New Look fashions a merger for French ops

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: December 6, 2000| Author: JIM ARMITAGE | Copyright information

TELL your daughters not to go hunting for New Look stores on their next trip to France. The British-owned fashion retailer is merging its French operations with bigger rival Mim and scrapping the New Look brand there.

New Look, which has 27 shops in northern France, has not reached critical mass in the country since launching in 1988. The French outlets last year made an 800,000 loss on sales of 10.1 million.

Under today's deal, Mim and New Look France will be put together in a...

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