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France's competition and fraud authority, the DGCCRF, fined Shein €40 million on 3 July 2025 after a year-long investigation found most of its promoted discounts were not genuine price reductions. It also found Shein could not justify environmental claims made on its site.

Alo's first flagship in Asia: a standalone building near Dosan Park in Gangnam with three retail floors, wooden louvres and a rooftop garden.

China set final anti-dumping duties of 27.7% to 34.9% on EU brandy for five years from 5 July 2025, but exempted cognac houses such as Hennessy, Martell and Rémy Martin that signed minimum-price undertakings.

Michael Rider presented his debut Celine collection in the courtyard of the house's Paris headquarters on rue Vivienne, a 72-look Spring/Summer 2026 womenswear collection blending Phoebe Philo-era tailoring with Hedi Slimane-era slim leather pieces and equestrian-print nods to founder Celine Vipiana.

Six months after the fires, Governor Newsom declared the public cleanup of more than 10,000 burned parcels in the Palisades and Eaton zones substantially complete, the fastest major disaster cleanup in US history.

The General Services Administration's OneGov agreement gave every federal agency a 75% discount on Oracle's licensed technology, cheaper OCI and no egress fees, priced on the whole government's volume.

On 8 July 2025 the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for the crime against humanity of persecuting women and girls on gender grounds.

Hershey hired Kirk Tanner, Wendy's CEO and a PepsiCo veteran of more than 30 years, who ran its $28 billion North American beverage business, as its next CEO from August 18, 2025. Wendy's named its CFO interim CEO the same morning.

Vuori created a global president role for former Fabletics brand president Ashley Kechter, over retail, e-commerce, supply chain and wholesale, and hired RH's Edward Lee as chief legal officer.

Glenn Martens presented his debut Maison Margiela Artisanal couture show at Centquatre-Paris, a former municipal building in the 19th arrondissement, sourcing vintage garments from Paris bargain bins and dressing models in masks of feathers, lace and mirror shards to preserve their anonymity.

Elliott Hill told staff that Aaron Cain, a 21-year Nike veteran who ran Nike Men's globally, would succeed Jared Carver as chief executive of Converse, whose sales fell 19% to $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025.

Pierpaolo Piccioli, Valentino's creative director for a quarter-century, becomes Balenciaga's creative director on 10 July 2025, succeeding Demna, who moves to Gucci; Kering announced the move on 19 May.

Superman is a 2025 American superhero film written and directed by James Gunn. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, it is the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series.

Las Vegas Sands began construction on an $8BN fourth tower and 15,000-seat arena at Marina Bay Sands, designed by original architect Moshe Safdie.

Tesla entered India with a 4,000 sq ft Experience Centre in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex, opened by Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, selling Shanghai-built Model Ys from Rs 59.89 lakh (about $68,000).

Diriyah Company awarded a branch of China Harbour Engineering the contract to build the Arena Superblock: the multi-purpose indoor Diriyah Arena seating 20,000 spectators, three mixed-use office buildings and a parking facility with more than 4,000 spaces. The arena sits on the edge of historic At-Turaif and anchors the Grand Avenue district alongside Diriyah's Grand Mosque.

Debra Crew left Diageo as chief executive and board director with immediate effect by mutual agreement, two years into a tenure marked by falling sales and US tariffs, and CFO Nik Jhangiani became interim CEO.

Lence Pte agrees to buy between 11% and 20% of AWL Agri Business from Adani Commodities at Rs 275 a share, replacing the December option, while Adani places its other 10.42% with investors.

Eddie Vargas opens his first restaurant in Southwest Detroit, building a menu around his father's birria and Mexican-American home cooking.

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Donna Geck granted environmental groups a partial preliminary injunction: Sable may not restart the onshore Las Flores pipelines until 10 court days after it certifies that every required approval is in hand. The suits say the State Fire Marshal waived corrosion rules without environmental review.

A second season of I Parry Everything, the fantasy comedy about a would-be adventurer who can deflect anything, was announced at Earth Star Novels' 10th-anniversary event.

Lululemon's first Italian store opened in Milan's main shopping street: about 5,700 sq ft on two floors behind a 3-D printed facade modelled on its Define Jacket.

The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

Verizon beat its own plan in the second quarter of 2025, with adjusted EPS of $1.22 and wireless service revenue of $20.9 billion, and raised its full-year guidance for adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EPS and free cash flow.

Hershey told retailers it would raise prices on many chocolate products by a low double-digit percentage, blaming the unprecedented cost of cocoa rather than tariffs. Halloween packs were spared, and it said 75% of its candy would still cost under $4.

OpenAI said Oracle will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the US, taking Stargate past 5 GW under development and over 2 million chips alongside the Abilene site.

Cloud-provider lobby CISPE asked the EU General Court (Case T-503/25) to annul the Commission's 12 July 2023 clearance of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (Case M.10806). It argues the Commission failed to assess the deal's effects on server virtualisation software, bundling and innovation.

American Eagle launched its Fall '25 campaign fronted by actress Sydney Sweeney, "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans," spanning over 200 jeans styles, a limited-edition denim jacket and a charity collaboration, and igniting a national debate over its wordplay and imagery within days.

Wit Studio's My Melody & Kuromi begins streaming on Netflix, a Sanrio series following the two rival mascots as they open competing sweet shops in the town of Mariland.

Nestlé's first-half organic growth was 2.9%, almost all of it from pricing with real internal growth of just 0.2%, while reported sales fell 1.8% to CHF 44.2 billion on the strong franc. CEO Laurent Freixe kept 2025 guidance, including an underlying trading margin at or above 16.0%.

Four-time Olympic champion Léon Marchand, 23, joined Nike's global athlete roster, alongside fellow French Nike athletes Kylian Mbappé and Victor Wembanyama.

England drew 1-1 with world champions Spain in Basel and won the shoot-out 3-1, with Hannah Hampton saving two penalties and Chloe Kelly scoring the winner, to keep their European title.

Ruling on Ferrero's suit against a Maharashtra maker of fake 'Nutella Ferrero' spread, Justice Saurabh Banerjee declared NUTELLA a well-known mark, barred the counterfeiter for good and awarded Rs 30 lakh in damages.

Samsung disclosed a $16.5 billion chipmaking contract running to the end of 2033, and Elon Musk confirmed Samsung's new fab in Taylor, Texas, will be dedicated to Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip.

Alo's third shoe, a slim suede sneaker named for Sunset Boulevard with a recovery-foam insole, went on sale for $225 in black and sand.

Hershey's second-quarter net sales jumped 26% to $2.61 billion on Easter timing and early Halloween shipments, but it cut its 2025 earnings outlook to a 36-38% adjusted EPS decline after putting full-year tariff costs at $170-180 million.

Qualcomm's fiscal third quarter brought $10.37 billion of revenue, up 10%, and record automotive chip sales of $984 million, though the shares slid after hours.

Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

Chef Nick Goellner opens a Japanese izakaya in Kansas City built around a 20-seat bar that wraps the kitchen, with a deep sake list.