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Fcuk to expand product offerings in India

Fcuk is expanding its offering in India to add sleep and loungewear. As Mohini Tillu, Senior Manager of Modern Trade at Fcuk, explains they are currently working on expanding the product range to add sleep and loungewear as well as “different fabric structures, finishes, washes which are different and outstanding from common innerwear products....

Business

FCUK license up for sale in India

Brand Marketing India (BMI) is trying to sell the FCUK business in India. BMI is FCUK’s existing license holder in India. The Murjani Group is the owner of Brand Marketing India, the holding company in the country for London’s French Connection that owns the FCUK brand. The group, which was known for its retail presence and launching several...

Business

Rupa gets exclusive rights for FCUK innerwear in India

Oban Fashions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rupa & Co, entered into a definitive licence agreement with French Connection Limited (FCUK) to manufacture and sell its products. Under the agreement, Oban Fashions will have the right to develop, manufacture, market and sell the innerwear and related products with the brand name FCUK in India. Rupa...

Fashion

Worried apparel retailers prepone discount sale season

Worried single brand retailers such as French Connection, FCUK, Regal, Guess, Puma and Fila have pre-poned the sale season this summer. The brands have gone ahead and started discounted sales in the last week of June, two or three weeks ahead of the usual schedule to cash in on the current consumer sentiment. They fear that the economic slowdown...

Apparel

Early sale season dampen retailer’s mood

With most international brands such as French Connection, FCUK, Regal, Guess, Puma and Fila and domestic apparel retailers announcing their end of season sale almost three weeks in advance, consumers are back to shopping. Of course, retailers are not too happy though because while they are trying to get rid of piled up inventories through sale,...

Apparel

Facebook deletes FCUK India page

Companies luring users to click on the Facebook 'Like' button to enter a contest have come under increased scrutiny by the social networking giant that has nearly 700 million users globally and around 31 million users in India. And FCUK India is one of them. Facebook has deleted the pages of big brands like French Connection FCUK India,...

Apparel

BMI launches FCUK underwear in India

French Connection India (FCUK), the truly global high street British fashion brand which has an exclusive license with Brand Marketing India (BMI) launched its exclusive brand of FCUK men’s underwear range in India this month. The FCUK underwear line includes briefs, hip briefs, boxers, trunks and low rise trunks in cotton with a variety of...

Fashion

Retailers woo customers with heavy discounts

With the major festival season in India behind us and winter almost towards the end, most retailers and hyperstores are wooing consumers with hefty discounts of almost 50 per cent off. The long festive season that began with Dussera in October ended with Sankranthi in January. And then there was Repcublic Day, being a national holiday retailers...

Apparel

FCUK announces end of season sale

French Connection UK (FCUK), the edgy and attitudinal British high street fashion brand, is having end of season sale at its outlets in Mumbai, New Delhi, NCR, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ludhiana, Amritsar and Pune. For women there are dazzling dresses, tops, classy accessories and denims. Men have a wide range of...