket-travel agency in Mumbai.
Whether LSEV manufacturers manage to profitably march upmarket into higher-performance tiers of the market remains to be seen.
This week, the company launched a stunning showcase of its latest luxury project at upmarket London department store Harrods.
To cope with the slowdown, Chinese domestic brands have been raising prices and moving upmarket, hoping to boost margins.
WHEN Amazon announced in June that it would buy Whole Foods, an upmarket grocer, for $13.7bn, other firms shuddered.
The retailer's size, moves upmarket in the mainland, and growth elsewhere in Asia could justify a premium to rivals.
Even Daimler, which owns 4% of Aston and makes some of its engines, already owns upmarket brand Mercedes-Benz.
The administrators are also looking at options for the more upmarket Karen Millen brand, two of the sources said.
"Every deal was critical," Sellers said in an interview at Double Eagle's more upmarket current headquarters in Fort Worth.
A $13.7bn offer from ecommerce giant Amazon has whetted investors' appetites for bonds of upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods.
Vegemite, the bitter Australian yeast spread that strikes fear into the heart of non-Aussies, is seemingly going upmarket.
Asda stores would continue to trade under their own brand, separate from the more upmarket Sainsbury's, the sources said.
An hour or so earlier Banx & Ranx were sat comfortably in an upmarket supper club deep in the city.
The 18-year-old retailer is best known in Britain for its online-delivery partnership with upmarket grocer Waitrose.
The retailer JD.com, which had around 300 million buyers, has courted upmarket brands and cultivated a reputation for reliability.
Shoprite stores remained shut except for one in an upmarket area of the capital Abuja, a manager there said.
College entrance exams have been at the center of scandals from an upmarket New York City suburb to China.
The Fikirtepe project was an ambitious effort to transform a central working-class district into an upmarket residential area.
Anna, the manager at Auchan supermarket in Dakar's upmarket Mermoz area, told Reuters sales had doubled since last weekend.
It is well known among festival attendees that escorts ply their trade in the lobbies of Cannes' upmarket hotels.
The brand brings not only a different range of customers, but also hefty profit margins and an upmarket aura.
Today at a special event, Amazon unveiled a bevy of new Echo devices, including several aimed a bit upmarket.
Like other upmarket fashion retailers, Hugo Boss has been hit by a slowdown in luxury spending, particularly in China.
Even in the Middle Kingdom, upmarket vehicle sales hit 11% of the total, in line with the global proportion.
Mark went to the waiting room, which he knew of old, with its low classical music and upmarket magazines.
Designers flexed major draping and tailoring muscles — sophisticated upmarket techniques that fast-fashion brands will be hard-pressed to replicate.
Three properties are in the shopping district of Shibuya while the two others are in the upmarket area of Omotesando.
On sale for £80 ($99) in Harrods, an upmarket department store in London, it has a price tag to match.
On Wednesday, Marks & Spencer said it faced "stronger headwinds" in food and was slowing openings of its upmarket convenience stores.
Your article concludes that the ideal scenario for the incumbents would be for the Germans to "nudge each other upmarket".
When Amazon announced in June that it would buy Whole Foods, an upmarket grocer, for $13.7bn, supermarkets' share prices plunged.
Upmarket food and clothing retailer Woolworths last week cited difficult trading conditions as it flagged a lower full-year profit.
Burberry is in the midst of a strategy overhaul under CEO Marco Gobbetti aimed at taking the brand more upmarket.
This has led to the introduction of truffle fries in Singapore and salad bars in upmarket settings in Hong Kong.
The plan is to focus on research institutions and universities where the technology can prove itself, then to move upmarket.
Speaking with Reuters over dinner at an upmarket restaurant in the Romanian capital, Le Maire declined comment on specific deals.
And Oyo does offer more upmarket rooms on its platform at a pricier rate, such as its Oyo Townhouse hotels.
PARIS (Reuters) - Haider Ackermann is stepping down as artistic director at LVMH's upmarket shoes brand Berluti, LVMH said on Friday.
The rise of competitors after the World War Two, especially in Japan, saw Leica transform into a niche upmarket brand.
With that squared away, Hyundai decided to move upmarket in search of higher profit margins and clientele with deeper pockets.
Up to four intruders broke into the house in an upmarket neighborhood on Monday, Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said.
The British capital's Kensington is famous for its parks, upmarket shops and museums that attract millions of tourists each year.
Backup generators at upmarket hotels, which have become sanctuaries for Caracas's affluent, had begun running out of fuel by Saturday.
Grocery competition has increased since Amazon bought Whole Foods and started to cut prices at the upmarket grocer in August.
His departure followed several years of falling sales and a heavy debt load after he had pushed the brand upmarket.
He picked me up from the station and escorted me lovingly to a dimly lit, upmarket restaurant in the city.
The dirndl boom has become a mass phenomenon among teenagers and young adults, said Lola Paltinger, an upmarket dirndl designer.
Prices are upmarket, too: The Pepper & Wits supplement to address middle-age sleep loss costs $30 for a month's supply.
In Britain three of the fastest-growing grocers by market share in 2016 were Lidl, Aldi and Waitrose, an upmarket chain.
Amazon and Casino announced late on Monday that groceries from the French group's upmarket Monoprix supermarkets would be sold via Amazon.
On the first occasion, in 2003, they took over a set of upmarket apartments, calling for an end to government corruption.
This change is particularly evident in Perth's upmarket western suburbs, according to the state government, where house prices have been hit.
Authorities have intensified a hunt for militants after five young men stormed the upmarket restaurant popular with foreigners on July 1.
Most of them are in small and medium businesses, but Mixmax plans to use the new funding to expand upmarket, too.
Magomed, a businessman walking along the upmarket Stoleshnikov Lane in central Moscow, said Western countries were deliberately driving the rouble lower.
The French firm's cheap models and EV know-how complement FCA's pickups and upmarket brands such as Alfa Romeo and Maserati.
But in February Nordstrom, a department store, dropped the fashion line and Neiman Marcus, another upmarket retailer, stopped selling the jewellery.
If you've wandered around the leafy, upmarket squares of central London, you've probably walked down streets that the family trust owns.
The 57-acre market covers a significant portion of the city's Chuo district, nestled between the Sumida River and upmarket Ginza.
Amazon has also been increasing its presence in brick-and-mortar stores and bought upmarket grocer Whole Foods Market's 456 stores.
Upmarket British food store Waitrose said it was pulling one of its three own brand corned beef products while it investigated.
The militants targeted a building housing two upmarket eateries popular with foreigners, and several of those killed were Italian garment entrepreneurs.
It has to be able to compete with competitors such as BMW's ReachNow, which offers upmarket vehicles from BMW and Mini.
SINGAPORE — In the upmarket neighborhood of Bukit Timah, a minimalist and futuristic "carbon negative" house will soon hit the rental market.
The hotel is directly across from both upmarket Brookfield Place shopping and dining, and a lush park facing the Hudson River.
"Sometimes you have to treat yourself," he added, ordering a bowl of muesli and yoghurt at an upmarket Nairobi coffee shop.
The mansions and upmarket apartments are often left empty, merely serving a function as a "holding place" to keep finances safe.
Fortnum and Mason, London's upmarket grocery store, is one of them, and Hannan tunes certain cuts specifically for its famous hampers.
It was really such a nice restaurant, but it was a little bit too early and a little bit too upmarket.
Later, authorities confirmed that Zahran was one of the suicide bombers who targeted upmarket hotels in the island nation's capital, Colombo.
He still lives with his mother, albeit in a slightly more upmarket suburb, but still feels the pulse of the city.
If the same freedom of the air existed in Chukotka, prospects for the region's much-touted upmarket tourism would be transformed.
The upmarket grocer said Friday it would trial the service with 100 customers in London before expanding it early next year.
For Plus, the company's tier that includes more upmarket but not necessarily luxury homes, the average listing is $150 a night.
But a disastrous push upmarket led by Bruno Guillon, a new chief executive from the French luxury house Hermès, began in 2012.
The uplift in pricey handbag sales comes as Coach is attempting to move its brand upmarket through its higher-end 1941 collection.
Sales at the group's upmarket supermarket Waitrose rose 2 percent year-on-year, compared with the previous week's fall of 2.8 percent.
The employee-owned John Lewis Partnership, which also owns upmarket supermarket Waitrose, said he would step down from his role on Oct.
The upmarket tea brand was the fourth to reveal all the plantations it uses in India's Assam state for its black tea.
GM executives and analysts see Baojun's move upmarket as a natural progression as the brand seeks to stay relevant to younger consumers.
American Girl, a maker of upmarket dolls, discovered that typical consumers spend a fifth more in markets where super-consumers are clustered.
The Haçienda was a bit more upmarket than the other two, and less of the crowd was made up of grafters [criminals].
One such company is London-based Hostmaker, an upmarket Airbnb management service, which today is announcing $15 million in Series B funding.
N, the owner of hotels including Venice's landmark Cipriani, for a total of $23 billion to raise its profile in upmarket hospitality.
Casino's upmarket Monoprix chain in March became the first French retailer to agree to sell products through U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.
After carving out the industrial tyres business, it left Pirelli to focus on more upmarket tyres for brands such as Mercedes MERCBZ.
Sadly, the stag has more in common with the tourist-luring dinners of upmarket restaurants than the daily cuisine of Scotland's people.
The 28-year-old Pistorius is expected to serve his house arrest at his uncle's mansion in an upmarket suburb of Pretoria.
The property, located near Portobello Road in the upmarket Notting Hill district of London, will only accept the digital currency as payment.
Small one- or two-bedroom homes start at $130,000, and upmarket two-bedroom apartments in purpose-built blocks start at about $210,25.
Moore, like an upmarket version of Lina Lamont, in "Singin' in the Rain," lip-synchs convincingly to the sound of Renée Fleming.
The two shows are difficult to compare because Baselworld is a huge public event, while SIHH is much more selective and upmarket.
That means discretionary items will drive much of the growth in the Chinese retail titan – and the upmarket trend is already underway.
" Read more " The upmarket chain Ekoplaza introduced what it billed as the world's first plastic-free aisle, at a store in Amsterdam.
The model Binx Walton telegraphs more than a hint of that slatternly upmarket allure in a Tom Ford fall 2017 eyewear campaign.
I was 19 years old, and it was an extremely upmarket and chichi experience, and I was open-mouthed the whole time.
"The company quickly moved upmarket, into the aristocracy, and became known as the travel agents to the British Empire," Mr. Brendon said.
When he was detained he was staying with the rest of the wedding party at Moscow's upmarket Metropol hotel, the brother said.
On Tuesday, demonstrators gathered outside the McDonald&aposs in the upmarket Pueblo Libre neighborhood to protest poor working conditions in the country.
On Tuesday, demonstrators gathered outside the restaurant in the upmarket Pueblo Libre neighborhood, where the pair died, to protest poor working conditions.
LONDON — At the offices of Deliveroo, a food delivery start-up with headquarters in an upmarket neighborhood here, signs of activity are everywhere.
From his balcony in the upmarket residential neighborhood of Sarria-Sant Gervasi, Vives described his lone anti-independence as a "Smiling Counter-Revolution".
It's first thing in the morning and I've hauled myself across the city to the upmarket neighbourhood to meet Muñoz at his restaurant.
Five Bangladesh militants, most from wealthy, liberal families, stormed an upmarket restaurant on July 1 and murdered customers, before they were gunned down.
Stranger & Sons, set up in Goa a year ago, is one of a few domestic upmarket brands that are appearing in Indian bars.
A strong euro can act as a drag on profitability for Inditex, the owner of upmarket chain Massimo Dutti and underwear store Oysho.
However, competitor Rentify also occupies a more upmarket space, but charges a monthly fee and is fully-managed and provides a 'rent guarantee'.
This time the house is in Karuizawa, an upmarket resort town in the mountains of Nagano surrounded by ski slopes and hot springs.
At a press conference in an upmarket restaurant in Nairobi, the veteran opposition leader claimed that the preliminary results were a "complete fraud".
GO INTO a trendy pub and the beer list will be accompanied by tasting notes as purple as in any upmarket wine bar.
As time has gone on, ZeroCater has moved gradually upmarket, serving ever-larger organizations, while also expanding to new parts of the country.
Boutique hotels are usually small, stylishly-designed, upmarket hotels that have proved particularly popular with "millennials" - the tech-savvy generations born after 1980.
Rioters also set fire to an upmarket handbag store and two newsstands on the Champs Elysees, while scattered bonfires burned on the thoroughfare.
At a screening of Black Panther on Friday in Lekki, an upmarket district of Lagos, Nollywood stars mingled with TV personalities and locals.
Since 2013, Morrisons has outsourced logistics for its own online food business to Ocado, whose range includes products supplied by upmarket grocer Waitrose.
The 3.0-liter model looks more solid and mature than the cheaper 2.0, owing to a beefier grille and a more upmarket interior.
Sensing an opportunity, Necmi Asfuroglu, a local businessman, decided to build an upmarket hotel on land that he had owned since the 1990s.
"The majority of buyers are owner-occupiers, but sales for investment are also prevalent, particularly in the upmarket condo sector," Mr. Boyd said.
Fosun offered it a chance to accelerate a strategy focused on moving further upmarket and expanding abroad, notably in the booming Chinese market.
Upmarket swimwear brand Andie has specifically decided to avoid listing products on the platform, opting instead to sell exclusively on its own site.
The next day, Amazon unveiled plans to buy upmarket grocer Whole Foods for $13bn, in a deal expected to upend US food retail.
For that matter, the upmarket clientele in the Midtown Village enclave casually referred to by all as the Gayborhood looked anything but austere.
News of Tesco's new concept sent shares in upmarket food retailer Marks & Spencer down as much as 4.5% on Wednesday on competition fears.
Mezze is a mostly upmarket neighborhood, where the main public and university hospitals are situated, as well as a number of foreign embassies.
"This industry for three decades or more has always been moving upmarket," said Dennis Gallant, a senior analyst at consulting firm Aite Group.
Daimler also owns Car2Go, a short-term car rental service; Blacklane, an upmarket ride-hailing app; and MyTaxi, Europe's largest taxi-hailing service.
The company has previously acknowledged that it misread the upmarket trend of athleisure, instead relying on copious logos and basic styles of sportswear.
