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Esprit Holdings Ltd intends a stock buyback
Original at AlacraStore.com
• Wed, Nov 11
HONG KONG - In ## November ####, the board of Esprit Holdings Ltd (Esprit), a Kowloon-based manufacturer and wholesaler of apparel and accessories for women, men and children, authorized the repurchase of up to ###.### mil ordinary shares, or about ##% of the company's entire share capi...
HK Hot Stocks - Esprit, Sichuan Expre...
Original at Forbes
• Tue, Aug 18
HK Hot Stocks - Esprit, Sichuan Expressway gain HONG KONG, Aug 19 (Reuters) - By 0250 GMT the benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 0.2 percent at 20261.31. The China Enterprises Index, which represents top ... and more »
Asian Shares Mixed; China Market Jitt...
Original at MarketWatch
• Tue, Aug 18
Asian Shares Mixed; China Market Jitters Weigh Esprit was up 4.5% after data Tuesday showed expectations for the German economy at their brightest since April 2006. In Taiwan, PC component makers were ... and more »
Hong Kong crawls out of recession
Original at Daily Finance
• Fri, Aug 14
Today's winning stocks were led by Esprit, which surged 8.1 percent to HK$61.70 and Li & Fung Ltd, (Wal-Mart Stores' largest supplier of clothes and toys), ... and more »
Stocks May Fight to Retain Late-week ...
Original at RTT News
• Fri, Aug 14
Stocks May Fight to Retain Late-week Buoyancy Esprit Holdings surged up 8.09% and Li & Fung jumped 9.23% after the latter reported that its net profit for the year to June rose to 1.4 billion Hong Kong ... and more »
Asian markets rise
Original at AsiaOne
• Fri, Aug 14
Export-oriented retailer Esprit soared 8.1 percent to 61.70. Yanzhou Coal Mining rose 2.3 percent to 12.40 and China Merchants Bank jumped 3.4 percent to ... and more »
Esprit Holdings Ltd.
Original at AlacraStore.com
• Sat, Aug 8
Wholesale: Investment holding company with group companies engaged in retail and wholesale trade in fashion products.
Hong Kong stocks track mainland losses to end lower
Original at Xinhua
• Wed, Aug 5
Esprit Holdings bucked the trend to gain 2.15 percent at 56.9 HK dollars after recent recommendation by Credit Suisse. (7.8 HK dollars = 1 US dollars) and more »
Esprit: Have "Immaterial" Bad Debt Exposure To Arcandor Unit
Original at Wall Street Journal
• Thu, Jun 11
HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Esprit Holdings Ltd. (0330.HK) said Thursday it has "immaterial" bad debt exposure to Karstadt GmbH, a retail unit of German retailer Arcandor AG (ARO.XE), which has filed for insolvency. Esprit didn't disclose the size of the ...
Chinese Stocks Send HSI Above 18000
Original at quamnet.com
• Sat, May 30
Hong Kong Hang Seng Bank (11) rose by nearly 7%, Bank of East Asia (23) rose by more than 3% while BOC Hong Kong (2388) soared by nearly 11%. Apart from Li & Fung (494), stocks in the export sector were gaining as Esprit Holdings (330) rose by nearly 2% while ...
Esprit posts 6 pct growth in 9-mth retail store sales
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Tue, May 12
• 8 related articles
UK HONG KONG, May 13 (Reuters) - Fashion retailer Esprit Holdings Ltd on Wednesday said retail store sales rose 6 percent year on year for the nine months ended March 31, of which Europe posted the biggest increase of 6.9 percent. ...
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Hong Kong shares seen down on consolidation
Original at iii.co.uk
• Tue, May 12
The benchmark Hang Seng Index on Tuesday finished up 0.4 percent, or 65.69 points, at 17153.64, while the China Enterprises Index of top mainland companies was down 0.43 percent at 9722.22. FASHION RETAILER ESPRIT HOLDINGS LTD SAID ON Wednesday its ...
