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…

Tattoos are making their mark on luxury watches

Hublot, one of the brands belonging to French luxury group LVMH, has recently joined forces with Swiss tattooist Maxime Büchi, to revamp one of its flagship models, set to hit directional watch stores sometime in October. This limited edition timepiece will be priced at €18,600, and will dispense with hands to tell the time. Instead, it will rely on a set of overlapping octagonal disks inspired by the geometric patterns loved by the tatoo artist known for having tattooed US rapper Kanye West.At the beginning of September, French watch-maker Bell & Ross started sales of a square watch with a dial in the shape of a skull and crossbones , priced at €6,900). Its steel case is decorated with finely engraved flames, which are then painted in black varnish, recalling ink used by tattoo …

Xinjiang cotton at crossroads of China’s new Silk Road

Xinjiang fits into Beijing’s larger vision of shifting labour intensive industries such as textiles out of the Pearl River Delta and into the interior. China is putting less value on being “the world’s workshop” amid labour shortages and competitive pressures from Southeast Asia.The textile hub is also a key initiative in President Xi Jinping’s “one belt, one road” initiative, the new silk road and economic belt spreading from Western China to Central Asia and onwards to Europe.คำพูดจาก Game Casino

More immediately, Beijing is offering the carrot of jobs and development, even as it wields a harsh stick against Uighur separatism.”We must promote employment as a permanent cure to maintain so…

France, joining Germany, urges halt to Transatlantic trade talks

Matthias Fekl said he would request a halt to negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on behalf of France at next month’s meeting of European Union trade ministers in Bratislava.”There should be an absolute clear end so that we can restart them on good basis,” he said on RMC Radio, adding he would suggest that course to fellow ministers.

German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday that TTIP negotiations had effectively failed after Europe refused to accept some U.Sคำพูดจาก Nhà Cái Casino Online. demands.The comments put the EU’s two biggest economies at odds with both the official line from the European Commission, the bloc’s executive, and t…