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Food & Drink

Lidl’s Chef Love

London – Discount supermarket chain Lidl has announced a partnership with a Michelin-starred chef.

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Design

Just right hospitality: Boutique hotel finds a home in Dublin

Dublin – When it comes to hotel options in the Irish capital, it can be a bit of a Goldilocks situation – the choices are limited to either business boring or party-crazed hostel. But a new hotel, The Dean, aims to bring together the aspiration of the former with the spirit, and prices, of the latter.

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Food & Drink

Stylish sibling: The Ivy opens sister restaurant and bar

London – One of the city’s great dining institutions, The Ivy, has opened a new restaurant and bar offering affordable luxury to the next generation of London literati.

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Fashion

Arcadia chief buys stake in Australian online discount retailer

Sir Philip Green has acquired 25% of flash sale fashion retailer MySale.

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Luxury

Move over luxurians, meet the mass-affluent HENRYs

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Luxury

Chinese luxurians

Amid rumours of a slowdown in the national economy, the luxury market in China is in rude good health. By 2015, China’s consumers will account for one-third of a global market for luxury goods estimated at around $175bn (€135bn, £114bn), according to management consultants McKinsey.

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Marketing & Branding

Lather up: Men's soap line is cream of the crop

New York – New York-based retailer Hudson Made has launched Beard and Shave, a collection of soaps that can be used by bearded and clean-shaven men alike.