The American lingerie brand, long criticised for its beauty standards, is pivoting back to spectacle and star-powered marketing after years of repositioning.
Victoria's Secret is returning to its sensual aesthetic and fashion show format after a years-long hiatus.
The brand is leveraging global celebrities and social media to rebuild pop-culture relevance.
Rivals such as Savage X Fenty and Skims have captured demographic segments the brand previously abandoned.
The Competition Council issued the largest fine in its history, finding that banks coordinated the exchange of confidential data during ROBOR daily fixings.
Total fine: 3.73 billion lei (€710 million) — a record in Romanian competition law history.
Ten banks coordinated the exchange of confidential data during ROBOR daily fixings.
ROBOR underpinned interest rates on millions of Romanian household loans.
The AUR MEP announces class-action suits after the Competition Council's ruling, but claims effects of 20–25% — far beyond what the official investigation found.
The Competition Council fined banks for illegally coordinating ROBOR rate submissions.
Piperea claims rates were inflated by 20–25%, but the regulator cites only fractions of a percent.
Courts will rule on evidence from the case file, not on lawyers' public estimates.
A new EU requirement to register goods in transit and post a financial guarantee will slow fuel shipments through Romania, hitting the Sulina port route hardest.
New EU rules require a financial guarantee for goods while they transit union territory.
Sulina port is the most exposed node for non-EU petroleum product imports.
Ukraine and Moldova are the main destinations affected by the added logistical burden.