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Zalando has opened a new logistical center in Poland. It...
Zalando has opened a new logistical center in Poland. It will provide goods for more than 15 million customers worldwide from its “lounge web store,” the sales channel for German-based e-tailer's closeout sales. Fiege e-Com will manage the logistical center with 500 employees. It is located in Olztynek and covers ...
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Cesare Paciotti has decided to terminate the employment contracts for...
Cesare Paciotti has decided to terminate the employment contracts for 24 out of the 64 members of its staff. They were mostly engaged in the production unit of the company, and they receive a government subsidy under Italian law. The number of layoffs may be reduced to 20 depending on ...
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Chaussures Noël, a French manufacturer of children's shoes, has obtained...
Chaussures Noël, a French manufacturer of children's shoes, has obtained bankruptcy protection from creditors, with the permission to continue to operate normally until Dec. 15. The family-owned company, which already went through a reorganization in 2016, hopes to attract a new investor. After divesting other assets, the company has been ...
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Moreschi has signed a so-called “solidarity contract” with the labor...
Moreschi has signed a so-called “solidarity contract” with the labor union that represents its employees. For one year, the employees will reduce the amount of working hours at rates of 15 to 34 percent in all departments, and their pay will be cut by 22 percent on average. The Italian ...
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Dr. Martens is going to go public on the London...
Dr. Martens is going to go public on the London Stock Exchange at the end of this year or early in 2020, according to a report in Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian business daily. Permira, the investment fund that bought the brand for £300 million (€347.0m-$385.8m) in 2013, is ...
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The Vivarte group says it has entered exclusive negotiations to...
The Vivarte group says it has entered exclusive negotiations to sell San Marina, one of the last footwear retail chains in its possession, to Thierry Le Guénic and Stéphane Collaert, the French entrepreneurs who have already bought another shoe retail chain, Cosmoparis, and the Chevignon brand of sportswear. San Marina ...
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The Sachdeva family, which owns one of the largest shoe-production...
The Sachdeva family, which owns one of the largest shoe-production companies in India, is launching Vazco Salbatore, a new brand for the international market. The uppers are made in India and the shoes are assembled in Portugal. The Sachdevas oversee the collection's design and product development, providing technical assistance to ...
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Goldman Sachs has kicked off the sale of R.M. Williams,...
Goldman Sachs has kicked off the sale of R.M. Williams, sending information on the company's growth plans to interested parties. The new figures and the asking price published in the press are confusing and could not be verified by press time. We have already reported on its latest financial results ...
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Li & Fung has sold a 21.7 percent stake in...
Li & Fung has sold a 21.7 percent stake in its rather sophisticated LF Logistics business to a Singapore-based investment company, Tomaskek, for $300 million to help expand its operations in Asia and improve its own capital structure. The group saw its revenues decline by 8.4 percent on an organic ...
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According to the online magazine TechCrunch, Atoms, a DTC (direct-to-consumer)...
According to the online magazine TechCrunch, Atoms, a DTC (direct-to-consumer) brand of shoes, has raised $8.1 million in Series A funding. The brand offers shoes in quarter sizes rather than full or half sizes and allows customers to purchase different sizes for each foot to ensure optimal fit. The funding ...
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Patrick Puy, the president Vivarte, has indicated once again the...
Patrick Puy, the president Vivarte, has indicated once again the likelihood that its creditors will take over the embattled French retail group, whose only remaining assets are La Halle, Caroll and Minelli. The reason is that it will not be able to pay back loans of €300 million by the ...
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The Alibaba Group, the owner of Tmall, is further extending...
The Alibaba Group, the owner of Tmall, is further extending its reach with the acquisition of Kaola from NetEase for the equivalent of $2 billion. Kaola is an internet platform specialized in selling foreign luxury goods and other premium products – such as watches, electronics, beauty products and wines – ...
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Alpargatas, the Brazilian owner of such brands as Havaianas, Osklen...
Alpargatas, the Brazilian owner of such brands as Havaianas, Osklen and Dupé, is selling its Argentinian subsidiaries for the equivalent of about €3.3 million. The deal follows an agreement that the Brazilian footwear manufacturer reached in September 2018 to sell 22.5 percent of the businesses behind its Topper brand, both ...
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Carlyle is believed to have hired Bank of America Merrill...
Carlyle is believed to have hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch to evaluate whether to sell Golden Goose, the Italian producer of upscale sneakers, or to list it on the stock exchange, according to the daily Il Sole 24 Ore. The company is expected to be worth about €1 billion ...
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Cole Haan, the American footwear brand sold by the Nike...
Cole Haan, the American footwear brand sold by the Nike group to Apax Partners in 2013, is readying a public offering on the stock exchange, according to Bloomberg. The news agency reported that the company's revenues rose by 14 percent to €687 million in the financial year ended in June ...
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Anbessa, an Ethiopian footwear manufacturer, has purchased at auction the...
Anbessa, an Ethiopian footwear manufacturer, has purchased at auction the defunct Habesha tannery in the Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar, some 500 kilometers north of Addis Ababa. The tannery produced crust for export from 2011 to 2019, when it ceased operation and was seized by banks. Anbessa says that it ...
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Toru, an autonomous robot that Zalando is using to pick...
Toru, an autonomous robot that Zalando is using to pick shoe boxes from the shelves of its warehouses, has completed its test phase at the German e-tailer's logistical hub in Erfurt, Germany. Next up are a pilot phase at the company's warehouse in Lahr and, if that is successful, deployment ...
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Reschia Form, a Swedish brand of luxury women's shoes based...
Reschia Form, a Swedish brand of luxury women's shoes based in Stockholm, has gone into voluntary bankruptcy after a planned restructuring program failed, according to the Swedish trade magazine Habit. Andrea Reschia, who founded the brand in 2012, is hoping to find an investor.
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On Sept. 1, FLO Magazacilik of Turkey will be acquiring...
On Sept. 1, FLO Magazacilik of Turkey will be acquiring the licensing rights to Nine West and begin producing the fashion brand's shoes for the local market. It will entrust the shoes' design to a team in the U.S. and their manufacture to more than 300 Turkish companies. According to ...
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Manolo Blahnik has acquired Calzaturificio Re Marcello, an Italian shoe...
Manolo Blahnik has acquired Calzaturificio Re Marcello, an Italian shoe manufacturer with 77 workers that has been making shoes for the Spanish U.K.-based designer since 1990. Bruno Re of the Re family, which founded the company in Vigevano in 1938, will join the Blahnik group. Re Marcello has been making ...
