Herbal Essences expands tactile packaging for vision-impaired people

The Procter & Gamble-owned beauty giant unveiled a tactile bottle design last year to make it easier for vision-impaired consumers to distinguish between the shampoo and conditioner products in its bio:renew line via touchคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Now, it has announced that the concept will be extended to all of its shampoos and conditioners, with the packaging rolling out from January 2020. The bottles feature different indentations to help users identify products, with shampoo bottles featuring raised stripes and the conditioner bottle marked with raised circles.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว…

For some Ant investors, outrage that regulatory risks weren’t flagged better

China’s suspension of the world’s biggest float came at the eleventh hour after authorities published a consultation paper on Monday that recommended tighter rules for online micro-lending companies – which if implemented will require changes to Ant’s business model and hit its growth prospects.Ant <688688.SS><9988.HK> did make disclosures about major regulatory risks in China in its prospectus and investors are expected to factor in a degree of regulatory uncertainty when making investments.

However, some fund managers who bought stock in the IPO say Ant did not do enough and they wonder how it could not have known that tighter regulations were in the offing.”There was no mention of microlending regulation tightening, that (was) not a conversation that was had,” one hedge fund ma…

Japanese sizing tech solution Makip launches in UK

Eight-year-old Makip claims its Unisize tech can lead to a 20% average reduction in returns. And it also said its own analysis has shown that “providing online shoppers with more accurate sizing options increases the decision to purchase by 2.5 times”.Unisize helps online shoppers to ‘try on’ clothing online. It asks them some basic questions such as age, weight and height to understand the measurements of their body, allowing the sizing technology to map the individual’s body size to the clothing item, and then display how the clothes will fit the unique body size of the shopper.

Returns rates plummeted during the pandemic as the relaxed clothing that people were ordering offered fewer sizing issuesคำพูดจาก

Japan beauty firm DHC under fire over CEO comments on Koreans

DHC’s Yoshiaki Yoshida made the comments in a message on the company’s website in which he attacked rival Suntory, a major beverage manufacturer that competes with DHC in the health supplement sector.”For some reason, the models hired for Suntory’s commercials are almost all Korean-Japaneseคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. So that’s why it seems they’re mocked on the Internet as ‘Chontory,'” he wrote.

“Chon” is a derogatory term for Koreans in Japan, widely regarded as discriminatory.Yoshida went on to write that DHC’s employees by comparison were all “pure Japanese”.Discrimination against Koreans in Japan goes back decades, against a backdrop of tense ties between Seoul and…

Black Friday provides no UK store sales or footfall boost but e-tail soars – BDO

Its High Street Sales Tracker (HSST) reported like-for-like sales at physical stores up a tiny 0.5% during Black Friday and year-on-year footfall fell as much as 6.5% for the week as a wholeคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. That was the biggest drop in three years.The fall came as online retailers saw comparable sales growth of 30.8% for their best week so far this year and the best Black Friday week since 2014.

Sophie Michael, head of retail at BDO, said: “Retailers will be hugely disappointed with the flat in-store sales last weekคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Many have been manacled…

Holiday weekend set to see over 70% of US consumers shopping

 91% of shoppers said that they would shop online, while 89% said they would be going to stores, suggesting that consumers are expecting to use both channels fairly equally. These statistics, however, do change depending on the day. On Black Friday, for example, 70% of those surveyed said they will be heading to a store, while 50% said they would be shopping online.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

These figures are, perhaps unsurprisingly, flipped on Cyber Monday, when 73% of survey respondents expected to shop online, accounting for 47% of all online spending over the weekend. Interestingly, while 81% of holiday weekend shoppers plan to shop on Black Friday, Cyber Monday is ex…

Nothing fishy about trout skin sandals says French shoe firm

Jean-Jacques Houyou has set out to persuade his compatriots that they should be wearing trout rather than merely eating them with a caper and black butter sauce.The stack-heeled women’s sandals in seven colours will go on sale in France this summer, selling for around 120 euros ($135) a pair.

Houyou has sourced salmon trout for the shoes — whose skins he claims are particularly beautiful — from the cold mountain streams of the renowned Banca valley in the foothills of the Pyrenees in the French Basque country.All come the Goicoechea family’s fish farm, whose trout are prized by gourmets.And although his company is called Don Quichosse — a play on Don Quixote — Houyou insisted he was not tilting at watermills.He admitted however that making the espadrilles was an “extremely exa…

Family feud rages as Swarovski empire loses its lustre

Normally, 650,000 tourists flock to the site in the town of Wattens in Austria’s mountainous Tyrol region every year.But the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t only left it deserted — it has also magnified much deeper issues for the company.

Exactly 125 years after founder Daniel Swarovski developed a machine to cut glass to shimmer like diamonds, his great-great grandchildren now reign over a diversified operation — offering rhinestones to fashion brands, binoculars to hunters, and jewellery and crystal figurines of characters from Mickey Mouse to Princess Leia.But CEO Robert Buchbauer says drastic change is now needed.”We are forced to reimagine and rescale our entire Swarovski business,” Buchbauer tells AFP at the Wattens HQ, framed by a selection of Swarovski-embellished robes.

UK consumer confidence rises again in April but is still negative – GfK

“There’s a sudden flowering of optimism”, says data company GfK, with the overall consumer confidence index score increasing six points this month (to a -30 reading), marking the third successive rise this year.There were big improvements seen elsewhere, led by an eight-point jump in how we see the 12-month prospects for our Personal Financial Situation (at -21, albeit two points worse than April 2022), reflecting “a dramatic change that might suggest household finances are stronger than we thought”, it said. คำพูดจาก สล็อตpg

The General Savings Index, although down two points this month (to +19) is still nine points higher than this time last year.The brighter views on what …

U.S. expected to impose up to $60 billion in China tariffs by Friday

One business source, who has discussed the issue with the administration, said that the China tariffs may be subject to a public comment period, which would delay their effective date and allow industry groups and companies to lodge objections.This would be considerably different from the quick implementation of the steel and aluminum tariffs, which are set to go into effect on March 23, just 15 days after President Donald Trump signed the proclamations.

A delayed approach could allow time for negotiations with Beijing to try to resolve trade issues related to the administration’s “Section 301” probe into China’s intellectual property practices before tariffs take effect.The White House declined to comment Monday. China has vowed to take retaliatory measures in response.Re…