Apart from Zara, which makes up two thirds of sales, its brands include younger fashion chain Pull&Bear and upmarket label Massimo Dutti.
Rioters also set fire to an upmarket handbag store and badly damaged Fouquet's restaurant before setting fire to the famous brasserie's canvas awning.
She makes herself known where these identities collide in a calamity of Coach bags, upmarket loungewear, and entitled dispositions toward luxury and ease.
Burberry plans to move upmarket by focusing on leather goods and fashion and cutting sales to non-luxury stores, initially in the United States.
In the Britain, Ocado sells products supplied by upmarket grocer Waitrose and also has its own distribution agreement with Morrisons, Britain's fourth largest supermarket.
That's why owning a sales intelligence platform important as WeWork rapidly moves upmarket to serve Fortune 500 customers like Microsoft or Bank of America.
On July 1, militants killed 20 hostages, most of them foreigners, in an assault on a cafe in an upmarket area of the capital.
Xiaomi has also attempted to move upmarket and raise the price of its flagship devices, while siphoning off its cheaper models into sub-brands.
Last year's $1.8 billion takeover of Tumi added an upmarket marque to its portfolio, alongside outdoorsy High Sierra backpacks and budget offerings like Kamiliant.
OTB - which stands for Only The Brave - owns a string of street and upmarket European brands including Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni and Paula Cademartori.
Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti's plans to take the British brand upmarket will mean no sales or operating margin growth for more than two years.
Videos uploaded on social media showed wreaths of the gas enveloping Abuja's streets in the upmarket Maitama district, near the landmark Transcorp Hilton hotel.
Starting an upmarket clothing line for children is a gamble not many fashion designers take but for French designer Stéphanie Lemaire, it paid off.
Melanie Travis, co-founder and CEO of upmarket swimwear brand Andie, who has elected to sell directly to customers through her company's own platform.
But If you're used to Chevy and GMC pricing, you might endure a little sticker shock with this upmarket, full-size, near-luxury truckster.
Crest, traditionally associated with upmarket properties in southern England, is among housebuilders that have suffered from a Brexit-driven drop in some house prices.
Smoke rises from a building in Knightsbridge, central London, as London Fire Brigade responded to a call of a fire in this upmarket location.
That said, competitor Rentify also occupies a more upmarket space, but charges a monthly fee and is fully-managed and provides a 'rent guarantee'.
"As they were well educated and young, they could blend into and operate in the upmarket diplomatic enclave without evoking red flags," he said.
On Wednesday, the supermarket, Ekoplaza, an upmarket chain, introduced what it billed as the world's first plastic-free aisle in a store in Amsterdam.
It has brought new life to a once-neglected area of Detroit, with retail shops, upmarket restaurants and handsome new or recently renovated housing.
The vote made way for Corey and other partners to convert a turn-of-the-century electric plant into an upmarket restaurant named Edison.
Items such as Birkin handbags from Hermes, watches and other valuables were carted out of the condominium at the upmarket Pavilion Residences, police said.
Mr. Hetzler's gallery in the upmarket Mayfair district was presenting a show of seven 1980s "Spiegelbilder" (Mirror Paintings) by Albert Oehlen, from private collections.
Rumors of a shopping platform that would fall under the branding umbrella of Le Bon Marché, LVMH's upmarket department store, have swirled for months.
Cryptocurrency scams are using images of celebrities and upmarket London addresses to hoodwink consumers into parting with cash, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has said.
New competitors, such as eMachines, had no qualms about outsourcing their components, driving down PC prices significantly and putting upmarket competitors in a lurch.
The Bouncers I'm talking about here isn't the slightly more upmarket series also called Bouncers which was broadcast on Channel 4 back in 2013.
The man, identified as Chen Zhu, 45, was in his car when he was attacked in an upmarket area of the port city of Karachi.
Stronger Position in Luxury Segment: We consider Accor's strategy of moving more upmarket will make its business model more competitive relative to disruptive hospitality operators.
The allegations came by way of the more upmarket Guardian, which claimed News of the World had deleted crucial last voicemails from the slain teenager.
But Capital One needed something to help customers comparison shop before purchases are made, according to Joseph Poellnitz, who runs the bank's upmarket cards division.
The New Delhi case was sparked by a random inspection of beer bottles at a drinking spot in an upmarket New Delhi neighbourhood in 2016.
The New Delhi case was sparked by a random inspection of beer bottles at a drinking spot in an upmarket New Delhi neighborhood in 2016.
O. InterContinental, which focuses on business customers, reported a 7 percent rise in annual operating profit on Tuesday along with plans to go further upmarket.
It had been an upmarket brothel before the war; Nancy Balfour, the United States editor, shocked a taxi driver by asking to be taken there.
"Initially we focused on small business but now our biggest customers have a couple of hundred employees so we are going upmarket," Sasaki told TechCrunch.
Bartleby was shown around one newly renovated workspace; with its comfy chairs and pool table, it might have been the lounge of an upmarket hotel.
In 2008, upmarket menswear designer John Varvatos opened a boutique in the Bowery space the club once occupied and preserved one original, graffiti'd-up wall.
Mr Speth's decision to invest in upmarket saloon cars, a contracting part of the market where the Germans have a stranglehold, looks a costly mistake.
James said Windsor, an upmarket town in south-east England, had a very small homeless population of about 10-15 people at any given time.
That combination of upmarket attitude coupled with social responsibility filters into the dining scene, which leans heavily on organic, fair trade, and locally sourced products.
Known for its upmarket department stores, Stockmann has been hit by consumers' shift towards online shopping, prompting the company to cut costs and shed assets.
Five young men killed 22 people, most of them foreigners, in an attack on an upmarket Dhaka cafe on July 1 claimed by Islamic State.
Oyo's business has ballooned beyond budget hotel rooms to office-sharing, student accommodation, high-end Airbnb-style "homes," upmarket business hotels, and even magazine publishing.
I was soon given this special edition leather pouch, which looked and felt very luxurious and contained goodies from upmarket British brand The White Company.
When asked by Reuters about Shoprite's push into upmarket convenience food, Woolworths told Reuters that it had an "incredibly valuable emotional connection" with its customers.
The imposing boulevard, lined with designer stores, upmarket restaurants and some of the most expensive apartments in Spain, is about 5,000 miles from Bento Ribeiro.
As it gained popularity, the company captured growth in frontier market segments and also expanded upmarket to meet the needs of higher-performance game makers.
DHAKA (Reuters) - All 20 victims of an attack on an upmarket cafe in Dhaka were foreigners, the spokesman for the Bangladesh army said on Saturday.
The arrival of the CLA-Class and A-Class has allowed Mercedes to push the C-Class upmarket, but it's a better vehicle as a result.
In an upmarket shopping mall in Sha Tin, scores of shops were shuttered, including clothing retailer H&M as well as luxury brands Chanel and Dior.
The Robert Parker Wine Advocate and Michelin have already been working together since 2016 in Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau on upmarket wine and dining events.
Police and security personnel blocked her supporters from spilling into the street to stop her car as it left her house in Seoul's upmarket Gangnam neighbourhood.
The world's biggest coffee chain is making its first foray into the home of espresso coffee by opening an upmarket roastery in a central Milan square.
Ocado, whose range also includes products supplied by upmarket grocer Waitrose, posted a 13.8 percent rise in gross retail sales in the 12 weeks to Feb.
Huddled together at the upmarket Place des Victoires, straddling the 1st and 2nd arrondissements, the group gathered around 26-year-old Elsa as she reassured them.
But there is a much better explanation: the well-off are more likely to stay in upmarket hotels which traditionally regard internet as an optional extra.
Rioters also set fire to an upmarket handbag store and two news-stands on the Champs Elysees avenue while scattered bonfires burned on the iconic thoroughfare.
Protests in December saw some of the worst street violence in Paris in decades with rioters rampaging through upmarket neighborhoods, smashing store windows and burning cars.
"Patients have been asking me for medicine for their heart conditions, blood pressure" said Ahmed Ali, who runs his pharmacy in an upmarket suburb of Cairo.
Ocado will then cease selling goods from Waitrose, another upmarket food retailer, which has supplied Ocado with posh nosh since it started home deliveries in 2002.
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Hundreds of Park's flag-waving supporters gathered outside her home in Seoul's upmarket Gangnam district to see her off, and later gathered outside the prosecution office.
In Karlaplan, there's a high concentration of clothes from H&M's more upmarket lines such as "Trend" and "Premium Quality", which is usually only available online.
But the move upmarket resulted in retail revenue in its core British business falling 215 percent to 21 billion pounds in the six months to Oct.
LONDON (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency scams are using images of celebrities and upmarket London addresses to hoodwink consumers into parting with cash, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has said.
Bar and restaurant operator The Breakfast Group planned on naming their new upmarket rum bar The Plantation, before they were called out by an activist group.
And it is one of dozens of churches across Quebec that have been transformed — into university reading rooms, luxury condominiums, cheese emporiums and upmarket fitness centers.
Mr. Gobbetti intends to take the brand more upmarket to the realm of rivals like Gucci or Dior, with higher prices and profit margins to match.
But civilization and its refinements have gained a foothold; tobacco chewers are spitting their chaw juices into upmarket iced tea bottles and farmers are raising llamas.
Movies first came to Mumbai in 1886 when the Lumière brothers screened their short films at the city's upmarket Watson's Hotel, (now called the Esplanade Mansion).
Today, the trees have long since been uprooted and replaced by a shopping mall and upmarket homes, driving a sharp drop in production of Kenya's premium beans.
It started in Mitte, he explained, a now relatively upmarket neighborhood that the Financial Times recently pegged as a new hotspot for bankers looking to escape Brexit.
In the short term, Bernstein analysts reckon AmazonFresh's focus on London and its upmarket bias could mean Sainsbury's is hit the most out of the Big Four.
Promoting a short supply chain and seasonal eating has been fashionable in Italy for years, promoted by the Slow Food movement and upmarket food hall chain Eataly.
But still, it's hard to get away from the notion that Volkswagen is going upmarket by borrowing heavily from one of the many brands in its stable.
At its upmarket grocery chain Waitrose, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro boosted sales of Brazilian-style steak and Brazilian wine, lifting weekly sales by 2.1 percent.
Kika/Leiner has a market share of around 20 percent in its home market, targeting upmarket as well as price-conscious customers with a broad product range.
Sales at Waitrose, the group's upmarket grocery chain, rose 5.6 percent year-on-year, helped by customers buying more ice cream and salad in the hotter weather.
The gunmen stormed the upmarket restaurant in the diplomatic zone late on Friday, before killing 20 hostages, including at least nine Italians, seven Japanese and an American.
While the athletes stay in the Olympic athletes' village at the Pyeongchang Games, most of the rest of the North Korean delegation is staying at upmarket hotels.
Berliners got acquainted with Lode & Stijn's laidback yet upmarket style through pop-ups, from holding a decadent brunch at Silo to serving up wild boar at Schlachtfest.
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's Spencer's Retail Ltd will buy upmarket grocery chain Nature's Basket from Godrej Industries for 3 billion rupees ($42.76 million), the companies said on Friday.
Targeting upmarket as well as price-conscious customers with a broad product range, Kika/Leiner has a market share of around 20 percent in its home market.
That's greater than Tesla's upmarket Model S (which gets more than 300 miles on a single charge) and Chevy's mass-market Bolt (a range of 238 miles).
As well as clothes there is a burgeoning market for cosmetics without alcohol-based ingredients, and for upmarket holidays for Muslims at hotels with private swimming-pools.
The attack happened on a beach by Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, an upmarket property just one stop from the Magic Kingdom on Walt Disney World's monorail.
"We see the fast-growing upper middle class driving strong consumption growth for our upmarket cognac brands," the company's Chief Financial Officer Luca Marotta said last month.
At upmarket fashion chain Reiss, banker Daniel Radford, 45, said he wouldn't shop just anywhere for a bargain but "depending on the brand, it can be important".
As a result, Mercedes has been on a product offensive to give its cars a more upmarket appeal, including the revival of the Maybach and Pullman brands.
The bribes also came in the form of more than $14,000 for one company official spent at the upmarket Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, the indictment said.
In the UK, skrei fish are sold in upmarket stores like Whole Foods, Selfridges, and Harrods or served by chefs including Michel Roux Jr. and Monica Galetti.
LVMH, behind fashion and accessories labels like Louis Vuitton, makes 13% of its sales in France alone, and already owns upmarket Parisian department store Le Bon Marche.
In a bid to retain its leading industry position, the discount retailer's new boss is driving hard into the upmarket, higher-margin niche dominated by rival Woolworths.
In addition to Kate Spade, a label that operates at the more affordable end of the retail spectrum, it has bought the upmarket shoe brand Stuart Weitzman.
Uncle Ho, an upmarket Vietnamese restaurant, attracted ire from the local Vietnamese community in April for its explicit reference to North Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
And while Cloete certainly wasn't "hounded" from her home, she did choose to stay with friends for a while, before moving "somewhere more upmarket," as she told reporters.
"Demand is overwhelming and black T-shirts were sold out within half an hour," said a sales representative at Uniqlo's flagship store in Bangkok's upmarket Central World mall.
The move, which follows an initial co-operation between Casino's upmarket Monoprix supermarket chain and Amazon in Paris, could re-ignite speculation of a bigger deal later on.
The union representing Harrods waiters and kitchen staff believes the Qatari owner of the upmarket London department store retains up to 75 percent of the service charge. bit.
In a bid to retain its leading industry position, the discount retailer's new boss Pieter Englebrecht is driving hard into higher-margin, upmarket products dominated by rival Woolworths.
Michael Ward, the managing director at Harrods, the upmarket department store located in London's Knightsbridge, told CNBC that potential employees were no longer coming through conventional employment agencies.
Mike Ashley's Sports Direct International Plc, footwear specialist Dune and franchisee Rebecca Feng are leading the race to buy the collapsed upmarket fashion and footwear company LK Bennett.
Deutsche's share of the German market—adding its upmarket "blue" Deutsche Bank brand to the more basic Postbank—is around 11%, according to Autonomous Research; Commerzbank's is 8%.
The latest incident was the deadliest car bomb attack since the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attacked Bogota's upmarket El Nogal social club in 2003, killing 36.
