All Corporate articles – Page 17
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Shloop to open a production site in Mississippi
Shloop, a startup footwear manufacturer, is opening a manufacturing facility in Meridian, in the U.S. state of Mississipi. The $9 million investment is due to create 56 jobs. The footwear factory is located in a 32,000 square foot building dating back to the 1930s and started as a bakery. The ...
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Tod’s strengthens production footprint with new Tuscan factory
Tod’s is moving forward with the construction of a new factory in the municipality of Pontassieve, which is located in an important district for the production of leather goods near Florence in Italy’s Tuscany region. The Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore estimates Tod’s will invest about €15 million ...
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ArticleShoe retailer Schuh-Oase files for bankruptcy
The German footwear retailer Schuh-Oase has filed for bankruptcy, the latest of many shoe companies caught in a wave of insolvencies that has been gathering pace in Europe’s biggest economy. The coronavirus pandemic led to a significant drop in sales over the past two years and took its toll ...
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ArticleC-Suite interview: NeroGiardini aims to double in three years its sales from the Covid-19 trough
After three difficult years, that led to a significant reduction in sales, NeroGiardini is focusing on new markets to sell its wholly Italian made footwear. This year the Italian company will be entering the South Korean market.
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Go Sport placed into receivership
A Grenoble-based commercial court has placed under controlled administration, or receivership, the French retailer of sporting goods Groupe Go Sport after having established that it was insolvent. The court said that it “has ascertained the insolvency of the company Groupe Go Sport and launched proceedings for receivership.” It noted that ...
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Copenhagen, Liebeskind founders to launch a footwear brand
The founders of Liebeskind Berlin and Copenhagen Studios, the brothers Johannes and Julian Rellecke, are about to launch a new footwear label, according to the German trade magazine TextilWirtschaft. After Copenhagen Studios - which became in 2021 part of the s.Oliver Group and is currently expanding into the French ...
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Amazon to close 3 U.K. warehouses
Amazon plans to shut down three warehouses in the U.K. as part of a restructuring of its logistics business in the country. The closure of the warehouses located in Hemel Hampstead, Doncaster and Gourock will impact 1,200 jobs, but people will be given the possibility to transfer to other units. ...
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Cotélac obtains a safeguard procedure
Cotélac, a French ready-to-wear retailer, obtained a safeguard procedure on Jan. 4 from a Bourg-en-Bresse-based commercial court. The troubled company said that the procedure will provide it with protection from creditors in order to restructure its business after suffering a significant decline in trade due to various factors including ...
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Amazon to lay off 18,000 people
Amazon will lay off over 18,000 employees, with the majority focused on Amazon Stores and the People, Experience, and Technology (PXT) organizations, announced Andy Jassy, the company’s CEO. The U.S. online retailer plans to start talking to employees or representative bodies from Jan. 18. “Amazon has weathered uncertain and difficult ...
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Florence issues €500 bonus to staff
Gruppo Florence, an Italian conglomerate of luxury goods firms, will grant all its staff a €500 bonus that will be paid in shopping vouchers in December. The bonus will be distributed to the group’s 2,200 staff and aims to help employees face the cost of higher energy prices. The group ...
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ArticleLanvin Group’s roller coaster market debut
Shares in Lanvin Group, the Chinese luxury goods group that owns the Italian shoemaker Sergio Rossi, plummeted about 25 percent on their market debut on the New York Stock Exchange, but the stock recovered most of its lost ground the following day. Lanvin’s flotation stems from the merger with Primavera ...
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Asos reportedly in talks with lenders about hiring restructuring expert
Asos and its lenders are reportedly discussing whether to hire a restructuring expert following the departure of Katy Mecklenburgh, the interim chief financial officer of the British online fashion retailer. A number of turnaround professionals held informal talks about a role, which would sit below executive level, but no decision ...
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News briefsPlan to take Tod’s private is dropped
DeVa Finance, the investment vehicle of Diego Della Valle, the chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Tod’s, announced it was abandoning plans to merge with Tod’s in order to delist the Italian luxury goods group from the Milan stock exchange. Uncertainty about the fate of Tod’s’ shares had continued since ...
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The parcel delivery firm Maergo raises $20m in seed round
Maergo, a U.S. parcel delivery platform previously known as X Delivery, has closed a $20 million seed round. Lead investors included Deep Lake Capital, funds managed by investor and entrepreneur Neel Shah, and ACR Strategic Credi, with participation from RyderVentures, the venture capital arm of Ryder System. With the closing ...
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Wolverine Worldwide announces divestitures, staff cuts
Driven by a focus on increasing long-term shareholder value, Wolverine Worldwide is divesting or licensing its Keds brand and Wolverine leather business segments and is initiating an unspecified headcount reduction. The staff cuts are projected to result in approximately $30 million in savings for the company in 2023, and the ...
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ArticleCoats de-risks exposure to its pension scheme
Coats, the British producer of industrial threads and footwear components, has further de-risked its pension scheme. The move is expected to boost resources to finance growth or to remunerate shareholders. The company said that the trustee of its U.K. pension scheme has purchased an about £350 million (€408m) bulk annuity ...
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Next buys fashion retailer Joules, saving 1,450 jobs
The British apparel and footwear chain Joules has been bought out of administration by its founder Tom Joule and Next in a deal that will save 1,450 jobs. Next will buy around 100 Joules shops for £34 million (€39.5m) and take a 74 percent stake in the company after a ...
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ArticleOR Group nears bankruptcy
The Russian banks Sberbank and VTB Bank have joined bankruptcy proceedings against OR Group, the Russian arbitration courts database showed. Alongside Promsvyazbank, Sberbank and VTB Bank are the largest creditors of OR Group, formerly known as Obuv Rossii, which has been experiencing financial difficulties since the beginning of 2022. On ...
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H&M cuts 1,500 jobs
H&M is reducing its workforce by about 1,500 positions as part of a cost savings and efficiency program. Overall, the Swedish retailer estimates the program will provide annual savings of about SEK 2 billion (€182.2m), which it expects to “become visible” in the second half of 2023. The program is ...
