ITALY: Fashion Sales Seen Sluggish Until Year End
Italian fashion and clothing sales will remain sluggish until the end of the year and then rise only slightly, an industry survey of 230 companies revealed on Monday. According to the poll by industry organisation Sistema Moda Italiana, the firms said orders slipped 0.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2003 and added that the pricing power which helped them last year had vanished.