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Fashion Network
25-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Voyado's new majority owner to fund UK growth
Having established itself as a major retail technology provider in the Nordics, the company has recently expanded into the UK, Benelux, and Germany 'helping retailers and brands turn customer and product data into loyalty, optimise e-commerce performance, and personalise the shopping experience across channels'. Since 2022, Voyado said it has achieved an average annual growth rate of 32% and is now a profitable business. This strong trajectory, combined with continued international expansion and a rapidly growing customer base, has resulted in a company valuation of SEK 3.5 billion (£270 million). 'We've never tried to be everything to everyone – we build solutions for a sector we know inside out. That focus on retail is exactly what made Viking see the potential in us,' said Voyado co-founder Johan Bäckarlin. Over the past 18 months, Voyado said it has signed partnerships with several high-profile UK retailers across fashion and lifestyle, including Cutler and Gross, Pour Moi, Ellis Brigham, and Silver Cross. Bäckarlin added: 'With a local team in place and growing commercial traction, the company aims to scale further in the UK by providing retailers with AI-driven solutions for loyalty, personalisation, and product discovery, all tailored specifically for the retail sector.' Voyado CEO Erica Sandelin Ekelund added: '[Our] story in the UK is quickly gaining pace. We're seeing strong demand among retailers for technology that delivers real results, from loyalty and personalisation to smarter product discovery. More businesses are recognising the real impact of loyalty. Our job now is to help even more retailers see the same results.'
Hype Malaysia
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hype Malaysia
Breitling's Superocean Heritage Resurfaces With Sleek New Design & Kelly Slater Collab
Look this way, watch aficionados! The Superocean Heritage is back, and it's looking sharper, sleeker, and more surf-ready than ever. Breitling's most stylish sea watch has officially entered a new era, with a refreshed design that combines vintage character with laid-back modern flair. This marks the first major update to the collection since 2017, and it's making waves with new models, fresh proportions, and collaborations inspired by ocean culture and beachside cool. A Fresh Wave Of Style & Substance The 2025 refresh introduces a tighter lineup of case sizes, ranging from 36 mm to 44 mm, with each model built for versatility and all-day wear. Automatic versions now feature the new in-house Caliber B31, Breitling's latest three-hand movement, offering enhanced precision and a 78-hour power reserve. The 42 mm chronograph returns with the flagship Caliber 01, known for its reliability and top-tier performance. The Superocean Heritage gets a cleaner, sharper look with slimmer ceramic bezels, redesigned spear and arrow hands, and tone-on-tone subdials for better balance and readability. It now comes in a focused palette of black, blue, and green, with matching bezels. Strap options include mesh-metal or mesh-rubber for a sleek, comfortable fit. Select models also feature responsibly sourced 18k red gold accents for a touch of luxury without losing the minimalist vibe. Kelly Slater Limited Edition: A Surf Legend's Tribute To honour surfing's greatest of all time, Breitling has created the Superocean Heritage B31 Automatic 40 Kelly Slater. This limited-edition piece features a deep blue dial with a stamped tropical foliage motif and an open caseback engraved 'One of 500.' Available with a blue rubber strap or stainless-steel mesh bracelet, it comes packaged in a special floral box along with a personal note from Slater himself. 'This watch reflects everything I love,' says Slater. 'The ocean, nature, and the easygoing style I've always connected with.' Eyewear & Flip-Flops To Match Breitling has teamed up with British eyewear icon Cutler and Gross to launch a capsule sunglasses collection that mirrors the Superocean Heritage aesthetic. With lacquer-filled temple tips, mesh-inspired details, and red-gold accents, the four handcrafted styles come in limited runs of 500 each and feature ZEISS LightPro® lenses in a variety of cool shades. Rounding out the beach-ready collabs, Breitling also joins forces with Havaianas to debut floral-print flip-flops, available exclusively at select Breitling boutiques via the Breitling Equipment line. The Superocean Heritage collection, including the Kelly Slater edition, Cutler and Gross sunglasses, and Havaianas collaboration, is now available at select Breitling Boutiques and online. The eyewear will launch in September at Cutler and Gross flagship stores and selected global retailers. What's your Reaction? +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0 +1 0
Fashion Network
25-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Voyado's new majority owner to fund UK growth
Having established itself as a major retail technology provider in the Nordics, the company has recently expanded into the UK, Benelux, and Germany 'helping retailers and brands turn customer and product data into loyalty, optimise e-commerce performance, and personalise the shopping experience across channels'. Since 2022, Voyado said it has achieved an average annual growth rate of 32% and is now a profitable business. This strong trajectory, combined with continued international expansion and a rapidly growing customer base, has resulted in a company valuation of SEK 3.5 billion (£270 million). 'We've never tried to be everything to everyone – we build solutions for a sector we know inside out. That focus on retail is exactly what made Viking see the potential in us,' said Voyado co-founder Johan Bäckarlin. Over the past 18 months, Voyado said it has signed partnerships with several high-profile UK retailers across fashion and lifestyle, including Cutler and Gross, Pour Moi, Ellis Brigham, and Silver Cross. Bäckarlin added: 'With a local team in place and growing commercial traction, the company aims to scale further in the UK by providing retailers with AI-driven solutions for loyalty, personalisation, and product discovery, all tailored specifically for the retail sector.' Voyado CEO Erica Sandelin Ekelund added: '[Our] story in the UK is quickly gaining pace. We're seeing strong demand among retailers for technology that delivers real results, from loyalty and personalisation to smarter product discovery. More businesses are recognising the real impact of loyalty. Our job now is to help even more retailers see the same results.'
