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Shanghai is home to flagship luxury store

Business | Luxury goods
2009-8-29

FRENCH luxury brand Louis Vuitton said yesterday it plans to open a 2,000-square-meter flagship store, one of the largest in the world, in Shanghai next year as it continues to expand its presence in the world's second-biggest...

Police swoop on fake luxury goods

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-8-11

SHANGHAI police have cracked down on groups specializing in selling fake luxury products, such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton handbags and purses, in a series of actions code named "Eagle Eye II" that seized goods worth...

Court told singer didn't buy fakes

Metro | Courts
2009-4-11

A TAIWANESE man, who was sued by the luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton Malletier for selling counterfeit goods to people, including Canadian singer Celine Dion, claimed that Dion had visited him to have her fortune...

Plan for store in Ginza derailed

Business | Luxury goods
2008-12-17

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, the world's largest luxury-goods maker, said a plan to open a store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district was derailed after it failed to reach an agreement with the building's...

LV fined over missing samples on handbags

National
2008-6-19

LUXURY products maker Louis Vuitton was fined 460,000 yuan (US$66,667) and had 290,000 yuan confiscated for selling products in Hangzhou that fail to meet standards, Xinhuanet.com reported today. The city's Administration...

NZ relief as race 7 postponed

Sport | Sailing
2007-7-2

THE Swiss will have to put the bubbly on ice. The seventh and possibly series-clinching race of the America's Cup was postponed yesterday because of light winds off the Valencia coast in Spain, and will be held...

LVMH discusses plans to buy Les Echos

Business | Luxury goods
2007-6-22

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, the world's largest luxury-goods maker, is in exclusive talks with Pearson Plc to buy French financial newspaper Les Echos. LVMH, which already owns La Tribune, another French...

Kiwis reach Louis Vuitton Cup semis

Sport | Sailing
2007-5-8

EMIRATES Team New Zealand secured its place in the semifinals of the Louis Vuitton Cup in Valencia with an authoritative victory over China Team in its round robin event on Sunday. Barring any jury decisions,...

France's LVMH says Q1 sales rose 7%

Business | Luxury goods
2007-4-25

FRENCH luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA said today first-quarter sales rose 7 percent on robust demand for luxury champagne, perfume and fashion labels. The Paris-based seller of Louis Vuitton...

LV Cup race put off again

Sport | Sailing
2007-4-24

THE Louis Vuitton Cup was postponed again yesterday due to a lack of wind off Valencia in Spain. The wind never reached the minimum level necessary for racing, forcing organizers to halt the America's Cup challengers...