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A contract for the sale of the Hamm Reno retail...
A contract for the sale of the Hamm Reno retail group is expected to be signed during the month of February, says Schuhkurier
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The new owners of Brantano U.K. are considering a reduction...
The new owners of Brantano U.K. are considering a reduction in the number of jobs at the chain, according to The Sunday Times. The process may entail the closure of some of its 140 stores and 60 concessions in the U.K. As we have previously reported, Macintosh Retail Group sold ...
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WWD reports that Tamara Mellon is set to reduce her...
WWD reports that Tamara Mellon is set to reduce her stake in Tamara Mellon Brands from 52 percent to just over 16 percent as part of a refinancing proposal that has received the approval by the District Court of Delaware, allowing her company to get out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...
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Zalando is taking over Nugg, a German company that supplies...
Zalando is taking over Nugg, a German company that supplies targeted digital marketing solutions, from the German Post Office, in order to address specific target groups in different ways. In the U.S., meanwhile, Amazon is reportedly planning to set up its own fleet of cargo airplanes to avoid delayed deliveries ...
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A Hong Kong-based financial service company registered in the Seychelles...
A Hong Kong-based financial service company registered in the Seychelles islands, Yucheng International, has agreed to acquire the 64.15 percent stake held by Pegasus Footgear Management in its shoe factory in Guangzhou, Pegasus International Holding, subject to various conditions. It would subsequently make a bid for the remaining shares of ...
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Evereste, the Portuguese footwear company operated by the Fernandes family,...
Evereste, the Portuguese footwear company operated by the Fernandes family, is reported to be working on a customization program
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OluKai, the California-based lifestyle footwear company, has made an unspecified...
OluKai, the California-based lifestyle footwear company, has made an unspecified investment in Kaenon, the Californian brand of sunglasses. Darren Rosenberg will continue to run Kaenon as an independent entity. Known for its proprietary SR-91 polarized lenses, Kaenon was founded in 2001 by Darren and his brother Steve, who has left ...
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R.M. Williams has announced that Hugh Jackman, the well-known Australian...
R.M. Williams has announced that Hugh Jackman, the well-known Australian actor, has become a private investor in the company, alongside majority shareholder L Capital Asia and IFM Investors. The Australian shoe firm, which was founded by Reginald Murray Williams in 1932, hopes the fame of the new shareholder will promote ...
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To prepare itself for accelerated growth in Europe, Skechers is...
To prepare itself for accelerated growth in Europe, Skechers is again raising the capacity and efficiency of its European distribution center in Belgium. A new phase of expansion will take the total warehousing surface to more than 100,000 sqm. by next April. The 13-year-old facility, which gets its products through ...
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Schlatsholt, a German shoe retail chain with 22 stores in...
Schlatsholt, a German shoe retail chain with 22 stores in the densely populated Ruhr area of Germany, has reportedly obtained a special type of bankruptcy protection from creditors, after court approval of a reorganization program
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Zalando officially opened on Dec. 15 its first logistics center...
Zalando officially opened on Dec. 15 its first logistics center outside of Germany in Stradella, northern Italy. The 20,000-square-meter structure is supposed to cover the majority of Italian orders, and to respond to the increasing demand on the emerging Italian e-commerce market. The first products are already stored in Stradella ...
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Rubin Ritter, finance director of Zalando, and the Samwer brothers,...
Rubin Ritter, finance director of Zalando, and the Samwer brothers, who help found the e-commerce giant, have cash out of some of their shares. Ritter has sold shares worth €3.26 million. Acting through their holding company, Global Founders, the brother have reduced their stake in Zalando to 9.92 percent. The ...
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Hermès has bought Tanneries du Puy, a longtime supplier of...
Hermès has bought Tanneries du Puy, a longtime supplier of the leather used in its products. Specializing in box-calf leather, Tanneries du Puy works for many important manufacturers of shoes and leathergoods around the world. To help secure its supplies and become more vertically integrated, Hermès had already spent some ...
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Osco, a discount shoe retailers based in Berlin and run...
Osco, a discount shoe retailers based in Berlin and run by Zhang Huafeng, has closed its 20 stores in Germany and its online shop following insolvency proceedings
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Authentic Brands, the company that owns Prince Sports and Tretorn,...
Authentic Brands, the company that owns Prince Sports and Tretorn, among other properties, is said to be targeting a public offering in the course of 2016
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Mannequin Shoe, a chain of six shoe stores in Austria,...
Mannequin Shoe, a chain of six shoe stores in Austria, has filed for insolvency, and the receiver in the case, Günter Hödl, is set to decided by year-end whether it should continue to operate
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The retail members of the ANWR Group have agreed to...
The retail members of the ANWR Group have agreed to start the process for the establishment of a new company that will own and operate the Mücke chain of 13 shoe and sporting goods stores by next summer. ANWR's members will be able to acquire shares in the German retail ...
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Chanel has reportedly acquired a majority stake in Calzaturificio Gensi,...
Chanel has reportedly acquired a majority stake in Calzaturificio Gensi, a shoemaker in the Abruzzi region of Italy that has been manufacturing its sneakers. The company employs 160 people and makes 1,500 shoes per day for men, women and children. According to the reports, it will continue to work for ...
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Cinven is said to be in pole position to acquire...
Cinven is said to be in pole position to acquire Kurt Geiger
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Tamara Mellon has reportedly become insolvent. According to the U.S....
Tamara Mellon has reportedly become insolvent. According to the U.S. media, the British shoe designer has filed a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in a U.S. court for her eponymous brand, which she had launched in November 2013, two year after leaving Jimmy Choo. She had co-founded the brand and ...