Hang Seng Index notches 7th day of gains
Original at London Stock Exchange
• Fri, May 8
There were also falls for consumer goods exporter Li & Fung and fashion retailer Esprit as investors reacted to a pessimistic outlook from the World Retail Congress in Barcelona. Li & Fung fell 4.4 per cent to HK$21.65, Esprit dropped 5.1 per cent to ...
iShares Hong Kong (EWH): 'Gateway to China'
Original at BloggingStocks
• Mon, Apr 20
Cheung Kong, one of the largest developers of residential, office, retail, industrial, and hotel property in Hong Kong. CLP Holdings, one of the largest electric utilities in Asia and the largest electricity provider in Hong Kong. Esprit Holdings ...
HSBC New Shares Lead HSI Up by 400
Original at quamnet.com
• Fri, Apr 10
Hong Kong The FTSE Xinhua 25 Index announced a change after the market close that China Mer Hold (144) was no longer a constituent stock, dragging down its share price by 1.2% against the market. Esprit Holdings (330) remained affected by the change in ...
Esprit kündigt Wechsel an der Firmenspitze an
Original at Finanzen.net
• Tue, Apr 7
Germany Kowloon (aktiencheck.de AG) - Der in Hongkong ansässige Bekleidungshersteller Esprit Holdings Ltd. (ISIN BMG3122U1291/ WKN 888946) hat einen Wechsel an der Firmenspitze angekündigt. Wie das Unternehmen mitteilte, wird Ronald van der Vis ab dem 1. ...
Lasting impressions
Original at AsiaOne
• Mon, Apr 6
That's why folks head to one of the many warehouse/outlet shopping spots in Hong Kong. The list is long, ranging from premium labels to mass market ones like Esprit and sports brands such as Nike and Adidas. A good bet is Horizon Plaza (2 Lee Wing ...
PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - April 6
Original at Reuters
• Sun, Apr 5
Fashion retailer Esprit (0330.HK) said it will exit seven countries in Europe this year and expand its number of franchises at a slower rate than before. -- Bank of East Asia (0023.HK) is in talks with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398. ...
How to become an Eco Baron
Original at mnn.com
• Tue, Mar 31
GA That’s the path taken by both Doug Tompkins, the founder of North Face and Esprit who cashed out to buy up huge chunks of Chile for preservation, and Roxanne Quimby, who sold Burt’s Bees to Clorox to purchase big parts of Maine for a gigantic park. ...
Asia: Nikkei falls ahead of stimulus details
Original at ShareCast
• Tue, Mar 31
UK Meanwhile shares in clothing giant Esprit lost its grip on earlier gains as traders digested news the group is talks with a potential successor to chief executive officer Heinz Krogner. Elsewhere figures out Tuesday showed home prices in Hong Kong rose ...
Esprit Considers CEO Candidate; Krogner Hasn’t Quit
Original at Bloomberg
• Mon, Mar 30
By Stephanie Wong March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Esprit Holdings Ltd., the biggest clothier listed in Hong Kong, is in talks with a “potential candidate” to succeed Chief Executive Officer Heinz Krogner. The potential successor is currently chief operating ...
HK Hot Stocks- Esprit gains, Alibaba slumps
Original at Forbes
• Thu, Mar 19
NY HONG KONG, March 20 (Reuters) - By 0415 GMT the benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 1.2 percent at 12977.90. The China Enterprises Index of top mainland firms was 1.5 percent lower at 7618.78. Merrill Lynch rated the stock a buy and set its target price ...
Interview with Asim Buksh
Original at Daily Times
• Sat, Mar 7
Pakistan Red Earth cosmetics which was founded in Australia in 1989 and acquired by the Esprit Group in 2001. They have outlets in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. Swatch whose watches are hi-tech, cutting edge and innovative. Exist, introduced by Usman Buksh, ...
HK shares gain 0.9 pct to buck downtrend in region
Original at Reuters
• Thu, Feb 5
HONG KONG, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares rose 0.9 percent on Thursday, defying losses in other major Asian markets, amid increasing hopes for new support measures from China. But Esprit Holdings (0330.HK), the world's No. ...
PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - Feb 5
Original at Reuters
• Wed, Feb 4
• 6 related articles
- Esprit International (0330.HK) has reported its first profit decline in the past 10 years. Its interim net profit to end-Dec fell 13 percent from the ...
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The lost lagoon
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Fri, Nov 28
UK - Nov 28, 2008 Nearby, the controversial millionaire Douglas Tompkins, who made his money from The North Face and Esprit clothing labels, has bought more than half a ...
New Esprit Outlet opened | virtualreview.org
Original at virtualreview
• Sun, Nov 2
By vr@virtualreview.org New Esprit Outlet opened. At the China Ferry Terminal/Royal Pacific Hotel.been meaning to update everyone here.It looks big,... ...full story at Trip Advisor. from Trip Advisor on Sun, Nov 02 2008. see also: ...
Esprit in talks for 51% India JV with Madura says paper
Original at WGSN
• Fri, Oct 24
Hong Kong based apparel giant Esprit Holdings is mulling taking a 51% stake in a joint venture with Madura Garments, part of the AV Birla Group, which manages Esprit's retail stores through a licensing agreement in India.
Arrangements For Adjustment Of Esprit Holdings Futures, Options
Original at HULIQ
• Tue, Oct 21
By ruzik_tuzik Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced the arrangements for the adjustment to the contract terms of all open Esprit Holdings Limited (ESP) futures and options contracts in existence after the market close on 25 ...
Is Indian market ready for virtual fashion onslaught?
Original at watch.com
• Sat, Oct 11
By Sebastian In the past few years, noted international luxury brands including Louis Vuitton, Moschino, Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Boss Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Salvatore Ferragamo, Aigner, Estée Lauder, Esprit and Bottega Veneta have set shop in Mumbai.
Happening Hong Kong!
Original at New Straits Times
• Mon, Sep 22
Malaysia - If you don’t have bargaining skills, stick to malls like Citygate Outlet which houses floors of factory outlets for Esprit, Timberland, Nike and many more. ...
Timeline: History of Esprit
Original at Women's Wear Daily
• Wed, Sep 17
- Sep 17, 2008 Esprit Far East Group begins when Doug and Susie Tompkins meet Michael Ying, who would become the group’s chairman and a shareholder of Esprit. ...
Q & A with Tamotsu Yagi
Original at Women's Wear Daily
• Wed, Sep 17
Q & A with Tamotsu Yagi - Sep 17, 2008 by WWD Staff In the late Seventies, design-conscious Esprit co-owner Doug Tompkins put together a top-notch team to hone the brand’s image and reach a wider ...
Timeline: History of Esprit
Original at Women's Wear Daily
• Wed, Sep 17
Esprit is founded as Susie and Doug Tompkins start selling clothes bearing the new brand out of the back of their station wagon in San Francisco.
Esprit Pioneered High Concept Retail
Original at Women's Wear Daily
• Wed, Sep 17
Doug Tompkins was an early innovator for in-store shop space.
Esprit leads slump in HK blue chips
Original at South China Morning Post
• Mon, Sep 1
Hong Kong stocks slumped yesterday, starting the month off on a dismal note after investors shunned the market following a run of negative news from overseas economies.
Hong Kong shares close down 1.67pc
Original at The Standard
• Mon, Sep 1
680 News Hong Kong - Sep 1, 2008 The Hang Seng index closed down 355.58 points at 20906.31. Turnover was very low at HK$41.11 billion. Clothes retailer Esprit extended its poor performance ... MOST E-MAILED RTT News MOST E-MAILED RTT News all 153 news articles
Save the planet? Buy it
Original at Science Pal
• Mon, Aug 18
• 4 related articles
By jeff It is pretty hard for a country to turn down a gift of 300000 hectares [740000 acres],' says Douglas Tompkins, 65, the American-born founder of Esprit and The North Face. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Tompkins amassed a ...
