Luxury goods

Accessible luxury retailer Coach (NYSE: COH) will announce its holiday quarter earnings shortly, so I wanted to set things up beforehand in typical Real Deal style. One key to being a successful investor is averting disasters in the portfolio by properly fitting pieces of a puzzle (macro plus...

Iconic fashion house Prada, in its bid to raise more than $2.5 billion in an initial public offering, has generated five times demand for its offer, a source told Reuters on Sunday. Prada is only the latest company to announce its intention to go public in 2011, following a noticeable uptick in...

Prada, the iconic fashion house based in Milan, Italy, is preparing a $2 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to a filing. The company expects to hit a profit of at least $215 million for the six months through June, likely boosting expansion and renovation of its stores when its...

Luxury handbag maker Louis Vuitton surprised investors earlier this month. It appears that the venerable French brand is closing the doors of its flagship store on Paris‘s Champs-Elysées an hour early this fall. Is the high-end retail boutique another victim of a bad economy? Not exactly. As it...

While discount retailers like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT)(FREE stock trend analysis) and CostCo (NYSE: COST)(FREE stock trend analysis) cut prices and make hay in the recession, the decision to reduce prices is much harder for luxury-goods retailers to make. Glamorous shoe designer Anyi Lu has cut its...