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Ecommerce luxury goods platform ‘The Luxury Closet’ closes £8.5m funding round with expansion to Hong Kong

Dubai-based luxury goods platform The Luxury Closet has announced it has raised £1.8m in funding in its latest funding round as it enters operations in Hong Kong following the purchase of Guitless.com.   In a statement this week, the ecommerce company that sells used fashion items announced that the funding will boost its global expansion […]

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Plane-hailing ‘Uber of the skies’ app raises $10m to make chartering private planes easy

The Executive reports on what could be an exciting development in making the chartering of private flights easier and more accessible.  Chartering private jets could soon become as simple as ordering an Uber as BlackBird, a start-up often dubbed as the ‘Uber for planes’ announced that it has secured $10m. The funding comes from venture

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Chinese billionaires dominate economic gender parity this International Women’s Day

To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, The Executive Magazine takes a look at how women factor into the world’s wealthiest billionaires list. Today’s International Women’s Day will rightly spur much debate around the importance of closing the gender pay gap that permeates almost every industry globally, with men often taking up the majorit…  

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Debt recovery: the case for a customer-centric approach

Monica Mackintosh, customer services director of Echo Managed Services discusses a worrying rise in the use of bailiffs for debt recovery in local authorities. Levels of UK debt are increasingly on the rise. Indeed, recent estimates from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have warned that household arrears are escalating at…   Subscribe To Continue

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Why Procurement is the best friend you never knew you had

Misunderstood, sometimes peripheral, always underrated: Procurement executives are the business world’s very own goth music scene. And just like the great goth bands, they had their heyday when things were tough.   After the 2008 crash, when CFOs were busy turning budgets into confetti, it was frequently their counterparts in procurement t…   Subscribe To

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