Swiss firm Richemont , maker of Cartier watches and Piaget jewellery, said it will spin off its stake in British American Tobacco under a revamp prompted by tax changes.
A Zimbabwean government minister accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday of trying to bribe African leader to condemn the southern African country's presidential run-off election.
Swiss watch exports grew by 14.6 percent in May on an annual basis to a value of 1.5 billion Swiss francs (929 million euros), the Swiss Watchmaking Federation (FH) said Thursday June 17th.
Sporting a Rolex watch and Gucci sunglasses, Amir Ashkan, 28, is proudly cruising down one of Tehran's main avenues in a sparkling new BMW as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
In a hip art gallery in a San Francisco neighborhood teeming with Internet firms, Aliph recently unveiled a slim new Jawbone earpiece crafted to blend high-technology with haute couture.
Luxury watch brand Vacheron Constantin said Wednesday April 10th it had turned to security features more commonly used in bank notes and passports in its fight against counterfeiting.
Time waits for no man, or woman -- even a queen, as Marie-Antoinette found to her cost amid the tumult of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century.
International watchmakers opened their annual showcase fair here on Wednesday with a warning that the industry could be undermined "at any time" by turmoil on financial markets.
Police have seized more than 230,000 fake shirts, sports shoes and other fashion items shipped from China in the biggest-ever haul of its kind in Spain, the economy ministry said Thursday March 11th.
Lives are at risk because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is woefully behind in the latest scientific advances and is under funded, a panel of advisers to the agency said at a public meeting on Monday.
Finnish customs arrested five European and African citizens as they were trying to smuggle fake brand watches and mobile phone components destined to the Spanish and Polish markets, the Finnish authorities said on Wednesday, July 25th.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said July, Tuesday 14th it is considering an arrangement with Italian luxury goods designer Giorgio Armani to develop new premium products.
