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a small scale, in Japan, where it will take over its own apparel license in 2015. The company now operates four stores in the country which have seen double-digit sales growth in the first half. from 3.08 billion pounds in the year-earlier period, the company said. That met the 3.26 billion-pound average estimate of 18 analysts surveyed by the company. Burberry Earnings Burberry added 1.9 percent to 1,489 pence. The U.K.’s largest luxury-goods maker Discount Louis Vuitton said first-half earnings were r - Britain enlisting photographer Bert Stern, Italy enlisting Newton. Until then, the project had been handled solely by the UK arm of the company. A slight ruckus ensued as to which version would be published.

 Coincidentally, Newton had to abandon his project mid-way through shooting due to personal issues, and as such the commission was won by his contemporary Stern. READ: 50 years of the Pirelli calendar Nevertheless, Newton's vision was completed by his faithful assistants Manuela Pavesi and Xavier Alloncle - to his precise specifications - little changed as the start of its own beauty business and weaker wholesale revenue offset growth in Gucci cluthesretail sales. Adjusted pretax profit for the six months ended Sept. 30 was 173.9 million pounds compared with 173.4

million pounds a year earlier, the Hermes Kelly 35company said today, less than a month after forecasting that the earnings would be around last year’s level. Ahrendts has long said that she’s focused more on profit growth than revenue growth, but net profit declined 3.5% to £254 million ($388 million) in the first half, largely because of investments being made in Burberry’s beauty business, which is expected to generate wholesale revenue of about £140 million (about $225 million) and incremental retail/wholesale profit of around £10 million for full-year 2014. Burberry is planning to close 15 stores and open 25 more next year, most of which will be in the emerging luxury markets of China and Latin America.