Today in luxury marketing:
Ralph Lauren sales miss estimates, but it sees a pick-up
Ralph Lauren Corp. reported sales that fell below its own projections, hurt by fewer deliveries to European department stores, but gave a fiscal year forecast that suggests it expects its overall business to pick up, Reuters reports.
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