Fashion Network
25-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Voyado's new majority owner to fund UK growth
Having established itself as a major retail technology provider in the Nordics, the company has recently expanded into the UK, Benelux, and Germany 'helping retailers and brands turn customer and product data into loyalty, optimise e-commerce performance, and personalise the shopping experience across channels'. Since 2022, Voyado said it has achieved an average annual growth rate of 32% and is now a profitable business. This strong trajectory, combined with continued international expansion and a rapidly growing customer base, has resulted in a company valuation of SEK 3.5 billion (£270 million). 'We've never tried to be everything to everyone – we build solutions for a sector we know inside out. That focus on retail is exactly what made Viking see the potential in us,' said Voyado co-founder Johan Bäckarlin. Over the past 18 months, Voyado said it has signed partnerships with several high-profile UK retailers across fashion and lifestyle, including Cutler and Gross, Pour Moi, Ellis Brigham, and Silver Cross. Bäckarlin added: 'With a local team in place and growing commercial traction, the company aims to scale further in the UK by providing retailers with AI-driven solutions for loyalty, personalisation, and product discovery, all tailored specifically for the retail sector.' Voyado CEO Erica Sandelin Ekelund added: '[Our] story in the UK is quickly gaining pace. We're seeing strong demand among retailers for technology that delivers real results, from loyalty and personalisation to smarter product discovery. More businesses are recognising the real impact of loyalty. Our job now is to help even more retailers see the same results.'
Times
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The best men's designer sunglasses to shop in 2025
Summer is sunglasses time, of course. And while we are great fans of the classics — and who doesn't look good in a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers (as sported by Tom Cruise in Risky Business), American Optical Original Pilot aviators (as issued to the crew of Apollo 11 in their survival kits), Persol 714s (see Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair) or Vuarnet Legend 06s (thank you, 007, in No Time to Die) — there are new styles that are worth exploring. Some of the best models come care of collaborations, creating characterful mash-ups. The first that caught our eye, so to speak, is the Ray-Ban x Lenny Kravitz partnership, which has produced a 'reverse' version of the US brand's famous aviators. This style was designed in 1937 for American pilots and has become a classic. Last year Ray-Ban decided to play with it and introduced a concave lens in place of the usual convex one. Kravitz clearly enjoys the idea of reimagining the aviator: 'It's about breaking boundaries, embracing individuality and seeing the world from a new perspective through those innovative lenses.' The models come in black, chrome and a limited-edition gold version, and etched discreetly on the top of the left lens you'll see the musician's signature. • This article contains affiliate links that can earn us revenue But if lens bending strikes you as a little out there, why not try a pair of Sunspel x Cutler and Gross shades? A British maker of elegant luxury casualwear for men, Sunspel was founded in 1860 and to this day manufactures T-shirts in its factory in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. The brand is all about quality, simplicity and a certain type of no-nonsense Britishness. It has, for example, made a couple of collections with Paul Weller, which were a modern take on sporty mod knits. Sunspel x Cutler and Gross Dark Turtle sunglasses, £395, Enter the Sunspel x Cutler and Gross sunglasses collaboration, a marriage made in British minimalist design heaven. Cutler and Gross is about a century younger than Sunspel, founded in 1969 by Graham Cutler and Tony Gross, who met while studying to become opticians, and its sunglasses are now handmade in Italy. The brand has developed a model for Sunspel with an acetate frame in dark brown, black or pewter with matching tonal lenses, a tapered temple with diamond-shaped rivets and a heavy brow line that gives it an air of old-school cool. At the other end of the British sartorial spectrum sits Huntsman of Savile Row, established in 1849. A dive into this tailor's ledgers reveals a host of stylish customers: Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Lawrence Olivier, Gregory Peck and Dirk Bogarde — and more recently the film director Matthew Vaughn, the creator of the Kingsman franchise for which Huntsman served as inspiration and location. (Incidentally, Cutler and Gross has an eyewear collaboration with Kingsman too.) Huntsman x EB Meyrowitz Grosvenor sunglasses, £1,350, Now the Savile Row tailor comes together with EB Meyrowitz, an optician that was founded in 1875 and has its roots in making eyewear for early motorists, mountaineers and aviators. Today EB Meyrowitz is based in the Royal Arcade off Bond Street and handmakes its frames. For Huntsman it has imagined some archetypical designs in acetate: an aviator, a teardrop shape, a rectangular style and a round one. It's a good selection designed to suit different face shapes, and each model oozes quality (witness the three gold pins on the temples of the Savoy and Grosvenor models). The tinted Zeiss lenses protect against UV and there is added back-coating to counteract the sun reflecting from the reverse of the lens into the eye. By Rosie Davenport Inspired by the silhouette of the iconic cat eye sunglasses worn by Bob Dylan on tour throughout the mid-1960s, this sleek black frame from Jacques Marie Mage features polarised lenses. The Los Angeles-based brand is also behind a collection of quiet luxury shades worn by the character Kendall Roy in the TV show Succession, which are made in a limited series of about 50 per model and colour. £1,580, Jacques Marie Mage at Harrods With its leather bridge detailing and signature screws, Cartier's Santos de Cartier pilot sunglasses are a great twist on the classic aviator silhouette with touches of distinctive details taken from the brand's bestselling watch design. £1,035, Cartier at Harrods Made in Italy, Ferrari's aviator frames have an understated sporty aesthetic in homage to the brand's rich racing history and are crafted from lightweight acetate. £584, Ferrari at Harrods The peachy tinted lenses on these Brunello Cucinelli gives the pair a retro twist, as do the chunky frames and oversized silhouette. £605, Brunello Cucinelli at Mr Porter Mr Porter's collaboration with the British eyewear brand Cubitts includes this pair of everyday frames. The rounded shape, tortoiseshell and brown lenses makes them particularly perfect for the sunny summer months. £150, Mr Porter