"There are only classification targets...but no punitive measures for residents who disobey the instructions," said Yang Kun, a city management official in the upmarket Finance Street district.
Novare was behind the construction of a mall that opened in upmarket Lagos district Lekki in August - an $83 million project with 22,000 square metres of retail space.
Today the prominent corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and West 20053th Street houses a Whole Foods, an upmarket grocery chain, and life expectancy is up to 76.2 years.
So far he has done "small" deals with American Girl, Gap and Nordstrom, the upmarket department store, which sells Converse high-top trainers bearing a design by Autumn.
SHOPS SHUTTERED In an upmarket shopping mall in Sha Tin, scores of shops were shuttered, including clothing retailer H&M as well as luxury brands Chanel and Dior.
Problems with security were under the spotlight this week when two Israeli men were gunned down inside an upmarket Mexico City shopping mall in an apparent gangland hit.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - High-end lingerie sales are outpacing China's generally downbeat luxury market, and heating up competition between international brands and local rivals looking to go upmarket.
Not only does Tesla sell a fairly upmarket vehicle, Albertine said the company continues to get revenue from its drivers through over-the-air updates and remote upgrades.
Mercedes-Benz became the top-selling luxury car brand again thanks to an emphasis on upmarket design which appealed to youthful buyers thanks to large digital display screens.
In a bid to bring the brand more upmarket, management last year put an end to the Buy One Get Three Free promotions that made the brand famous.
Targeting upmarket as well as price-conscious customers with a broad range of products, Kika/Leiner has a market share of around 20 percent in its home market.
Situated in the leafy upmarket neighborhood of Holland Park, the property is a prime location, though at the time of purchase the structure was in very poor condition.
Analysts have added that Amazon, whose acquisition of U.S. upmarket food retail chain Whole Foods shook up the global supermarket sector this year, may also eye European alliances.
The decision is a blow for Massmart's ambitions to expand further into the grocery market, which is dominated by industry giants such discounter Shoprite and upmarket retailer Woolworths.
Even the title, "Slav," attracted ire, with the black activist Marilou Craft musing in Urbania, a cultural magazine, that it evoked an upmarket spa while erasing black suffering.
Kalau lives in a small wooden stilt-house perched on the rocky shores of Ela Beach, around a kilometer from an upmarket resort that hosted numerous APEC delegations.
International jihadists flocked to Sudan in that period, among them Osama bin Laden, who bought a house in an upmarket Khartoum district and invested in agriculture and construction.
Stephan von Dassel, the mayor who represents the Green party, is attempting to combat prostitution on Kurfürstenstrasse, an upmarket street in Mitte with a history of sex workers.
The décor was standard upmarket beach-resort fare: coral tile floors, a soaring roof with ceiling fan, plain cream-colored walls and upholstery in tones of sandy gold.
Burning Sun, a popular nightclub in the upmarket Gangnam area of Seoul, may have been such a refuge for Seungri, a member of global chart-topper Big Bang.
Though upmarket streetwear — hoodies, sneakers, skateboards, ball caps, sanitation-worker boiler suits — is the ostensible lure for these hunter-gatherers, the wares are just part of the draw.
The Couleur gallery, in Stockholm's upmarket Ostermalm district, was holding an exhibition of work by Dali containing around 10 pieces by the Spanish artist, news agency TT said.
At least 21 people were killed when militants from the terror group laid siege at the DusitD2 compound, an upmarket cluster of shops and hotel facilities in Nairobi.
Deals this year have included Accor taking a 50 percent stake in U.S. hospitality mogul Sam Nazarian's upmarket SBE Entertainment Group and the acquisition of Chile's Atton Hoteles.
The commercial boom can be seen on the street across from the Baitussalam Mosque in the upmarket Defence area, which has turned into a veritable religious shopping strip.
Authorities ramped up the hunt for militants across the country after five young men stormed an upmarket restaurant popular with foreigners in the nation's capital and took hostages.
The Emirate of Sharjah announced the death in a statement Tuesday after London's Metropolitan Police were called to a residence in the upmarket Knightsbridge area shortly after 10.30 a.m.
Starbucks and other major coffee brands are trying to capture a growing market for people who are prepared to pay a premium for quality coffees in upmarket boutique cafes.
El Caldo Parao is a two-table restaurant inside a shipping container, though the place is hardly the kind of upmarket, recycled-chic space that so often indicates gentrification.
Folli, an upmarket Greek brand with a distinct peach curvy logo, has been in the spotlight after a hedge fund raised concerns over its financial statements for last year.
The Latinobarómetro poll suggests that criminal cases filed against Fernando Karadima, the priest in charge of El Bosque, an upmarket parish in Santiago, triggered an exodus from the church.
It's a sunny afternoon in Singapore's upmarket Bukit Timah district, but the lights in the makeshift classroom glow a fluorescent white above dozens of empty school tables and chairs.
Elite schools help attract the rich to upmarket developments, which explains why some of the local partners of the British brands that are piling into China are property companies.
Other investors in the round include Yes VC, and angel investors Nick Evans, chairman of upmarket cycling gear firm Rapha and Oren Peleg formerly the CEO of Fitness First.
The owner of Australian upmarket department chain David Jones has operations in 11 African countries outside South Africa including Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Mozambique.
A human chain in the upmarket Hong Kong island mall of Cityplaza, in Taikoo Shing, turned into face-to-face conflict with police, interrupting skating on the ice rink.
Kohl's was down 3.8 percent after the department store operator's quarterly profit missed estimates, while its upmarket rival Macy's rose 6.6 percent after its profit came in above expectations.
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While VW sold almost 10 million vehicles last year ranging from upmarket Audis and Porsches to cheaper Skodas and Seats, it built just 67,000 fully or part-electric cars.
The company's in-patient facilities serve meals from upmarket Moscow restaurant Pushkin and all of its prices are pegged to the euro benchmarks at clinics in Europe and Israel.
The militants killed 20 people, most of them foreigners, inside an upmarket restaurant in Dhaka before security forces stormed the building and ended a 12-hour standoff on Saturday.
But if you live near a Waitrose, your home could be worth £38,666 more than equivalent houses in a similar area without a branch of the upmarket food store.
Burberry's performance has recently lagged that of many of its competitors and the UK label is in the midst of an overhaul as it looks to move more upmarket.
Such is the visceral resistance to religion in Quebec that hundreds of empty churches have been transformed for other uses, including as fitness centers, cheese emporiums and upmarket condominiums.
Le 25bis is an exquisitely designed, upmarket home-away-from-home for autonomous travelers who don't need 24/7 service, conveniently located to the region's most famous Champagne houses.
Meraz-Baca said that while the upmarket side of San Francisco exists, the city still has an entirely different side, and living on her entry-level salary is possible.
And, as Mengniu and its rival move overseas and upmarket, they need better ways to keep products chilled through production and transport, which rich-world firms can teach them.
But after a 22.3,21783 percent share price rise since a late-27 market debut, arguably none is looking as frothy as upmarket tonic water and mixers maker Fevertree Drinks.
"We think this investment will be helpful as we continue to march upmarket and serve these larger companies," said John Collison, who co-founded the company with his brother, Patrick.
"We have spent a fortune making this place nice and we feel we need this dress code, much in the same way some upmarket restaurants won't allow sportswear," he said.
Tsacheva has denied any wrongdoing and asked the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the terms on which she had acquired a specious apartment in an upmarket Sofia neighborhood last year.
Marks & Spencer, an upmarket chain, does not want to whisk bad publicity: it has a "100% free-range egg policy", comprising both whole eggs and those used in prepared products.
The upmarket tracksuits, hoodies and other willfully subversive signifiers of survivalist chic that were shown for spring at Vetements and Chloé, among others, have made their way stateside in force.
Kiely Rowan Plc ceased trading on Monday and shut its two London stores in Chelsea and Covent Garden, and its Irish retail outlet in the upmarket Kildare Village shopping outlet.
Our lives collide on Tuesday morning as we make our daily commute; she picks me up on her way to Saket, an upmarket district in South Delhi where she works.
The collection was a rock and grunge-infused take on the traditional "preppy" styles - clothing associated with upmarket U.S. schools and universities - that have come to be associated with Hilfiger.
Most players in the wellness industry are targeted toward more affluent consumers, but Aloha's placement in Target raises expectations that it can appeal to upmarket as well as downmarket buyers.
Some companies are now using synthetic biology to replace more upmarket molecules from the same crude oil which end up in fragrances and food additives with far more added value.
Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe, was accused of assaulting a 20-year-old South African model with an extension cord at an upmarket hotel in Johannesburg.
For this upmarket event that takes place on the grounds of the Addis Ababa Golf Club, I switch guides and I'm accompanied by an artist, writer and educator, Amira Ali.
Rhode was one of 30 guests who paid 30 pounds to tuck into dishes such as pheasant and chicken pastilla and mince pie brownies in north London's upmarket Stoke Newington.
How the attack unfolded Around midnight Thursday, an armed suspect forced his way into the Resorts World Manila, an upmarket hotel and casino complex near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Tay said he made five deals between January and the end of March in the upmarket district of Ardmore Park, each worth at least 8.5 million Singapore dollars ($6.1 million).
Former boss Claus-Dietrich Lahrs had taken the German label more upmarket as the luxury market boomed, opening more than 400 stores worldwide and putting a bigger focus on womenswear.
MILAN, May 11 (Reuters) - Italian merchant bank Tamburi Investment Partners plans to list handbag maker Furla and upmarket food chain Eataly next year, it said in a presentation on Wednesday.
LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - John Lewis Partnership , owner of Britain's biggest department store chain and upmarket grocer Waitrose, maintained its full-year profit guidance after reporting relatively strong Christmas trading.
It shares this with the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, for example, but not with much of Mayfair and Belgravia, upmarket London districts near Soho that Dr Quercia brands sonically "chaotic".
The label, seen as quintessentially British, began as a small shop in the upmarket area of Holland Park in London where Kidston sold homewares and clothing made from vintage fabrics.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Starbucks will open its first store in South Africa next month in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank, the coffee giant's local licensee Taste Holdings said on Thursday.
Aldi North most recently said it had just over 4,800 stores in Europe, in addition to more than 460 more upmarket Trader Joe's stores it operates in the United States.
The Aylesbury battle is seen as typical of tensions arising from inner-city regeneration schemes accused of forcing out low-income residents to build upmarket homes to sell to newcomers.
An American and a Briton were among the people killed when armed militants targeted the DusitD2 compound Tuesday, an upmarket cluster of shops and hotel facilities in the Kenyan capital.
Items such as Birkin handbags from Hermes, jewelry, watches and other valuables were carted out of the condominium at the upmarket Pavilion Residences, in the pre-dawn hours, police said.
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Mr. Gobbetti, a veteran of the luxury industry, became chief executive last year, and has since unveiled an ambitious plan to overhaul company practices and take the business more upmarket.
Stacey Cartwright will become deputy chairwoman of Harvey Nichols alongside Sir Dickson Poon, the chairman and Hong Kong billionaire who bought the famous upmarket central London store in 1991. 8.
Pakistan's military is one of the biggest real estate developers in the country, and it owns or runs some of the most upmarket residential areas in all major urban centers.
Two USB ports and buttons for the heated back seats are found by dropping the armrest — an upmarket touch that's hard to use when someone is seated in the middle.
Ralph Lauren makes a quarter of its goods in China, according to estimates by Wells Fargo, while the number for the upmarket outerwear company Canada Goose is around 10 percent.
The employee-owned business, which comprises department stores as well as upmarket grocery chain Waitrose, also said that Paula Nickolds, managing director of the department stores, would leave in February.
There's a food delivery app for every day of the week, ranging from the more upmarket Deliveroo, which works with restaurants that don't always deliver, to old favourites like Menulog.
Islamist militants killed 2300 people, most of them foreigners, inside an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital, before security forces stormed the building and ended a 183-hour standoff on Saturday.
Islamist militants killed 21971 people, most of them foreigners, inside an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital, before security forces stormed the building and ended a 12-hour standoff on Saturday.
William Sitwell, who edited the magazine produced by upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose, was responding to a pitch from freelance journalist Selene Nelson about a series of features covering vegan cooking.
John Lewis said sales at its upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain rose 19.2 percent in the same week, although the figure was heavily distorted by the fall of Christmas and new year.
The company could also delay or reduce planned refurbishment work at its Millennium Hotels in the upmarket London areas of Mayfair and Knightsbridge as it looks to manage costs more closely.
A 286-year-old film director from the upmarket suburb of New Cairo, he spends long hours out on shoots or editing in the studio, and regularly resorts to ordering takeout.
Gas provider CNG Fuels said the upmarket grocery chain had added 10 trucks to its fleet, all powered by renewable biomethane gas, which emits 153.613 percent less carbon dioxide than diesel.
LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, said it is considering trialing an upmarket convenience store under the 'Tesco finest' banner but has not disclosed when a pilot would start.
"She could go for something lavish and romantic by Marchesa or upmarket luxe by Ralph & Russo," says Alexander, who also speculates something a little more informal could be in the cards.
The Lamantin Beach Hotel, a sprawling upmarket complex favored by Europeans, added armed guards and introduced vehicle searches in November after attacks in Paris by Islamic State gunmen killed 130 people.
Demonstrators released live cockroaches, crickets and locusts into two London branches of upmarket chain Byron Hamburgers on Friday, accusing the company of having "entrapped (staff)" in a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Unilever has made 29 acquisitions since 2015, mostly in the personal-care division formerly headed by Mr Jope, including upmarket beauty products like Dermalogica and subscription services like Dollar Shave Club.
Inbound M&A interest in British assets continued apace with French property group Fonciere des Regions buying 14 upmarket hotels in Britain from Starwood Capital for 858 million pounds ($1.2 billion).
The group has often returned surplus cash to investors, but disappointed them last year when it said it won't pay out any additional capital after announcing plans to go more upmarket.
The brand is also closing some stores and overhauling others, as well as withdrawing from some U.S. department stores which don't fit with its attempt to build a more upmarket image.
New Delhi-based Innov8 offers upmarket shared workspaces, where a private office costs as high as 64,999 rupees ($947.24) a month, while a desk is sold for 9,999 rupees per month.
