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• EXCLUSIVE-Qatar eyes stake in Milan's new skyscraper city Friday, 12 Apr 2013 | 10:48 AM ET

  April 12- Qatar is in talks to buy some or all of Milan's newly built Porta Nuova business district as Italy's economic crisis squeezes its U.S. developer, several sources have told Reuters.

• UPDATE 2-Germany's JAB to buy Douwe Egberts firm in $9.8 bln deal Friday, 12 Apr 2013 | 5:49 AM ET

  *JAB aims to close gap on coffee leaders Nestle, Mondelez. AMSTERDAM, April 12- German investor Joh A Benckiser is to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee in a 7.5- billion-euro deal to create a global hot drinks empire aimed at taking on market leaders Nestle and Mondelez.

• Fashion Parade: The Official EU Rain Poncho  Friday, 12 Apr 2013 | 3:55 AM ET

  

  Julia Chatterley models the official Eurogroup poncho ahead of the European finance ministers' meeting in Dublin

• Hong Kong shares may suffer 3rd straight day of losses Sunday, 7 Apr 2013 | 9:18 PM ET

  HONG KONG, April 8- Hong Kong shares may record a third-straight day of declines on Monday, tracking Friday's Wall Street losses after underwhelming U.S. jobs data stoked worries about the recovery in the world's largest economy.

• UPDATE 4-Douwe Egberts coffee group gets $8.2 bln bid from German firm Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 5:21 PM ET

  *Says JAB proposing 12.75 euros per share. AMSTERDAM, March 28- D.E Master Blenders 1753 said on Thursday it received a 6.4- billion-euro takeover offer from German investor Joh A Benckiser, sending shares of the Dutch coffee and tea maker up more than 25 percent.

• CORRECTED-UPDATE 3-German investor eyes $8.2 bln bid for Douwe Egberts firm Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 4:28 PM ET

  AMSTERDAM, March 28- German investor Joh A Benckiser is in talks over a 6.4- billion-euro deal to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee and bolster its position in a hot drinks industry benefiting from innovation and emerging market growth.

• UPDATE 2-German investor eyes $8.2bln bid for Douwe Egberts firm Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 7:41 AM ET

  AMSTERDAM, March 28- German investor Joh A Benckiser is in talks over a 6.4- billion-euro deal to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee and bolster its position in a hot drinks industry benefiting from innovation and emerging market growth.

• Fashioning Chinese Brands  Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 9:50 PM ET

  

  Marjorie Yang, Chairman of Esquel Group discusses the trends of fashion made in China.

• Vera Wang Scraps 'Try-On Fee' at China Stores   Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 7:20 PM ET

  

  In response to global outcry, the queen of bridal couture, Vera Wang, is abolishing the near $500 fee for Chinese brides-to-be to try on garments at her Shanghai bridal boutique.

• Hyundai courts brand prestige with Hermes model makeover Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 5:13 PM ET

  *Previous branding effort with Prada flopped. *Hyundai trying to compete at home against BMW, Mercedes.

• Aeropostale fails in bid to end shareholder lawsuit Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 1:06 PM ET

  March 26- Aeropostale Inc lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the teen clothing retailer of defrauding shareholders in 2011 by hiding problems with excess inventory and slow sales that ultimately weighed on its earnings and stock price.

• Kate Spade crafts Saturday brand for Japan's trendsetters Friday, 22 Mar 2013 | 3:32 AM ET

  TOKYO, March 22- Given Kate Spade Saturday's bold designs, bright colours and creative flair, it was probably only fitting that the new lifestyle brand opened its first flagship store in fashion-obsessed Tokyo.

• Plastic? In stricken Cyprus, cash is king Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 2:08 PM ET

  *Cyprus scrambling to avert a financial meltdown. In Cyprus, cash is king. "I plan to have at least 1,000 euros on me at all times," Constantinos Tsissios, a 34- year-old banker, said at a downtown ATM in the capital, Nicosia.

• H&M Speeds Up Expansion Despite Profit Miss Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 3:20 AM ET

  

  H&M, the world's second-biggest fashion retailer, posted a slightly bigger drop than expected in first quarter pretax earnings.

• Retailers Settle 'Faux Faux Fur' Flap. Got That? Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 11:42 AM ET

  

  Animal protection groups are applauding the settlement of federal claims that Neiman Marcus and two other retailers had marketed real fur as fake, The New York Times reports.

• FEATURE-Drinks companies cheer ladies' nights in India Sunday, 17 Mar 2013 | 5:11 PM ET

  MUMBAI, March 18- Women who drink, long portrayed as less than respectable by Bollywood movies and still wary of entering most watering holes, are becoming big business in socially conservative India.

• Inditex to Remain Strong: Expert  Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 5:00 AM ET

  

  Allegra Perry, luxury research managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald, tells CNBC that the fall in Inditex's share price is a small correction but she expects their growth figures to remain solid.

• Last call for Neiman Marcus's eBay store Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 6:14 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO, March 8- Luxury department store operator Neiman Marcus is shutting its eBay Inc store, a setback for the e-commerce company, which has been trying to lure large retailers to its online marketplace.

• Spain's Ortega leaps to rank as world's third richest man -Forbes Monday, 4 Mar 2013 | 7:00 AM ET

  NEW YORK, March 4- Spain's Amancio Ortega, the co-founder of the Inditex fashion group, leapt over Warren Buffett and France's Bernard Arnault to become the world's third richest person on Forbes' 2013 annual ranking of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $57 billion.

• Gaultier variety show presents rocker runway chic in Paris Saturday, 2 Mar 2013 | 5:13 PM ET

  PARIS, March 2- Jean Paul Gaultier served up a fun, funky patchwork of outfits for his ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris on Saturday where a heavy emphasis on leather and rocker chic added to the anything goes Bohemian style.