Uber delivers too!
Uber has partnered with a French culinary start-up in order to bring resturant-quality meals to foodies’ front doors. MoiChef, the start-up in question, is based in Toulouse and its business is simple: get a good, local chef from a good local restaurant to prepare the various elements of a wonderful meal, then deliver them to a customer to complete the final assembly and eat at home. For this weekend only, when a MoiChef customer places an order, it will arrive courtesy of Uber. In February, Uber launched restaurant delivery service UberEATs in Barcelona and has a similar service in Los Angeles called UberFRESH. rp AFP-relaxnews
China’s luxe market is shrinking
It’s shinking, diversifying and buying elsewhere, says Bain & Company. China’s luxury market shrank last year, a global consultancy said, attributing the decline to a national anti-corruption campaign, slowing economic growth and changing consumer tastes. Sales of luxury goods in mainland China fell`1% to 115 billion yuan ($18.5 billion) in 2014 compared to a year earlier, Bain & Company said. The consulting firm, which has been surveying the market since 2000, said it was the first time the industry had contracted. China has become an ever more important destination for luxury goods manufacturers as the ranks of its wealthy have been swelled by a decades-long boom. Swiss giant Richemont, the […]