The upmarket grocer last year removed from sale one of its corned beef brands after a newspaper investigation found it might contain meat linked to slave labour on farms in Brazil.
Margins at its upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose were squeezed in 24.5 as the group tried to keep prices competitive while costs rose due to a fall in the value of sterling.
During our first dinner, in an upmarket restaurant, we were jolted by the whoosh of a departing rocket, its engine thrumming for seconds before it launched, apparently from a nearby park.
Italian merchant bank Tamburi investment partners, whose assets include companies such as Moncler and Ferrari, bought a 20 percent stake in the upmarket food chain in 2014 through investment vehicle Clubitaly.
The owner of upmarket chains such as Ritz Carlton and Sheraton says the developments will lift its number of hotels on the continent to more than 200, with 27,000-plus rooms.
Yuwan Hu, an analyst at Daxue Consulting in Shanghai, said that competition from Luckin is also prompting Starbucks to go more upmarket by focusing more on its Reserve brand in China.
At Springfields, an upmarket residential block in Sarjapur with tennis courts, manicured lawns and sparkling pools, residents buy 50 truckloads of water - about 300,103 liters - a day to keep everything running.
She explains she was arrested at home with an eighth of weed after a nuisance neighbor in her upmarket street told police she was wandering around the house with an axe.
The newer, more upmarket New York label Baja East sells a brand of laidback luxury in which the baja hoodie plays a recurring role, in various seasonal luxury (read expensive) fabrics.
Total # of customers in your base Note, this number may increase over time if you're moving upmarket — enterprise customers generally require more resources to retain than small to mid-sized companies.
Monoprix is one of France's best-known store chains, with a network of nearly 800 upmarket stores in more than 250 cities and is a key contributor to Casino group's profit.
But, on a sunny afternoon in the city's upmarket Victoria Island business district, a clutch of men celebrated with steaming coffee that cost 503,250 naira ($21) for a three-cup brew.
Gold-infused organic honey from the rolling hills of Evoia in the east is finding favor with upmarket clients in the United States, London, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates.
One Uber vehicle and two other taxis were torched last week in the upmarket Sandton district and on Wednesday three Taxify vehicles were set alight in the Pretoria suburb of Sunnyside.
Even before the Covid-19 outbreak, there were lingering concerns about the potential growth from selling Stella Artois and the unfortunately named Corona as upmarket brands to Asia's emerging middle class.
I drop into an upmarket holistic shop and purchase mushroom powder, liquid turmeric elixir, hand cream, lip balm, beetroot and ginger tea, local honey body scrub, and rose petal body wash.
Jimmy Choo could give Michael Kors — once the runaway leader of the "accessible luxury market" that has been vulnerable to declining sales — a new avenue for growth with its upmarket aura.
HBC, which also operates U.S. department store Saks and the upmarket Lord & Taylor department store chain, bought Germany's leading department store from Metro for 2.8 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in 2015.
Accor bought a 50 percent stake in U.S. mogul Sam Nazarian's upmarket SBE Entertainment Group last month, and has expressed an interest in buying a minority stake in Air France KLM .
There were some loud, angry scuffles between residents and police as arrests were made in the upmarket shopping district of Causeway Bay, to the east of Central, but no major clashes.
At the top end of the market, John Lewis, Britain's biggest department store chain which also runs upmarket grocery brand Waitrose, saw sales in the week before Christmas soar 36 percent.
The group has often returned surplus cash to investors, but disappointed them last year when it said it won't pay out any additional capital after announcing plans to go more upmarket.
Checkers has been upgrading its stores and introducing premium, healthy brands and high-end convenience foods in order to compete in the more upmarket, higher-margin niche dominated by rival Woolworths.
The label, seen as quintessentially British, began as a small shop in the upmarket area of Holland Park in London where its founder sold homewares and clothing made from vintage fabrics.
Their deal, completed in August, signaled the end of Ocado's supply contract with upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose in September 2020 and the start of M&S' first grocery home delivery service.
Startups targeting simpler AV applications — like Voyage offering rides in retirement communities and May Mobility filling gaps in public transit — should abandon dreams of moving upmarket and just master their niches.
It won't be a top seller for the company, then, but it represents an intriguing upmarket move for the Android One program and a potentially compelling combination of software, hardware, and price.
Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, a deputy director at the Rapid Action Battalion force, told Reuters the foreigner escaped after more than 100 commandos launched an operation to secure the upmarket cafe in Dhaka.
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 6.73 (Reuters) - South Africa's upmarket retailer Woolworths Holdings expects first-half profit to be between 2.5 percent to 7.5 percent lower, the company said in a trading update on Thursday.
Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa was sitting in the passenger seat of his Range Rover in the parking lot of an upmarket shopping center in suburban Dallas when the assassins came for him.
Luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy has agreed to buy Belmond, the owner of hotels including Venice's landmark Cipriani, for $3.2 billion including debt to increase its presence in upmarket hospitality.
Having listened to much of Audio-Technica's incredibly expansive portfolio of headphones, I have no problem with the company moving upmarket and trying to prove its credentials among the most committed audiophiles.
Unlike the brand's other recent reveal — the upmarket ATH-ADX5000 (which comes with its own suitcase!) — all these newly released models are affordably priced, but still have quality-conscious listeners in mind.
PARIS (Reuters) - Casino's upmarket Monoprix supermarket chain is working to expand its partnership with E-commerce giant Amazon in France, following a successful launch in Paris, Monoprix's Chief Executive said on Thursday.
But an IPO that valued the upmarket Swedish carmaker on a par with Audi—which makes nearly 20163m cars a year, three times as many as Volvo produces—always looked a stretch.
By the time Meka and his family arrived in the area it was no longer so affordable, with upmarket developments encircling the dump and high-rise construction visible in the near distance.
Independent retail analyst Richard Hyman said the move was a way of protecting the Inditex brands, which in addition to Zara include the upmarket Massimo Dutti label and teen fashion chain Bershka.
In April Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley, a bank, said the next three months would be the "most critical time in Tesla's history" since launching its upmarket Model S six years ago.
It looks like they're going upmarket with this one, which is definitely the way to go when you've got a prestige brand like Kodak, however watered down it is at this point.
And for the more upmarket customer, Volvo is preparing another spinoff brand, Polestar, and its Polestar 1 will look to establish itself as a high-performance electric vehicle worthy of our attention.
Angel cash has taken them this far, but they're hoping this move upmarket — and onto the radars of VCs everywhere — will make raising a bit more money possible when it becomes necessary.
Kering briefly hit a record high after the French luxury goods group announced plans to spin off German sports brand Puma to its shareholders to focus squarely on its more upmarket brands.
Wal-Mart is investing billions to get its online business right to stave off marketshare losses to Amazon, which has shaken up the industry with its acquisition of upmarket grocer Whole Foods.
You know, if we put $5 billion in something, and it's 10% of the market cap, which would be as much as it would be, you're talking $50 billion in upmarket caps.
Woolworths, which sells upmarket food and clothing, warned rising interest rates in South Africa would further pressure consumers in Africa's most advanced economy, where it makes nearly 60 percent of its sales.
Fellow conglomerate Kosifler Group, which distributes luxury vehicles including Jaguar and Land Rover in Turkey and has also built hotels, is planning residential and office developments in two upmarket districts of Istanbul.
United's introduction of upmarket snacks like stroopwafels is hardly a return to luxury, but those Dutch confections do seem rather exotic compared with the pretzels flyers have been lucky to get recently.
It's a concept we've seen before with Moleskine's Smart Writing Set ($199) and Livescribe's Smartpen (from $149.95), but Montblanc is definitely going for a more upmarket crowd: Augmented Paper costs €650 ($725).
At the nearby marina where millionaires' yachts are moored by the glistening Mediterranean Sea, and at entrances to the underground parking of an upmarket shopping mall, the same bomb detectors are used.
Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti is moving Burberry further upmarket in the luxury segment by refreshing product ranges under Tisci and focusing on premium store locations in markets such as the United States.
A garage in the upmarket London district of Chelsea is set to be auctioned for £180,000 ($261,567) or more, as the escalation in real estate prices in the already expensive city continues.
Upmarket supermarket Waitrose, Lord's Cricket Ground in London and London City Airport, as well as several food and coffee chains, have pledged to get rid of straws and reduce use of plastic.
The clothes are only available on the brand's website, or from upmarket retailers via "drops" that coincide with Ms. Cave's creative cycle, rather than as part of the traditional seasonal fashion cycle.
The intense competition being faced by U.K. grocers was laid bare on Tuesday morning with new data showing that discount retailer Lidl has trumped upmarket Waitrose in the battle for market share.
Another rival, the upmarket Italian outerwear company Moncler, said it expected its business to grow further this year after posting higher-than-expected growth in revenue for the first half of 2017.
In Las Vegas, where hotel rooms are generally cheaper than other cities (they're usually subsidized by the money casinos make off their patrons at the tables) the digs were slightly more upmarket.
PARIS (Reuters) - French upmarket department store Printemps said it had suffered a 25-30 percent slump in sales over the last four weeks as a result of the "yellow vest" anti-government protests.
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 20 (Reuters) - South Africa's acting police commissioner on Friday denied allegations that he took bribes to fund an 8 million rand ($600,000) mansion in an upmarket suburb of the capital Pretoria.
It was a December afternoon last year when her 12-year-old walked into the living room of their plush four-bedroom family home in an upmarket estate in Nigeria's capital of Abuja.
The conflict in Boeung Kak began a decade ago when nearly 4,000 families were stripped of their housing rights after the government leased the area to make way for an upmarket mini-city.
But, sitting in an upmarket hotel perched above the sprawling western edge of Freetown, Ms. Johansen said the past month had been tougher than most in the chaotic world of soccer politics here.
Yet Craig Pirrong, an expert on trading companies at the University of Houston, says private ownership constrains Cargill's ability to raise capital to invest in fixed assets as it expands and moves upmarket.
Starbucks will realize its chairman's dream when it opens an upmarket roastery and cafe in Milan, but the test will be to convince coffee-obsessed Italians to pay more for their daily espresso.
The gunmen stormed the upmarket restaurant in the diplomatic zone late on Friday and killed their mostly non-Muslim hostages, including nine Italians, seven Japanese and a citizen each from the and India.
"I am curious about Starbucks, I will give it a try when it arrives in Milan," office worker Giuseppe Gaggiano, 55, said at a small, upmarket independent cafe close to the Starbucks site.
Competition has further tightened since Amazon bought Whole Foods and reduced prices at the upmarket grocer in August, a move which has hit Wal-Mart and Kroger hardest in terms of lost customers.
After training at Toni & Guy -- one of the beauty industry's biggest names -- in Singapore, she returned to Mumbai, and soon established her own salon, in the heart of the upmarket Kemps Corner neighborhood.
Restaurants available via Amazon's delivery service include upmarket locations like Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Benares and the European-focused Baltic Restaurant, as well as chains (like Strada) and lunchtime spots (Pod, Tossed, etc).
Twenty-two new cases were confirmed on Sunday in the upmarket Sathorn area of Bangkok, part of the city's Central Business District, including a pregnant woman who later gave birth with no complications.
Woolworths said it would book an impairment of 2346.3 million Australian dollars ($1.46163 million) against David Jones, reducing the valuation of the upmarket department chain to about 21.4616 million Australian dollars ($21 million).
Young's apology consigns it to the status of a provocation; the day of the sober commentary of fact and balance is now for upmarket sites only, reviled by the new journalism as tedious.
Burberry, which under CEO Marco Gobbetti is looking to go more upmarket, had only recently managed to rehabilitate its check print, so widely copied and worn in the early 2000s its sales suffered.
The duo became known as the team behind the upmarket, craft-focused fashion boutique Hostem, which originally occupied the Redchurch Street site before closing, in 2016, to make way for this new endeavor.
"I think there will be a huge amount of activity once we know what is actually happening with Brexit," said Penny Mosgrove, the chief executive of the upmarket real estate agency Quintessentially Estates.
The company is betting that the "sharing economy" format that has grown brands like Airbnb and Uber will not only work for upmarket watches, but also change how the world acquires luxury goods.
But last Thursday, inside the vaulted atrium of the upmarket Powerscourt Centre shopping arcade, models took to the catwalk clad in one-off couture creations by a dozen of Ireland's best known designers.
Lahrs took the company more upmarket and also expanded into women's wear, a strategy Langer defended from criticism by some analysts, highlighting double-digit growth for its BOSS label for women in 2015.
Ocado and Marks & Spencer this year agreed to a 1.5-billion-pound joint venture, creating Ocado Retail and signalling the end of Ocado's supply contract with upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose in September 2020.
Slower economic growth in China, plunging oil prices, volatile exchange rates and security threats that have curbed tourist flows have all put the brakes on spending on upmarket handbags, shoes and other accessories.
Dr. Jerry Bitar, a surgeon, was kidnapped shortly after leaving for work at Hospital Bernard Mevs from his home in an upmarket neighborhood of the capital, hospital administrative assistant Carla Puzo told Reuters.
But the deal over the apartment — in the upmarket "Emperor" complex on the Black Sea coast — indicates that Zelenskiy's family has benefited from a transaction with a member of that same wealthy elite.
It's no surprise that Kate loves the brand's pantyhose: The royal mom (and her entire family) have been spotted shopping at Peter Jones (a more upmarket version of John Lewis) in Chelsea for decades.
Laura Fuentes, a hairstylist from Abilene, Texas, says that many upmarket department stores still keep their plus-size clothing sections poorly organised, badly stocked and dimly lit, if they stock larger clothes at all.
With arrangements by Matt Rollings, who produced "Summertime" with Buddy Cannon, the style is upmarket western swing, featuring smooth work by aces like David Piltch on upright bass and Paul Franklin on pedal steel.
Even before the U.S. ban, Huawei had been making big strides in China, moving upmarket into the $500-800 price range and luring customers away from the likes of Apple with improved camera quality.
Lowe's gave no detail of job losses in the move, which closes stores in some upmarket areas including Broadway and Chelsea in Manhattan and follows the shutdown of 99 Orchard Supply stores in California.
Tsien said GM had little concern that a more upmarket Baojun might eat into sales of GM's Chevrolet as Chinese customers interested in buying a Chevy tend not to be attracted to domestic brands.
