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ANWR launches new sports and outdoor trade fair format
The German footwear buying group ANWR has launched a new trade fair format focusing on the sports and outdoor footwear segment. The new ANWR Order Lifestyle-Sport & Outdoor fair will be held on Dec. 12 and 13, 2023 in ANWR’s Mainhausen Campus, near Darmstadt. So far, around 50 ...
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Rexor sales swing back to near pre-pandemic levels
Rexor, the 70-year old German buying group controlled by ANWR, reported a 22 percent increase in central settlement sales to €216.9 million in 2022, up from €177.1 in 2021 and nearly returning to pre-pandemic levels. In Germany, the group’s sales last year increased by more than 10 percent from 2019, ...
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Rexor posts positive results in 2021
Rexor, the German buying group controlled by ANWR, posted positive results in 2021. Despite months-long lockdowns and delivery bottlenecks rippling through the supply chain, the Düsseldorf-based company reported a sales increase of 0.4 percent to €177.1 million. In Belgium, where lockdowns had a smaller impact on retail, the company outperformed ...
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ArticleANWR makes its debut on Amazon.fr in online retail expansion
Less than three months after its debut on Dutch platform Amazon.nl, ANWR lands on Amazon.fr, the French website of the American online retail giant, in a move to further expand its affiliated retailers’ Europe-wide online reach. As there are still no uniform regulations across Europe regarding easing restrictions ...
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ArticleBirkenstock ends cooperation with purchasing groups in Germany
Birkenstock is pulling out of the German shoe retailing cooperatives ANWR , GMS and Sabu on the grounds that they are allegedly not sufficiently committed to fighting product piracy. The withdrawal takes effect from December 31. Birkenstock has been a member of the trade associations for ...
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ArticleANWR footwear revenues drop 19% in first seven months of the year
In the first seven months of this year, the total business volume of the ANWR Group went up by 53 percent to €10.2 billion, driven by a 76 percent increase to €8.6 billion in financial services, but the buying groups of ANWR suffered a 10.7 percent decrease in their ...
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ArticleANWR expands sales channels by partnering with Gaxsys
ANWR , the German purchasing association, has created an interface to Gaxsys ’ order fulfilment system, providing its affililiates with another important sales channel. ANWR’s members can sell via the association’s own platforms shoes.de , Sport2000 and Bagmondo . But, ANWR’s software solution Qualibet also enables them ...
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German shoe industry joins forces to launch data sharing platform
Germany’s shoe industry has joined a wide-ranging alliance to set up a data exchange and clearing platform for the sector. The footwear buying groups ANWR and Sabu , the shoe and leather goods industry association HDS/L and the merchandise management providers ETOS and Brandt Retail ...
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ANWR Group grants KfW loans
The ANWR Group ’s credit institutions, the DZB Bank and the Aktivbank , have received accreditation for the granting loans in behalf of KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau or Credit Institute for Reconstruction) a bank of the German government that provides low-interest loans to support German companies, generally ...
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ANWR and Sabu to introduce a new digital ordering platform
ANWR and Sabu , two of the major German shoe retailing cooperatives, want to introduce a new digital ordering platform for the shoe industry together with a partner, Mobimedia . The German software company’s Quintet24 platform enables companies to trade online and carry out all pre-orders and re-orders ...
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ANWR, Sabu and HDS/L to set up new seasonal schedule
ANWR and Sabu , two of the major German shoe retailing cooperatives, have decided to set up a new seasonal schedule for the presentation of new products in concert with HDS/L , the German shoe and leathergoods industry association. Many partners from the shoe, leathergoods and textile industries have ...
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ANWR Germany reports lower centralized settlements
At its Campus Second trade show held on March 3-5 in Mainhausen, near Frankfurt, ANWR looked at its 2019 business year. ANWR’s two main German retail cooperatives, ANWR Schuh and Garant , recorded a decrease in centralized settlements from €885 million in 2018 to €865 million in 2019. At ...
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ANWR appoints board spokesman
The ANWR Group , the big international cooperative of independent retailers based in Mainhausen near Frankfurt, appointed Frank Schuffelen as the new spokesman for its board last week. The 51-year-old has been a member of the executive board since 2011 and is currently responsible for corporate development and corporate communications, ...