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2008-08-12 05:27:02 - Esprit Holdings Limited - SWOT Analysis - a ... - PR-Inside.com
Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)
• Mon, Aug 11
2008-08-12 05:27:02 - Esprit Holdings Limited - SWOT Analysis - a ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Aug 11, 2008 It is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong and employed about 9600 people as on 30 June 2007. The group recorded revenues of HK$29640 million (approximately ...
For The North Face, (eco)Life begins at 40
Original at Treehugger
• Mon, Aug 11
Aside from discussing a small project in greening a retail store, (and the old connection to Esprit’s Ecollection and Parque Pumalin in Patagonia) we haven’t made much mention of outdoor clothing and equipment company, The North Face, ...
Susie Tompkins Buell: Plutocrat Cheapskate
Original at Gay Species
• Sun, Aug 3
By The Gay Species Susie Tompkins Buell was the founder and co-owner of the Esprit de Corps clothing company, which she plundered in more ways than one. The NLRB found Esprit to have illegally interrogated and intimidated $2-an-hour Chinese workers, ...
Summer Marathon
Original at celeni (Livejournal)
• Sat, Jun 28
By Celeni // cK The Store Staples - Of course, there’s the store staples in Hong Kong: Esprit, Giordano, Sasa [for cosmetics]. Practically at every street corner. But it will be wise to purchase stuff from Outlet stores. Sa Esprit Outlet kami nag-cram ...
343 - Earth's Tree News
Original at olyecology weblog
• Tue, May 20
By olyecology Tompkins himself went on to found and sell outdoor-gear maker North Face in the 1960s. In 1968, he started fashion company Esprit Holdings Ltd. with his first wife. He gave up his Esprit holdings for $200 million in 1989. ...
Esprit Ecollection Clothing: Ahead of Their Time? : TreeHugger
Original at Treehugger
• Mon, May 19
The other day in profiling the company Terrapax, we suggested that Nau was not, strictly speaking, ‘ahead of its time’, but rather they were treading a path laid down by eco-pioneers, well over a decade ago. Today we take.
Terrapax Bags: Ahead of Their Time? : TreeHugger
Original at Treehugger
• Mon, May 12
In future posts we’ll also visit the likes of Deja Shoe and Esprit Ecollection, but we begin with Terrapax. In 1992, James Cox, who’d been a design director at the North Face, struck out on his own to produce a line of planet and people ...
HK stocks grow on budget hopes
Original at China Trade Information
• Tue, Feb 12
Esprit, a Hong Kong-based global clothing retailer, advanced HK$4.05, or 4.3 percent, to HK$97.55. Sa Sa International Holdings Ltd, the city’s largest cosmetics retailer, rose three cents, or one percent, to HK$3.08. ...
Esprit Spring 2008 is Exposed
Original at ButterBoom Hong Kong's Daily
• Mon, Feb 11
By Cassidy Check out what you’ll find at Esprit now. Espirt’s Spring/Summer 2008 line for men and women is out now. For a Hong Kong company, it’s weird that their website doesn’t even have a Hong Kong section? All the new images are currently only ...
Esprit Now Live with i2 Solutions for Enhanced Global Planning ...
Original at Manufacturing & Logistics IT Magazine
• Tue, Oct 9
Esprit is listed on the Hong Kong and London stock exchanges and is a constituent stock in the Hang Seng Index, MSCI Hong Kong Index, FTSE All-World Index for Hong Kong and S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index and S&P Asia 50 Index. About i2 ...
This (Wet)Land is My Land
Original at Hit and Run
• Mon, Jun 11
By kmw@reason.com (Katherine Mangu-Ward) My kind of environmentalist: Douglas Tompkins, the American founder of North Face and Esprit clothing is "trying to save the planet by buying bits of it." He has already bought "a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina":
Honesty In Media Matters - Doesn't It??
Original at Winds of Change.NET
• Sat, Apr 14
And following the Sourcewatch link to 'Democracy Alliance' we get: "Members of the Democracy Alliance include billionaires like George Soros and his son Jonathan Soros, former Rockefeller Family Fund president Anne Bartley, San Francisco Bay Area donors Susie Tompkins Buell and Ma...