Inditex, whose other brands include younger fashion chain Pull&Bear and upmarket label Massimo Dutti, is known for its fast turnover by keeping its manufacturing bases close to its distribution center in northern Spain.
"The impact is severe and ongoing," Le Maire said, emphasizing it was nationwide, although Paris, after riots and looting in some of its most upmarket districts on Saturday afternoon and evening, was particularly affected.
Regional police chief Larry Kiyeng identified them by name and said they had flown into Kenya on Saturday and had planned to stay at a private residence in Nyali, an upmarket estate in Mombasa.
Milan's battle of the coffee palaces reflects global competition among major brands to capture a growing market for people who are prepared to pay a premium for quality espresso coffees in upmarket boutique cafes.
Mercedes-Benz is running its factories at full capacity and struggling to expand its existing production sites in Germany after a strategy shift to give cars a more upmarket appeal gained traction with customers.
A Trump-themed dinner in an upmarket West London bar is way out of my comfort zone, but I'm told that living in echo chambers is what caused this mess in the first place.
SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Australia's biggest upmarket department store operator Myer Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday the local franchisee of British fashion retailer Topshop, of which it owns one fifth, has appointed voluntary administrators.
How the attack unfolded The armed suspect forced his way into the Resorts World Manila (RWM), an upmarket hotel and casino complex near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, around midnight local time (Thursday ET).
Indicated 20.5 pct higher Daimler on Wednesday said it was working on a new "hypercar" and also plans to expand its range of upmarket AMG Mercedes-Benz performance cars by at least 20.2 models.
Finally, let's talk about what you need to think about when building an enterprise cloud service from scratch, or re-tooling an SMB product to go upmarket (which is much harder than it sounds).
Xiaomi's Pistons have long set the standard in this price range, with Zero Audio's Carbo Tenore offering a slightly more upmarket option at $38, and now we can slot the Bullets v2 alongside them.
Tokyo, Japan (CNN)Black is a color you won't find on the walls of Ron Sugano's tattoo parlor in the upmarket Meguro district of south-west Tokyo, where quaint geometric houses line quiet streets.
Tuesday's coordinated assault by armed gunmen on the Dusit D2 compound, an upmarket cluster of shops and hotel facilities, represents the most high-profile terror attack in the East African country in several years.
HARARE, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Grace Mugabe returned to Zimbabwe early on Sunday, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused the first lady of assaulting her in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room.
Created in 1895 and specializing in 20163,500-euro ($1,667) luxury shoes with a peculiar two-tone shine and finish, Berluti has been trying to re-invent itself as an upmarket ready-to-wear brand.
It is the worst car bomb attack since the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) detonated a vehicle in Bogota's upmarket El Nogal social club in 2003, killing 36 and injuring more than 200.
Once known for its cheaper, copycat designs and shoddy quality, Geely has assumed upmarket aspirations after the Volvo deal and has expanded sales significantly since 2016 by banking on smaller, so-called compact cars.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, said it is considering a trial of an upmarket convenience store under the 'Tesco finest' banner but has not disclosed when or where a pilot will be launched.
The Six-Day War at 50 TEL AVIV — On the morning of June 1, 1967, the phone rang in a small apartment in Herzliya, an upmarket suburb a few miles north of Tel Aviv.
Investors often said that CEO Ian Moir overpaid for upmarket Australian department chain David Jones "and when it wasn't working he continued to invest in it", Sasfin Wealth senior equity analyst Alec Abraham said.
The global perfume market is growing at an annual rate of 2 percent to 3 percent, but sales of niche perfume brands have surged 15 percent as consumers increasingly favor rare and upmarket fragrances.
The grocery retail market inquiry was initiated in November 2015 to deepen understanding of a sector dominated by Shoprite Holdings and its upmarket chain Checkers, Pick n Pay Stores, Spar Group and Woolworths Holdings .
At 433 Rubles for three courses and a tea (about $7.30), a meal here is perhaps the cheapest thing you can find in GUM, otherwise populated with upmarket designer stores like Bulgari and Gucci.
At 433 Rubles for three courses and a tea (about $7.30), a meal here is perhaps the cheapest thing you can find in GUM, otherwise populated with upmarket designer stores like Bulgari and Gucci.
Both the upmarket department stores Le Bon Marché in Paris, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and Printemps have noticed increased demand in the past three seasons among women as well as men.
The warning identified upmarket shopping areas and malls in the commercial hub of Johannesburg and Cape Town, widely regarded as South Africa's tourism capital, as the main target areas in the suspected planned attacks.
Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti said he was pleased with progress in his plan to shift the brand further upmarket, driven by the arrival of more and more products designed by Tisci in the coming quarters.
Police on Saturday fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets at thousands of protesters who trashed restaurants and shop-fronts and set wheelie bins ablaze on Paris' upmarket Champs-Elysees boulevard, a tourist magnet.
In fact, the keen eyes at Electrek highlighted Woz's explanation for his plan to switch over to the mass-market Bolt EV from the decidedly upmarket Model S: Knowing myself, it may replace the Tesla.
Sensing potential, Anthony Lassman, co-founder of Nota Bene Global, is returning to his property industry roots as he expands his luxury lifestyle management company to offer residential buying services to his upmarket client base.
Until now it has responded by investing billions of euros in high-speed networks and aiming upmarket with its Movistar Fusion bundled package of super-fast internet, premium TV and mobile and fixed phone services.
"The impact is severe and ongoing," Le Maire said, emphasising that it was nationwide, although Paris, after riots and looting in some of its most upmarket districts on Saturday afternoon and evening, was particularly affected.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pablo Isla said Inditex, whose stable of brands also houses upmarket label Massimo Dutti and teen chain Bershka, did not separate online sales from store figures because they were complementary.
PA) and French investment firm Edmond de Rothschild are in talks to buy Groupe Potel & Chabot, a company with sales of around 100 million euros ($105 million) which runs upmarket conference centers and hospitality events.
LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Sports Direct, the British sportswear retailer controlled by Mike Ashley, reported a 15.5 percent rise in first-half core earnings, excluding acquisitions, helped by its strategy to move its brand upmarket.
Company veteran Rowe, 7103, must convince investors he can lure shoppers back to its clothes - part of its flagship general merchandise division - and make progress in matching the success enjoyed by its upmarket food business.
The group, which operates the Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands among others, said last month that it was looking to buy one or two small luxury brands and launch a new franchised upmarket brand.
In one of those cases, regarding ownership of upmarket properties in London, the high court granted him bail last September, suspending a 10-year sentence until a final decision on his appeal against the conviction.
The luxury sector is expected to grow up to 23.2 percent this year, outpacing fashion as a whole, encouraging southeastern Europe to focus its efforts on attracting more upmarket clients alongside competitors such as Portugal.
South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper reported that several independent sources had told it that the Gupta family had bought Zuma a retirement home for 330 million rand ($25 million) in an upmarket suburb of Dubai.
Permission was also obtained through corruption and nepotism, he added, using the example of the upmarket Phoenix restaurant, which was built on top of the Roman Cisterns of La Malga after the site was listed.
The scandal had already prompted Bulgaria's justice minister and two deputy ministers to resign following reports they bought spacious apartments in an upmarket Sofia suburb at below-market prices from the same real estate developer.
The bunker sits two levels beneath a lavish villa in an upmarket neighborhood in Bucharest, Ceausescu's private residence through the 24 years he ruled Romania, one of Eastern Europe's most repressive Cold War-era regimes.
He spoke after rioters torched motorbikes and set barricades ablaze on Paris's upmarket Boulevard Saint-Germain on Saturday, underscoring how protests against high living costs and President Emmanuel Macron have turned violent on the fringes.
The gunmen stormed the upmarket restaurant in the diplomatic zone late on Friday and killed their mostly non-Muslim hostages, including nine Italians, seven Japanese and a citizen each from the United States and India.
Once primarily a trap targeting the young or naïve or uninsured, private hospital chains like Baijia are now moving upmarket and beginning to accept government-run insurance, drawing in new swaths of society as patients.
"It's a message that needs a new marketing approach and God gives us the blessing," he added, sitting amid pocket-sized Quran books and VR goggles at his swanky office in an upmarket Cairo suburb.
Pricier models like the Alpine could help improve the group's profitability and growth in the longer run as the brand goes even more upmarket and plans more launches, Alpine Chief Executive Patrick Marinoff told Reuters.
Ocado and M&S completed the 1.5 billion pound ($1.9 billion) joint venture deal in August, creating Ocado Retail and signalling the end of Ocado's supply contract with upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose in September 2020.
Aldi is doing well in America and in June it entered China with two shops in Shanghai—for the first time as an upmarket grocer flogging wine from Bordeaux, milk from Australia and fresh organic produce.
H & M, Spain-listed Industria de Diseño Textil's Zara and Tokyo-listed Fast Retailing Co Ltd's Uniqlo have already driven hefty restructures at Australia's top two upmarket department store chains, David Jones and Myer Holdings Ltd.
It came as turnover at Robey Warshaw leapt to 72.7 million pounds from 43.3 million pounds as the firm, which is based in London's upmarket Mayfair district, netted fees from deals that closed in the period.
Based in a townhouse in London's upmarket Mayfair district, the boutique was founded by investment bankers Sir Simon Robey, Simon Warshaw and Apostolides in 2013 and since then has worked on some of Britain's biggest takeovers.
This project forms part of Rémy Cointreau`s strategy to accelerate the move upmarket of its brand portfolio, whereas for Lucas Bols N.V., Passoã would expand its global brands segment, adding a complementary, world famous name.
Islamist militants killed 20 people, including at least nine Italians, seven Japanese and an American, inside an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital, before security forces stormed the building and ended a 12-hour standoff on Saturday.
PARIS (Reuters) - The upmarket brand of French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroën hopes to deliver growth in a stable French car market this year, the new director of the Citroën division Amaury de Bourmont said on Thursday.
Once known for cheap and bland models, both Hyundai and Kia are keen to move upmarket as their cars gain traction with consumers but differentiating their brands has been and will continue to prove a challenge.
PARIS (Reuters) - Upmarket handbag maker Hermes, one of the luxury brands still riding high on strong demand from Asian clients, said on Wednesday it had not observed any change in sales trends so far this year.
Upmarket Audi and Porsche fared much better, however, and the company said deliveries at all brands apart from VW increased in the first three months of this year, helped by good demand in Europe and China.
As well as the shopping, the new Galeries Lafayette will offer an upmarket food court, a coffee lounge, a restaurant and "smart hanger" technology, giving shoppers information about product availability and fitting rooms with natural light.
Coopers has so far defied a steady downturn in Australian beer consumption because of its reputation as an independent brewer and its strategy of building a presence in inner-city pubs, where upmarket ales are popular.
It has moved to larger premises in Sao Paulo's upmarket Itaim neighborhood, and in the last year its workforce more than doubled to 41 from 17, with the number of partners rising by two to six.
Angela Ahrendts, who left Burberry to lead Apple's retail unit in 2014, has been working with design chief Sir Jonathan Ive on a redesign of the stores, in a bid to push them even further upmarket.
For Dogus, who arrived in Britain in 1994 aged almost 14 and took his first job in a Turkish restaurant in the upmarket Mayfair of his constituency, he is keen to build on his political future.
Trump said he canceled the visit because he did not want to endorse a bad deal agreed by the previous administration of Barack Obama to sell the old embassy in the upmarket Mayfair area for "peanuts".
Known in the West largely through the popular woodblock prints that had a profound influence on modern art, the Art Institute presents ukiyo-e in its upmarket version, with over 150 painted screens and hanging scrolls.
Rioters in Paris torched motorbikes and set barricades ablaze on the upmarket Boulevard Saint Germain on Saturday, as protests against high living costs and the perceived indifference of President Emmanuel Macron turned violent on the fringes.
There are organizing supplies, like good-looking white enamel food storage boxes ($34 to $60) that you can put directly on the stove, essentially, upmarket Pyrex, and chunky leather cubes designed to be desk catchalls ($75).
The Times D&D London, the group behind upmarket London restaurants such as Quaglino's and Le Pont de la Tour, has secured its first site in Birmingham as it looks to expand into the regions. bit.
But Burberry, like other European fashion houses, has been hit hard by the outbreak of coronavirus in China, its most important growth market, as shoppers have deserted upmarket malls in major cities and tourism has slumped.
But Burberry, like other European fashion houses, has been hit hard by the outbreak of coronavirus in China, its most important growth market, as shoppers have deserted upmarket malls in major cities and tourism has slumped.
Also, Volkswagen's troubled mass-market brand is pushing upmarket again with a new flagship model a year after ceasing the flopped Phaeton luxury saloon in a bid to lift margins and revive its post-dieselgate image.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will soon reopen the century-old Baron Empain Palace after a $6 million renovation of the Indian-inspired mansion built by a wealthy Belgian engineer in the upmarket Heliopolis district of the capital Cairo.
Ortega not only rents out his commercial property to Inditex stores like Zara and upmarket label Massimo Dutti at market rates, but also to rivals such as H&M of Sweden and Gap of the United States.
Police also used water cannons and had arrested more than 30 protesters by late morning as tensions flared at the top of Paris' upmarket Champs Elysee avenue, where the windows of a high-end restaurant were smashed.
Italy's Yoox agreed back in March to buy upmarket rival Net-a-Porter in an all-share deal that made Swiss luxury group Richemont the biggest shareholder in a leader of the fast-growing online luxury market.
There were signs that some of the hardcore troublemakers were part of the anarchist and anti-capitalist movement: banks, insurance companies, upmarket private homes and cafes and glitzy boutiques were among the properties smashed up and looted.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolize their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London's century-old Science Museum in the city's upmarket Kensington district.
MILAN (Reuters) - An unknown number of Italians were among hostages who were killed after suspected Islamist militants attacked an upmarket cafe in the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, a source at Italy's foreign ministry said on Saturday.
On Wednesday the Federal High Court in the commercial capital Lagos issued the order over Alison-Madueke's property in the city's upmarket Banana Island district which she bought in 2013, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said.
How the attack unfolded Early Friday, a gunman entered the Resorts World Manila, an upmarket hotel and casino complex near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, firing shots from an assault rifle and setting fire to gambling tables.
