MARKETING

LVMH, the world's biggest luxury group, has acquired Swiss watch dial maker ArteCad.

Even the online shopping Web sites are way ahead in the best price race, by offering the finest deals, free shipping and other attractive offers to its customers online. The early bird and Super Saturday offers add even more excitement to the biggest shopping day of the year.

Online coupon company WhaleShark Media has raised $150 million in financing from JP Morgan and Institutional Venture Partners.

Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has banned a magazine advertisement for a fragrance featuring teenage actress Dakota Fanning because it could be seen to sexualize a child.

Wholesale companies reduced their stockpiles in September for the first time in nearly two years as distributors tried to keep pace with sales that rose more than forecast.

Caribou Coffee Inc. posted a 11.2 percent increase in third-quarter earnings on significant increases from coffeehouse sales, commercial sales and franchise sales

Chief marketing officers at U.S. retailers are cautious heading into the holiday season, though those at larger chains are a bit more optimistic about their prospects, according to a survey conducted by BDO USA.

Find out the best early winter vacation deals on airfare and cruises, before you pay too much.

The nation's drivers got a brief reprieve at the pump this month, but a tank of gas promises to be costly again with Thanksgiving weekend on its way. Gas prices have fallen 5 cents a gallon overall in the last three weeks, to an average of $3.43

To some shopping addicts, there is nothing quite like the sound of free coupon to help heal a case of the Mondays. A 20 percent off coupon for Bloomingdale's? Now that could make up for a whole year of Mondays.

Discover the United States of Awesome Possibilities with America's first-ever unified campaign to lure in international tourists from Brand USA.

The long heralded ideal of mass customization by luxury and fashion retailers across the world has finally been made possible, with the introduction of the special interactive program by fashion house, Burberry.

Sales of luxury products in India are expected to rise almost 20 percent every year until 2015, according to a new report by the Confederation of Indian Industry and A.T. Kearney Ltd.

CEO Andrew Mason is expected to make millions on the initial public offering of Groupon.

Daily deals company Groupon, Inc. is expected to start trading on Nasdaq Nov.4 after it raised $700 million from its initial public offering, thereby becoming the largest IPO by an Internet company since Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) raised $1.7 billion in 2004.

Daily deals website Groupon announced late Thursday its initial public offering of 35 million Class A shares Thursday at the price of $20 per share, giving the company a market value of $12.7 billion. The company also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 5.2 million shares of the Class A stock to cover over-allotments.

Groupon Inc is set to raise $700 million in its initial public offering after the largest daily deals company increased the price and size of the deal on strong demand.

This year's American Film Market kicks off in Santa Monica Wednesday with 10 percent more buyers than last year and 415 films up for grabs.

Business software maker Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) may be setting its sights on Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) but the deal may not be an imminent one, according to an analyst at Global Equities Research.

A look at the unsecured debts left behind in the wake of MF Global's bankruptcy show a surprising number of trade credit was owed to media companies.

Black Friday will be starting earlier this year. Both Macy's and Target have announced that their doors will open at midnight after Thanksgiving. When the clock strikes 12:00 a.m. on Friday Nov. 25, the Black Friday midnight madness will begin.