{"id":5579,"date":"2018-12-18T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/victoria-beckham-fashion-firms-losses-deepen\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:26:48","slug":"victoria-beckham-fashion-firms-losses-deepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/victoria-beckham-fashion-firms-losses-deepen\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beckham fashion firm&#8217;s losses deepen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Victoria Beckham at this month's British fashion awards\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/32A5\/production\/_104856921_mediaitem104856918.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Victoria Beckham at this month&#8217;s British fashion awards where she was nominated for Designer of the Year<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Victoria Beckham&#8217;s fashion business has reported another annual loss.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sales growth of 17% to \u00a342.5m, Victoria Beckham Ltd posted an operating loss of \u00a310.2m in 2017, up from \u00a38.2m a year earlier.  <\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42141287\" class=\"story-body__link\">NEO Investment Partners put \u00a330m into the business<\/a> to help the brand expand its operations.<\/p>\n<p>The fashion label says that part of its long-term strategy with the new shareholder will involve cost cutting in order to return to profitability. <\/p>\n<p>Losses at the company have risen every year since 2013. <\/p>\n<p>The fashion business produces high-end designs, making dresses that sell for more than \u00a32,000 and coats getting on for \u00a33,000, and also has partnerships with Estee Lauder, Chole and Calvin Klein.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The company now has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, it also produces a far more affordable line with budget US retailer Target, where Victoria Beckham&#8217;s name appears on dresses retailing at under \u00a330.<\/p>\n<p>The brand also has a long-term partnership with sports brand Reebok.<\/p>\n<p>The label was founded in 2008. In addition to NEO, its other business owner is Beckham Brand Holdings, which is owned equally by Victoria Beckham, David Beckham and XIX Entertainment.  <\/p>\n<p>It now has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong, and is in more than 400 stockists in over 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Beckham herself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-39643202\" class=\"story-body__link\">was awarded an OBE for services to fashion<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46603092\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright PA Image caption Victoria Beckham at this month&#8217;s British fashion awards where she was nominated for Designer of the Year Victoria Beckham&#8217;s fashion business has reported another annual loss. Despite sales growth of 17% to \u00a342.5m, Victoria Beckham Ltd posted an operating loss of \u00a310.2m in 2017, up from \u00a38.2m a year earlier. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}