The company has lowered prices over the past two years to go back to its roots as an "affordable luxury" label, after an ill-fated attempt to go more upmarket, and is developing its business in Japan.
In 1998, the deputy head of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency alleged the Sharif family had purchased upmarket London property through corrupt practices — a claim that was echoed in 2000 by a chief corruption prosecutor at the time.
JOHANNESBURG, July 14 (Reuters) - Australia prop Taniela Tupou suffered no major injuries after having his mobile phone snatched out of his hand in a robbery outside the team hotel in Johannesburg's upmarket Sandton district on Saturday evening.
PARIS (Reuters) - French art auction house Artcurial has agreed to buy John Taylor, the upmarket estate agent that has spent more than 100 years selling properties in places such as the Riviera to the global jet set.
At a price for a small machine likely to be similar to that of an upmarket car—and a fraction of the cost of a new helicopter—they could prove extremely popular in recreational and sport aviation.
Ocado Chief Executive Tim Steiner said Amazon's purchase of the upmarket grocer had made existing bricks and mortar supermarket players in the United States think harder about the competition they will be facing in the coming years.
"It cannot be denied that people with right-wing ideas are also prone to wearing tracht or like tracht," said Gexi Tostmann, who ran the upmarket Tostmann Trachten family business before handing it over to her daughter.
A new "Garden Grill" design aims to make restaurants feel more upmarket, bedecked with warm wooden tables and decor, plants and modern ordering kiosks that will follow in the footsteps of the touch screens introduced by McDonald's.
In one of these cases, relating to the ownership of upmarket properties in London, the high court granted him bail last September, suspending a 10-year sentence until a final decision into his appeal against the conviction.
While there are many very beautiful people into swinging—and upmarket events that cater to them, such as Killing Kittens and Elite Parties—chances are your average local sex party will be a little more low-key.
REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - Diners in some upmarket restaurants will soon be able to tuck into laboratory-grown steak, thanks to an Israeli startup that seeks to tap into consumer concerns about health, the environment and animal welfare.
Evercore ISI's Ellinghorst was particularly encouraged by the improvement at the VW brand, which has long been a weak spot for a group that makes cars ranging from upmarket Audis and Porsches to cheaper Seats and Skodas.
During a walk around Salamanca, an upmarket district of the Spanish capital, Luis Valls-Taberner, a real-estate investment adviser, pointed out on almost every street a building that he said a wealthy Venezuelan had recently acquired.
Growth challenges are already familiar ones in New York City and metropolitan Washington, D.C., where once-affordable neighborhoods have morphed into upmarket enclaves, and aging and overloaded transit systems create daily headaches for their millions of riders.
The increasing popularity of upmarket music festivals, as well as early-morning, alcohol-free dance parties such as Daybreaker, suggest that tastes are evolving and, indeed, that many once-nocturnal activities are now taking place by day.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolise their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London's century-old Science Museum in the city's upmarket Kensington district.
On Wednesday the Federal High Court in the commercial capital Lagos issued the order over Alison-Madueke's property in the city's upmarket Banana Island area which she bought in 2013, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said.
In January, the embassy moved from a building listed as having high architectural interest, in the upmarket Grosvenor Square in central London, to a fortified, high-tech glass construction on a redevelopment site near the River Thames.
International Real Estate 24 Photos View Slide Show ' A CONVERTED WINERY IN UPPER CONSTANTIA $1,215,601 (16,900,000 rand) This home in the leafy, upmarket Cape Town suburb of Upper Constantia was converted from a winery built in 1790.
The gunmen stormed the upmarket Holey Artisan Bakery and the O'Kitchen restaurant in the diplomatic zone late on Friday, before killing mostly non-Muslim hostages, including at least nine Italians, seven Japanese, an Indian and an American.
Legislation and more environmentally conscious young buyers are also forcing developers of upmarket properties to ensure their projects also offer sewage treatment and rainwater harvesting facilities, as Indian cities struggle with a growing water crisis during summer months.
MILAN (Reuters) - Around two hundred people queued outside the first Starbucks cafe in Italy on Friday, as the world's biggest coffee chain faces one of its toughest tests yet with an upmarket roastery in the center of Milan.
So there we were minding our own business at the local upmarket open-air food bazaar when one of the several artisanal barrel fires flared up and I got hit in the face with a load of smoke.
The John Lewis Partnership, which also owns the upmarket Waitrose supermarket, said even though it expected profit to be up on last year, its trading profit was coming under pressure due to the rapid changes in the industry.
Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson told reporters at today's Global Mobility Leadership Forum in Detroit that the autopilot function will be an upmarket option that comes with a price tag of somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000, Bloomberg reports.
LONDON (Reuters) - British upmarket grocer Waitrose has scaled back plans for new stores but will add more cafes and bakeries to existing shops, while owner John Lewis shifts its investment into logistics and technology as online shopping booms.
PARIS, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Change Capital Partners sold a majority stake in upmarket French fashion Label Paule Ka to Xavier Marie, founder of French home furnishing retailer Maison du Monde, the label said on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - With metallic trimmings and corset-like belts, Burberry's trademark trench coats took center-stage at the brand's catwalk relaunch under new designer Riccardo Tisci on Monday as it looks to lift sales with a move upmarket.
Ocado and Casino will build a customer-fulfilment center (CFC) equipped with Ocado's robotics and picking software to serve customers of the upmarket Monoprix brand in and around Paris and in the Normandy and Hauts de France regions.
Why it shut down: In a tale as old as David Cameron's time in office, an upmarket restaurant company which owns 'Burger and Lobster' bought out the lease then asked the club for £300,000 to buy it back.
After a string of profit warnings in 2015 and 2016, chief Mark Langer reversed efforts to take the brand more upmarket and expand in women's wear, focusing back on premium men's clothing, but with a more modern twist.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Fire broke out at an upmarket apartment block on the artificial Palm island in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Monday but there were no immediate reports of any casualties, the emirate's media office said.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse Shi'ite Muslim protesters marching for their leader's freedom in one of the capital's most upmarket areas on Monday, and organizers said several demonstrators were wounded by gunfire.
The group, born from the merger of Italy's Yoox with upmarket rival Net-A-Porter, said it remains committed to its presence in the United Kingdom and its London headquarters despite Britain's decision to leave the European Union.
You would imagine that the diners at an upmarket restaurant like Blue Hill and indeed anyone who can afford to eat at one of London's swankiest department stores would be well-versed in the problem of food waste.
PARIS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Casino's upmarket Monoprix supermarket chain said the start of its partnership with Amazon Prime's delivery service for Paris had been better than expected - an alliance that could prove crucial for debt-ridden Casino's fortunes.
Furthermore, on July 1 a new "sustainable tourism" tax went into effect for tourists 16 and over, which ranges from 50 cents per person per night in hostels or campsites to €2 for luxury hotels and upmarket apartments.
The roadside is littered with the wrecks of new entrants unable to take on the established carmakers, from Tucker in the 2200s to DeLorean in the 2320s and latterly Fisker's failed bid to sell upmarket petrol-electric hybrids.
Its woes are analogous to those of Tesco, Asda and other big, mid-market grocery retailers; they too have been undercut at one end by upstart discounters (German-owned Aldi and Lidl) whereas the upmarket Waitrose has flourished.
Expanding an elevated highway and tunnel through the mountains dividing Rio's southern zone from the upmarket suburb where the Olympic village was located cost 489 million reais - roughly the same as the full disaster reduction plan, he said.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Islamist militants killed 20 people, including at least nine Italians, seven Japanese and an American, inside an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital, before security forces stormed the building and ended a 12-hour standoff on Saturday.
The latest generation is also premium enough, the upmarket (yet still sub-$30,000) trim, to make a strong case for buyers who aren't in their twenties and who don't feel the need to look at Audis and BMWs.
PARIS (Reuters) - Upmarket department store Galeries Lafayette said on Wednesday it will sell Boulanger household appliances and multimedia products in its stores, the latest alliance among brick-and-mortar retailers to compete with online giants like Amazon (AMZN.
The H&M store in the upmarket Karlaplan neighborhood of the Swedish capital offers a smaller range of selected clothes, displayed on airy shelves and tables in color-coordinated sections - as well as espressos and invitation-only events.
In the heart of the Thai capital's downtown district, foreign embassies, five-star hotels and upmarket malls line the leafy nearby streets, while Lumpini Park, the area's largest green space, provides precious escape from the congested city's traffic.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Galeries Lafayette on Friday announced it was joining forces with Mauboussin chairman Alain Nemarq to buy a majority stake in the jeweler, as the upmarket department store strengthens its roster of premium but affordable jewelry.
Michael Gierse, Union Investment fund manager and Lufthansa shareholder, highlighted Do&Co as the benchmark in the sector thanks to its focus on providing upmarket food for business and first class cabins, plus its restaurant and events division.
Both Islamic State and al Qaeda have claimed several attacks in Bangladesh over the past few years, the most notable being the murder of 22 people, most of them foreigners, in an upmarket restaurant in Dhaka last year.
The arrival of German premium brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the US market undermined Caddy's lofty position, as did upmarket moves by the Japanese automaker with Acura (Honda), Infiniti (Nissan), and most importantly, Toyota's Lexus.
Small groups of demonstrators gathered in central Beirut in an effort to keep the protests going, with storefronts of banks and upmarket retailers in the capital's commercial district smashed in and fires still smouldering from the night before.
In May, Coach bought the handbag brand Kate Spade for $2.4 billion, and this week Michael Kors looked upmarket — and to Europe — for its first major acquisition, buying the luxury London-based shoemaker Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion.
Were it not for the concert by Moranbong Band being broadcast on the flat-screen television in lieu of a ballgame, I might have imagined myself to be in an upmarket sports bar somewhere in Chicago or Boston.
The South Korean brand once known for economy cars has steadily moved upmarket — not just with its Genesis luxury brand but also with its more mainstream Hyundai brand — and the sensuous Le Fil Rouge concept shows that trend continuing.
Labeyrie, owned by a three-way joint venture formed in 2014 between management, PAI Partners and French agricultural co-operative Lur Berri, specialises in upmarket and festive food products including smoked salmon, prawns, foie gras, blinis and frozen delicatessen.
Chief Executive Marco Gobbetti said he was pleased with progress in shifting the brand further upmarket, and he said the company was maintaining its full-year guidance of broadly stable revenue and adjusted operating margin at constant exchange rates.
REHOVOT, Israel, July 15 (Reuters) - Diners in some upmarket restaurants will soon be able to tuck into laboratory-grown steak, thanks to an Israeli startup that seeks to tap into consumer concerns about health, the environment and animal welfare.
The film - which cost 3 million pounds ($3.89 million) to make and stars British actor Kate Beckinsale as the foster mother - was greeted with cheers and applause in a packed cinema hall in the upmarket Lagos district of Lekki.
Pret, whose organic coffee and upmarket sandwiches such as crayfish and rocket proved popular enough to propel its growth from a single shop in London to a 530-strong global chain, generated revenue of 879 million pounds last year.
Meanwhile, in anticipation of possible violence ahead of the elections on Thursday, shoppers crammed into Nairobi's upmarket Carrefour supermarket to stock up on food, said Jason Straziuso, who had to wait nearly two hours to pay for his groceries.
Njoroge has also won praise for shunning the trappings of office in a country where officials often abuse state resources, using a modest official car and never moving to the sprawling governor's mansion in an upmarket part of Nairobi.
Moinuddin corralled her husband, their two children and two housekeepers into a bedroom of their elegant New Delhi apartment in Nizamuddin East, one of the capital's most upmarket localities, and switched on two indoor air purifiers at full power.
Among the acquisitions at the center of the trial is a large property bought for 25 million euros in 2005 on Paris's upmarket Avenue Foch, with gymnasium, hammam steam room, hair-dressing studio and a discotheque with cinema screen.
The group said its full stable of brands — from the housewares store Zara Home to the upmarket clothing label Massimo Dutti — would have an online presence in all European countries and Turkey by the end of this financial year.
The scandal, which sparked outrage in Bulgaria, has also prompted justice minister and two deputy ministers to resign following reports they bought spacious apartments in an upmarket Sofia suburb at below-market prices from the same real estate developer.
I have been happy about the crop of upmarket taco restaurants sprouting around my home state the past few years, with their artisanal-tequila cocktail menus and chichi ingredients (crunchy kale, slow-roasted pork belly, spice-glazed duck breast).
On a morning in February 2014, Lau -- a senior editor at the popular, upmarket daily Ming Pao -- had parked his car on a street near the restaurant when two men, wearing motorcycle helmets and gloves, rushed up to him.
The BBC gave the tournament a self-consciously upmarket presentation, with Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma," and England's young star, Paul Gascoigne, known universally as Gazza, emerged as a national figure when he broke down in tears during a match.
Known for its smart men's suits, Hugo Boss has introduced more casual and sportswear styles to appeal to a younger audience and invested heavily in its online offer after a bid to go upmarket backfired a few years ago.
Indian-owned Tata bought two loss-making British brands Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008 and has since been rapidly updating and expanding its upmarket Range Rover line-up, but will now turn its attention to the Defender model.
The Spanish group, which also owns upmarket label Massimo Dutti and teen brand Bershka, is highly sensitive to fluctuations in the euro as it sells from China to Russia to India across its thousands-strong global portfolio of stores.
The latest generation is also premium enough in the upmarket (yet still sub-$30,000) trim to make a strong case for buyers who aren't in their 20s and who don't feel the need to look at Audis and BMWs.
On the Runway LONDON — Rapha, the upmarket British bikewear brand credited with bringing fashionable as well as functional garments to the booming cycling market, is set to get additional pedal power in the form of a major new shareholder.
The business performance of Accor, whose brands include upmarket chains such as Raffles and Sofitel as well as budget brands such as Ibis, has benefited from recent acquisitions and a general pick-up in the broader French tourism sector.
Chief Executive Valerie Chapoulaud-Floquet also told Reuters that she hoped Remy Cointreau could announce an acquisition "in the coming months" to complement its portfolio of small niche upmarket brands like Bruichladdich single malt whisky or The Botanist gin.
This could be bad news for malls such as Mall of Africa, set in the sprawling Midrand suburb housing many of South Africa's newly middle-class black consumers around 20 km (12 miles) away from its nearest upmarket rival.
