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Calida posts rise in full year sales

Adjusted for exchange rate effects, the Calida Group said, consolidated net sales increased year on year by 1.7 percent to 404.3 million Swiss francs (427.8 million dollars) in 2019. The company added that in the reporting year, 50.9 million Swiss francs (53.8 million dollars) of the sales were generated by the group as a whole, corresponding to...

Mar 6, 2020

Management

Calida Group records strong growth in 2018

The Calida Group recorded consolidated net sales increase in the reporting year of 7.6 percent from to 409.5 million Swiss francs (410 million dollars), while adjusted for exchange rate effects, the increase came to 4.1 percent. Net income increased 5.3 percent on the prior year to 17.8 million Swiss francs (17.8 million dollars). The company...

Mar 1, 2019

Fashion

The world cupped: the inside story of the bra

It rarely sees the light of day but the upscale bra is the most tested, sweated over and highly engineered piece of clothing of all. AFP went behind the scenes at some of the most famous French lingerie houses to draw back the veil on the almost exclusively feminine world of bra making. No other item of clothing provokes such fierce emotions....

Jan 21, 2019

Fashion

Lingerie looks for new bottom line after #MeToo

"We haven't yet found a better way of selling knickers than a beautiful bottom," says Sarah Stagliano, one of a new breed of French lingerie designers grappling with how to make exciting underwear in the age of #MeToo. With G-strings and push-up bras losing their allure as ultra sexiness gives ways to comfort, and the whole idea of seduction...

Jan 17, 2019