The retailer, which owns a stable of brands from upmarket label Massimo Dutti to home wares chain Zara Home, said online sales grew 41 percent over the year to reach 10 percent of net sales across the group in 2017.
For conventional grocers, such as Wayne Denningham, chief operating officer of Albertsons, another big grocery chain, who is watching Lidl's entry (he is "concerned, but not unduly worried"), the ideal scenario would be for the Germans to nudge each other upmarket.
For Markle, it is thought to be the first time she has accompanied Harry to a wedding and will be seen as something of a public coming out for the couple, surrounded by so many other guests in an upmarket resort.
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - British retailer John Lewis's said on Thursday it was taking an exceptional charge of 25 million pounds ($33.10 million) after deciding to write down property assets it no longer plans to develop for its upmarket grocer Waitrose.
Italy's Yoox merged at the start of October with upmarket rival Net-a-Porter in an all-share deal that created a leader in the fast-growing online luxury market, handing a 50 percent stake to Swiss luxury group Richemont.
Club Med was too dependent on Europe, home to 70 percent of its revenue and slow economic growth, while Fosun offered it a chance to accelerate a strategy focused moving more upmarket and expanding abroad, notably in the booming Chinese market.
Geely has transformed itself from a no-frills domestic brand into an automaker with upmarket aspirations, using its 2010 acquisition of Volvo to up its game with models such as the recently launched GC9 sedan and Boyue sport-utility vehicle.
The move upmarket for Baojun is partial as some cheaper models will still carry the old Baojun badge although others will be folded into the Wuling brand, - the other marque sold by SGMW, said Matt Tsien, GM's chief in China.
The small-business economy and moving upmarket towards medium-sized businesses has always been our sweet spot and we are seeing a lot more growth in the midmarket and up-market opportunity," CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday on CNBC's "Closing Bell.
Employee-owned John Lewis, comprising the eponymous department store business and the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain, on Thursday reported pretax profit down 53 percent at 26.9 million pounds ($35.6 million), citing weak consumer demand and investment in its restructuring process.
A plot in downtown Brasilia - known as Santuário dos Pajés or Shrine of the Shamans - is at the center of a conflict between indigenous people hoping to preserve their traditional way of life and developers eager to build an upmarket neighborhood.
Ocado, which sells products supplied by upmarket grocer Waitrose and also has its own distribution agreement with Britain's No. 21 supermarket Morrisons, said retail sales rose 20.7452 percent to 373.8 million pounds ($501.6 million) in the 14 weeks to Dec.
After a string of profit warnings as sales fell in China and the United States in 26 and 21, Boss has reversed efforts to take the brand more upmarket and expand in womenswear, returning to its roots selling men's suits.
The group said its upmarket Waitrose supermarkets were on track to grow profits for the full year, driven by an improvement in like-for-like sales from the first to the second quarter and progress in rebuilding its gross margin.
Intel basically couldn't allow low-margin x86 products to cannibalize its high-margin x86 products, so it was stuck with half-measures, like Atom, aimed more at keeping ARM from moving upmarket into laptops than at moving x86 down into smartphones.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British survivor of sex trafficking made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for more action to be taken against those responsible for enslaving people across the globe, from upmarket British and U.S. neighborhoods to slums in India.
After Mark Langer took over as chief executive in 20.8836, the company known for its smart men's suits abandoned his predecessor's bid to go more upmarket and instead trimmed prices, launching more casual styles and investing heavily in its online offer.
The relisting will test demand for a streamlined firm that focuses on high-end consumer tyres for upmarket brands such as Mercedes, Audi and BMW after its less profitable truck and industrial tyre business was folded into a unit of ChemChina.
In a live television broadcast, she said the country stood "committed and determined" to uphold its freedom, and announced two days of national mourning in the wake of a deadly Islamist militant attack on an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
Power outages hit around 45,000 homes across Sydney's upmarket eastern suburbs on Thursday as a forecast 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) heatwave hit the harborside city, with media reports of people being trapped in lifts and one hospital losing power.
The firm, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, will team up with Redefine Properties, one of South Africa's biggest real estate companies, in opening its first location in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank in the third quarter of the year.
The firm currently sells wine, flowers and clothes online, but does not offer a full delivery service for its upmarket foods, putting it at a disadvantage to rivals such as the John Lewis-owned Waitrose and Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco.
"My mother and father also had the outside catering business Hillary Caterers (my dad said the name "Syd's" wasn't upmarket enough), and they used to put on a dinner for the old people at Shoreditch Church every year," she says.
The rise puts the price of an upmarket two-bedroom flat at up to roughly 1 million euros ($1.2 million), making the small city, which has struggled with the reputation of being among Germany's dullest, also one of its most expensive.
Airbnb may have been founded on the premise of renting out spare sofa or bed space as a cheap alternative to hotels, but the company has moved upmarket in a big way, and is about to take that up another notch.
PARIS, June 29 (Reuters) - AccorHotels, Europe's biggest hotels group, has agreed to buy a 50 percent stake in hotelier Sam Nazarian's upmarket SBE Entertainment Group, in a deal that will see Accor making a total investment of $319 million in SBE.
The Hoxton Grill is in the upmarket Hoxton Hotel in east London, which was founded in 2006, down the Old Street end of Shoreditch [ a neighborhood in London known to attract young creatives], by the co-founder of Pret a Manger.
Deutsche Bank was criticized by members of the public and financial sector commentators on social media when upmarket tailors were seen leaving its London offices after a suit fitting with senior managers, on the same day hundreds of staff were fired.
The sand is used across the construction industry, in the flooring of upmarket apartments in Mumbai and Thane and to plaster the walls of cheap, illegal homes in distant suburbs where people are moving as space tightens in the cities.
Ocado, which sells products supplied by upmarket grocer Waitrose and also has its own distribution agreement with Morrisons, made earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of 45.2 million pounds ($58.3 million) in the 26 weeks to May 28.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe returned home from South Africa early on Sunday, state media reported, pursued by demands she face prosecution over an alleged assault of a 20-year-old model in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room.
Inditex, whose brands include upmarket label Massimo Dutti and homewares chain Zara Home, said gross margin dropped to 53.5 percent in the quarter to the end of January from 13 percent in the previous quarter and 54.8 percent a year earlier.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz gave a sneak preview of a new ultra luxury coupe on Thursday in a sign that Daimler is continuing its push upmarket to turn up the heat on BMW, which owns the Rolls-Royce car brand.
Among the acquisitions at the center of the trial is a large property bought for 25 million euros ($28 million) in 2005 on Paris's upmarket Avenue Foch, with gymnasium, hammam steam room, hair-dressing studio and a discotheque with cinema screen.
Józef knew that the girls were upmarket professionals working for one of the most important people in town, so his usual approach of giving someone a beating and telling her to get the fuck out wouldn't have worked in this case.
Britain's closest ally will leave behind an imposing 1960 stone and concrete embassy in London's upmarket Grosvenor Square — an area known as 'Little America' during World War Two, when the square also housed the military headquarters of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Deutsche Bank was criticised by members of the public and financial sector commentators on social media when upmarket tailors were seen leaving its London offices after a suit fitting with senior managers, on the same day hundreds of staff were fired.
Keepers like mixed greens with baby turnips, biscuits, a somewhat-upmarket pimento cheese, fried croaker, and macaroni and cheese that's almost as easy as a packaged mix, are interspersed with history and sidebars about ingredients like okra, rice and peanuts.
Mr. Weinstein, more than perhaps any film executive of the modern era, seemed to understand the role fashion could play as he built an upmarket brand in which box office performance was important, but so were glitter and good reviews.
Ending free food on short-haul routes, ancient video screens, evasive call centres, cramming in more seats, charging for bags and seat allocation on shorter routes and other money-saving measures looked like penny-pinching and have hurt its upmarket image.
South Africa's retailers are battling to boost sales as consumers check spending amid rising interest rates and high unemployment, but Woolworths have done better than rivals, due to the appeal of its upmarket food and clothing to high-income customers.
This hearty brothy mix of kale (or cabbage), thinly cut onions, potatoes, and a handful of sliced discs of chourico sausage can be just as easily found on the menus of Lisbon's boutique upmarket hotels as its cheap and cheery tascas. 
Mr. Mubarak, 22011, was taken under armed escort from the Maadi Military Hospital in southern Cairo, where he had been living under guard in a room with a view of the Nile, to his mansion in the upmarket suburb of Heliopolis.
Among the acquisitions at the center of the trial is a large property bought for 25 million euros (currently $26 million) in 2005 on Paris's upmarket Avenue Foch, with gymnasium, hammam steam room, hair-dressing studio and a discotheque with cinema screen.
"The Queen has a great hat style and absolutely knows what works for her," says the esteemed milliner, who works from a small atelier in London's upmarket St. James's and has made more than 100 hats for the Queen during the last decade.
Pestana, a family-owned chain of 90 upmarket hotels, hopes the Ronaldo partnership will help it compete for a bigger slice of the international luxury market, against larger foreign rivals such as Spain's Melia, France's AccorHotels and U.S.-based giant Marriott International.
By targeting nonconsumers, LSEV manufacturers have steered clear of direct competition with incumbent automakers — who have at their disposal far more resources, such as capital, factories and relationships with suppliers — and effectively established a foothold that allows them to steadily move upmarket.
The firm, whose range includes products supplied by upmarket supermarket Waitrose, said gross retail sales were 286.4 million pounds ($381.6 million) in the 12 weeks to August 7, its fiscal third quarter, up from 252 million pounds in the same period last year.
"Part of our thesis on Apple all along has been, they are taking a good amount of market share from Samsung at the high end, and even from some other brands that are moving upmarket, " Long told CNBC's "Power Lunch " on Monday.
When I looked a little more upmarket, I was shocked to see that I'd spending upwards of $1,000 to wear what is essentially sheer material with a bra sewn in, or artfully arranged ribbons that would fall over my nipples and vagina.
The company, which is looking to reposition itself as a more upmarket brand, said in September that a plan to create more targeted collections would help it limit waste, after it came under fire for destroying almost $40 million in stock last year.
"You don't know where your customer's coming from, you don't know what they're clicking on once they get to the site," said Melanie Travis, founder of upmarket swimwear brand Andie who has talked to Amazon, but decided against selling on the platform.
Sales of the German company's luxury cars in China have grown 28 percent so far this year after Mercedes spruced up its designs to give its cars a more sporty and upmarket feel, gaining traction with drivers in the world's largest car market.
The company, traditionally associated with upmarket properties in southern England, recently forecast a "difficult" first half as its full-year profit fell short of expectations while adding that it was cutting costs, reviewing its supply chain and processes, and shoring up falling margins.
The German executive brought Hugo Boss more upmarket but in recent years, the brand was hit hard by the luxury goods downturn and Lahrs left on the back of a profit warning due to weak sales in the United States and China.
" Mr. Getz elaborated on his point: "The tendency when you get attacked from below by smartwatches is to keep going upmarket, and what happens is that the market gets so thin up there that you can basically overperform your way out of business.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - With its capital under curfew following devastating Easter Sunday bomb attacks on churches and upmarket hotels, Sri Lanka is filled with fear, horror and grief and tourists who have been flocking to the Indian Ocean island could cancel in droves.
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29 (Reuters) - South African retailer Woolworths Holdings Ltd posted a 2.1% drop in annual earnings and said it had written down the value of its Australian upmarket department store chain David Jones on subdued consumer spending in a slowing economy.
LONDON — Thomas Pink, the upmarket British shirt and suit retailer owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, announced the appointment of John Ray as its creative director on Thursday, just hours before London Fashion Week Men's kicked off with its fifth anniversary party.
Splitting his time between their villa in the upmarket Cairo neighborhood of Heliopolis and their seaside residence in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to regional media reports, the man once dubbed Egypt's "last pharaoh" lived out his last days in relative peace and prosperity.
Chocolate makers are grappling with sluggish demand as many consumers prefer healthier snacks, but Lindt has so far bucked the trend thanks to upmarket products like Lindor chocolate balls or pink grapefruit-flavoured dark chocolate that people buy as a special treat.
French supermarket groups have been slow to develop e-commerce but are now trying to catch up, with Amazon's purchase of upmarket U.S. food chain Whole Foods last year fuelling speculation the U.S. online giant could focus on Europe's food sector next.
She can even try to visit Js Bar or The Alchemist in the upmarket western suburbs of the city, which are teeming with eager young American expats who have come to "make a difference in Africa" by building one app or the other.
MILAN (Reuters) - Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee chain, will realize its chairman's dream on Friday when it opens an upmarket roastery and cafe in Milan, but the test will be to convince coffee-obsessed Italians to pay more for their daily espresso.
Witherspoon's taste tends toward upmarket women's fiction with a commercial bent that ranges from short stories (Curtis Sittenfeld's You Think It, I'll Say It) to a novel written as a Behind the Music–style oral history (Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & the Six).
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Power outages hit around 45,000 homes across Sydney's upmarket eastern suburbs on Thursday as a forecast 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) heatwave hit the harborside city, with media reports of people being trapped in lifts and one hospital losing power.
The company is also planning to make its Healthy Choice meals more upmarket by introducing premium products such as Power Bowls, which will include antibiotic-free meat and ancient grains, Conagra's Chief Growth Officer Darren Serrao said on a conference call on Thursday.
White will step down from Ofcom around the turn of the year after more than four years in the job and succeed Charlie Mayfield at the retail group that runs John Lewis department stores and upmarket grocery chain Waitrose in early 2020.
EDP, led by Chief Executive Officer António Mexia, will meet the company's investors at the Berkeley Hotel in London's upmarket Knightsbridge district on March 12, the sources said, and will outline a new strategy to raise cash from asset sales to finance renewable energy projects.
Mulberry is trying to reconnect with its roots as an upmarket British brand offering sturdy and chic handbags after an ill-fated push into higher-priced products led to a string of profit warnings and the dismissal of the former executive and creative teams.
Philrem distributed the stolen $81 million to Bloomberry Resorts Corp, which owns and operates the upmarket Solaire casino in Manila; to Eastern Hawaii Leisure Company, which is owned by Wong; and to an ethnic Chinese man believed to be a junket operator in Manila.
This holy trinity of meat, carbs, and oil can be found throughout Japan, everywhere from combinis (convenience stores), to supermarkets, standard bakery chains like Little Mermaid and Delifrance, upmarket foreign import bakeries like Joel Robuchon and Gontran Cherrier, currypan festivals, and dedicated currypan specialty stores.
Whole Foods customers had been happy to shop at other retailers including Wal-Mart, for similar products at lower prices, but it was unlikely that a Wal-Mart customer would shop at Whole Foods, even if the upmarket grocer were to cut prices, Grant said.
New vehicle sales in East Africa average less than 15,13 out of a total of 200,000 sold annually, said Rita Kavashe, managing director of Isuzu East Africa, adding that this was due to a preference for upmarket used cars to new, lower-end ones.
After the local church in Sainte-Élizabeth-de-Warwick, a central Quebec town of 400 people, was transformed into an upmarket cheese company a few years ago, its owners decided to keep a small part of the structure as a functioning chapel for the community.
Today's customers wear groovy headbands and tie-dyed T-shirts advertising upmarket ice cream ("Cherry Garcia: What a long, strange dip it's been"); they dance to a recycled form of psychedelic music called acid house; they even dabble in the old mind-bending drugs.
Elsewhere, a string of sizable luxury investments has also been built up by the Qatar Investment Authority, the country's sovereign wealth fund, from holdings in groups like LVMH to ownership of the upmarket British department store Harrods and luxury hotels like Claridge's in London.
Burberry's chief executive Marco Gobbetti is part way through repositioning the label to be more upmarket and is pinning his hopes on Riccardo Tisci, the former Givenchy star who has designed costumes for Beyonce and Madonna, to help transform the quintessentially British fashion house.
Seattle-based Westland, which has a portfolio of single malts in a price range of between $70 and $125, will complement Remy's portfolio of small, niche upmarket single-malt whisky brands such as Bruichaddich on the Scottish Isle of Islay and Domaine Des Hautes Glaces in France.
Sales from its own retail business rose 7 percent in the quarter on a same-store basis, and it saw growth of 11 percent in the United States, where it has been making efforts to move the brand more upmarket by stopping selling in discount outlets.
The sale of shares in the maker of tyres for Formula One races and upmarket brands such as Mercedes, Audi and BMW will raise between 22016 and 20203 billion euros for the current owners depending on whether its bankers exercise an over-allotment option in the offer.
Related: El Chapo's Top Lawyer Talks About What It's Like Defending an Infamous Drug Lord Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa was sitting in the passenger seat of his Range Rover in the parking lot of an upmarket shopping center in suburban Dallas when the assassins came for him.
The sale of Westfield to Paris and Amsterdam-listed Unibail-Rodamco is a milestone for so-called bricks-and-mortar retailers, which have so far argued they can downsize or, in Westfield's case, go upmarket to avoid the incursion of online competitors led by U.S. giant Amazon.
Northwood, who has a salon in London's upmarket Fitzrovia and counts Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Kate Winslet and Alicia Vikander as clients, began styling Meghan's hair in the run up to her wedding in May and was responsible for her chic bun worn for the evening wedding reception.
Brand strength, technological know-how and a focus on exports are catching the attention of traders and fund managers who highlight companies such as hearing aids maker Amplifon , small appliance manufacturer De Longhi, upmarket exercise machine maker Technogym or Energica Motor, which produces supersport electric motorcycles.
Richard Ward, the luxury salon in London's upmarket Chelsea neighborhood, is famous for tending to the tresses of Kate Middleton and many other celebrities — but it's also one of the only salons in the U.K to offer the controversial hair treatment known as velaterapia, or candle cutting.
Last year, the group, which also owns upmarket chain Massimo Dutti and underwear store Oysho, had said it planned to open 300 to 400 stores in the 2018 financial year and close 200, but it ended up opening 6.73 and closing 355, almost double its initial plan.
Luxury hotel operators can earn profit margins that are two to three times higher than those of budget hotels, and AccorHotels is hoping that expanding in this upmarket part of the industry will boost its profits, which have come under pressure due to security concerns impacting Europe.
From gala balls to upmarket hotels and the White House itself, 47 routinely infiltrates classy and exotic locations—disguised as an aristocrat during Hitman 2: Silent Assassin's "Invitation to a Party" level, scanning the ballroom for a corrupt Russian general, 47 is the pinnacle of cool.
The upmarket neighborhoods of London's Kensington district have proved hugely popular with foreign buyers in recent years, and pressure had been growing to ensure that victims of the fire were not relocated outside of the borough when many properties nearby stand empty for much of the year.
The jump to upmarket tacos seemed risky, especially given how high the bar has been raised recently, and the Greenpoint address, Venice Beach aesthetic, and frozen Paloma, pale pink and frothy in its novelty glass, suggested a stronger allegiance to trends than to Mexico's culinary heritage.
Some tours also go to the main state university, which is a UNESCO heritage site; the cobbled streets of El Hatillo; the once-upmarket boulevard of Sabana Grande; and elegant Plaza Altamira, known both for its signature obelisk and as a focus of anti-government protests.
Maria Arocha, a 78-year-old sat in a plaza in Caracas' upmarket Chacao district, said she had spent the past three days with flu symptoms and a sore throat, and was trying to get evaluated, but there was no doctor at the first clinic she visited.
Twists on this seemingly populist theme varied from the upmarket ensembles shown by Tom Ford, all extended shoulders and hip-slung pants, to the rancho deluxe get-ups at Calvin Klein, spliced with shiny patent panels; or the natty three-piece suits on parade at Rachel Zoe.
Ms. Rucker, one of Britain's richest self-made businesswomen and the country's equivalent of Martha Stewart, is the founder of the White Company, an upmarket home and lifestyle powerhouse that sends out more than 10 million catalogs annually and has over 50 stores in its home market.
The brand's colorfully named products, like Wild Thistle and Siberian Juniper shampoo and Strength of the Bear shaving cream, are sold in dozens of countries, from Argentina to Australia, at supermarkets like the Monoprix chain in France, as well as upmarket department stores like Harrods in London.
The properties are the Upper West commercial high rise in Berlin, the upmarket shopping centres Kaufmannshaus and Alsterarkaden in Hamburg, the Upper Zeil shopping mall that is in development in Frankfurt, and the remaining 50 percent of the Karstadt department store at Munich's main train station.
Look for companies that are democratizing parent services for the massesAt Alpha Edison, the VC firm where I work, we make concerted efforts to identify startups who use new technology to bring upmarket services — services which were once only enjoyed by the rich and powerful — to the masses.
Members of the royal family typically stay at consulates or embassies or upmarket hotels during visits and tours, but Harry – who "has been moved by the stories of resilience of the Nepali people following the earthquakes last year," a spokesman said in a statement – wants a different experience.
If you know where to look in London's upmarket Chelsea district, you'll find an incredible piece of fashion history: Catherine Walker & Co, one of the last remaining British couture houses and the only one that can lay claim to dressing both Princess Kate and the late Princess Diana.
Chandrika Harie, a third-generation trader (her grandfather arrived in the early 1900s), and the operations manager of Durban's Spice Emporium , a sprawling upmarket spice store and Indian supermarket, says that the majority of Indians, unlike her family, became stuck in time without the ability to travel home.
More than a year after CEO Marco Gobbetti hit the reset button on Burberry in a bid to promote a more upmarket image, the plan faced its biggest test yet with new Tisci products accounting for half the wares on offer in its shops by the end of June.
HOLETOWN, Barbados (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Spooning raw yellowfin tuna caught off the Barbados coast into a mould and finishing the plate with a wave of sliced avocado, Rhea Gilkes strives to include as many local ingredients as she can on the menu of the upmarket Fusion Rooftop restaurant.
The students were another motley crew — in an upmarket, foodie sort of way: a husband and wife who owned a weed dispensary in California, a pot-loving lesbian couple from Fort Lauderdale and some married academics on a secret holiday from their small Catholic college in the Midwest.
Speaking of upmarket, I ate at Rau Răm last night and couldn't help but notice—and this is true of virtually all international restaurants here, not just you guys—that although the food was delicious, it's not exactly something someone on an average Burmese working-class salary could afford.
At the upmarket Saint Jude gym and spa in Montreal's bourgeois-bohemian Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood, members show off their muscles in the church's former chapel, forsake kneeling in favor of ashtanga yoga poses and luxuriate in an outdoor steamy bath in the shadow of the church's imposing steeple.
The defense was allowed to reopen its case last week, in the process introducing testimony from a psychologist who examined Mthethwa and attempting to establish "a pattern of [the artist] being driven home in his car after a night of heavy drinking at upmarket clubs," according to News24.
While Cayman was once a shady place to stash illicit cash — a reputation cemented by the 183 John Grisham novel "The Firm" and a subsequent Tom Cruise thriller — it has long since moved aggressively upmarket, courting institutional investors, private equity and trading firms seeking to minimize taxes and bureaucracy.
"Nobody is going to buy it just to fish, but I would not underestimate the value of the river frontage, because people are really impressed when you show them the riverside," said Mr. Spink, one of Britain's most prominent upmarket developers, who designed and built the main house.
At the more innovative end of this mixture of culinary and residential marketing is 10 Clermont, an upmarket rental development in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that has a chef living in the building to run supper clubs or communal dinners for residents of its 21.88 homes.
When he slipped into Qatar last weekend, Mr. al-Qahtani and his friend Khaled al-Anqari mingled in Souk Wakif, a popular district in central Doha with upmarket cafes, falcon dealers and buildings festooned with giant pictures of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
The John Lewis Partnership, which as well as the department store business owns the upmarket Waitrose supermarket chain, said in June it would invest in both businesses at a rate of 400-500 million pounds ($513-$641 million) per year, aiming to differentiate them from other retailers through innovation.
In all, Uptown is worth visiting because it gives a glimpse of the Harlem that is coming — one with contemporary, upmarket buildings, large-scale institutions and developments, and eminent exhibitions — inside and alongside the Harlem that persists: a place that is oriented toward handmade craft, celebratory of ancestral ties, and personal.
"As well as producing large audiences — in some countries, the largest of the year — the World Cup disproportionately attracts people who are hard to reach on television: young, upmarket and mobile consumers who are more likely to spend their time outside the home and adopt the latest media technologies," Zenith added.
In fact, it's Jeremiah Claflin, the chief justice himself, who's about to be smeared by Slander Sheet, a sordid gossip website claiming that a Las Vegas casino magnate, the grateful recipient of a recent favorable court judgment, has been picking up Claflin's tab for the services of an upmarket escort service.
Overall, Lippincott said it was indicative of a broader strategy from Microsoft to move upmarket and focus its efforts on where the company sees the most growth potential — namely, larger customers, for which the company has historically been a market-share heavyweight and has several solutions custom-tailored to their needs.
" Speaking specifically about Giuffre's claim that he danced with her at London's exclusive Tramp nightclub before allegedly having sex in a mansion in the upmarket Belgravia neighborhood, Queen Elizabeth's second son said, "No, that couldn't have happened because the date that's being suggested I was at home with the children.
" Speaking specifically about Giuffre's allegation that he danced with Giuffre at London's exclusive Tramp nightclub, before allegedly having sex in a mansion in the upmarket Belgravia neighborhood, Queen Elizabeth's second son said, "No, that couldn't have happened because the date that's being suggested I was at home with the children.
Marriott, the world's largest hotel company, is making the most substantial changes across several of their hotel brands, including a straw ban at all 60 British properties; Marriott's 11 upmarket Edition Hotels will eliminate single-use plastics by 2019, a move made in collaboration with Lonely Whale, an environmental organization.
The de Blasio administration has been reluctant to go to war with neighborhoods that don't want shelters, presumably for fear of the political repercussions, though it has had little problem standing up to the Nimby-ists who hope to get in the way of the high-rise plans of upmarket developers.
While his inventive dishes—like the banh xeo taco, black truffle pho, and the stunt-y $100 truffle-and pate banh mi—have been recognized by international food media, including MUNCHIES, Franklin admits there are challenges locally for any business owner trying to create upmarket experiences in a poor country.
Back in the real world, it's true that even in the midst of a populist movement, wealthy cosmopolitans are pursuing the same old goals of power and longevity — like billionaire Peter Thiel "desperately sucking on the veins of the world's teenagers, like a kind of upmarket Dracula," as Snowden vividly put it.
But because it is 1977 and Lizzie lives in Leicestershire, her primary goal is to get and keep a job, for reasons both acquisitive (a desire to buy upmarket shampoo and pastel underwear printed with the days of the week) and poignant (a desire to be wanted and needed by other people).
"We are checking everything, doing a total audit, figuring out what to do if we don't have a receipt for a piece of equipment or for example four bottles of very expensive liqueur," said one paladar owner in Havana's upmarket Vedado district, as he sat in a back office with his accountant.
As Bengaluru, and several other Indian megacities with aging or inadequate infrastructure, struggle to tackle issues such as air pollution, congestion and water shortages, builders are looking to woo millennials with homes in upmarket gated-communities that offer open green spaces, drinkable tap water and amenities that range from smart-home connectivity to oxygen generators.
But if it's a five-star venue, proper upmarket kind of place, then it's good to let the police know that we're in there, because they then have to get high court orders to get us out, so we squat it for a few nights beforehand which leaves us a little bit of time.
Nestled between everyone's favourite upmarket Indian chain Dishoom, and the kind of nondescript office space that litters London like so many soulless cigarette butts, Spiritland is an oasis of calm—the kind of place one can while away a long Sunday afternoon with a salt beef sandwich and Ruf Dug on the decks for company.
Mark Fisher offers a razor-sharp reading of the Criminal Justice Act as symptomatic of the capitalistic aims of "cultural exorcism, commercial purification, and mandatory individualism" that led from the late-80s outlaw rave subculture to the upmarket, members-first superclubs (London's Ministry of Sound, Liverpool's Nation) that sprung up in the mid 90s.
"Growth challenges are already familiar ones in New York City and metropolitan Washington, D.C., where once-affordable neighborhoods have morphed into upmarket enclaves, and aging and overloaded transit systems create daily headaches for their millions of riders," Margaret O'Mara, a historian at the University of Washington, wrote last week in The New York Times.

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