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Russian shoe market nearly 3 times larger than previously estimated
The recent introduction of mandatory tagging of footwear in Russia has shown that up to 1.3 billion pairs of shoes are sold in the country on average per year. This is nearly three times more than previous official estimates, said Denis Manturov, the Russian industry and trade minister The tagging ...
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Gabor has 500,000 pairs in stock for autumn/winter season
Gabor has around 500,000 pairs of shoes in stock for the current autumn/winter season to enable retailers to reorder at short notice. Orders can be made continuously through the B2B online shop. Telephone orders are also possible.
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Santoni sees 2020 sales down by 20-30%
Santoni expects 2020 sales to drop by 20-30 percent from the €83 million posted in 2019 due the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Italian brand of high-end shoes anticipates to resume growing in 2021 but the target of reaching an annual turnover of €100 million within a couple of ...
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Tretorn reinforces its management team in its move to accelerate DTC shift
Tretorn, the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, continues to reinforce its management team as it seeks to overhaul its business model and develop direct-to-consumer channels. In the summer of 2019, the company, which was established in 1891, appointed Magnus Månsson as its new chief executive. Before joining Tretorn, Månsson served ...
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ArticleLGBTQ collections become mainstream for the fashion, sportswear industry
The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer) fashion market has been growing over the last decade. In recent years, an unprecedented number of mainstream brands have begun to release LGBTQ collections.
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News briefsAllbirds enters South Korea
Allbirds, the Californian brand of sustainable footwear, has entered the South Korea market. The brand was created in 2016 by Joey Zwillinger and Tim Brown with one model, the Wool Runner, which uses superfine merino wool from New Zealand. Allbirds said that it had planned to enter the Korean market ...
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ArticleMK Gruppe and Merkur Shoe Group join forces
The German purchasing groups MK Gruppe and Merkur Shoe Group have struck a deal to work together in a bid to tackle and respond to the changes in the footwear market through a shared strategy. The collaboration is set to start with the orders for the autumn/winter 2021 season ...
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ArticleObuv Rossii parent launches capital hike to finance its development
OR PJSC, the parent company of the Russian footwear group Obuv Rossii, is planning to place additional shares worth 2.8 billion rubles (€31.7m-$37.4m) to finance the group’s development. The company is offering 28,264,000 new ordinary shares, which corresponds to 24 percent of the previously placed ordinary shares. In 2017, OR ...
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Wolverine adopts First Insight's consumer analytics
Wolverine Worldwide has announced a strategic partnership with First Insight under which it will deploy its Voice of the Customer predictive analytics solution across its portfolio of 12 brands, including Merrell, Sperry, Saucony, Hush Puppies and Keds. The deal follows a successful test conducted by Hush Puppies in different regions ...
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Geox pays July wages of bankrupt logistics provider
Geox, through its unit Xlog, paid the wages for the month of July of about 380 employees of the logistics company Venere, a unit of the Milanese group CGS currently being liquidated after being declared bankrupt. The payment was reached after Xlog reached an agreement with the Treviso chapter of ...
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News briefsCamtrade rebranded The Enjoiya Group
The U.S. women’s wholesale footwear firm Camtrade has changed names to The Enjoiya Group. The company manufactures and distributes three shoe brands, Enjoiya, Secret Celebrity and Soft Comfort. They have an emphasis on comfort and fit, with price-value also a key component in the market positioning. Enjoiya is the company’s ...
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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 groups have agreed on a joint ...
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News briefsKavat closing down some showrooms in digitalization move
Kavat, the Swedish family-owned company based in the shoe-making town of Kumla, is closing down its traditional showrooms in Düsseldorf, Oslo and Gothenburg as it intends to rely on a new B2B platform, scheduled to come on stream in August, and using flagship stores as showrooms and meeting places with ...
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ArticleFootwear production is on the rise, while retailers review their strategy
Footwear manufacturers have returned to production levels ranging from an estimated 50-80 percent in India, China and Portugal after the havoc caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. But the outlook remains uncertain and the crisis has led some players to rethink distribution and retailing.
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Oliver Sweeney closes its stores
The British footwear company Oliver Sweeney has permanently closed its five stores as its retail business, Oliver Sweeney Trading, went into administration, a local procedure for creditor protection. Three stores were located in London, one in Leeds and one in Manchester. The company’s online and wholesale businesses are not involed ...
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Marc Fisher takes over Calvin Klein footwear license in North America
Marc Fisher Footwear has entered a multi-year license agreement with Calvin Klein for the design, production and distribution of both Calvin Klein and Calvin Klein Jeans women’s and men’s footwear collections in the U.S. and Canada. The move comes as the footwear license held by Jimlar, a unit of Global ...
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Floris van Bommel enhances the delivery service to retailers
The Dutch shoemaker Floris van Bommel has reorganized the delivery service to wholesale clients to increase flexibility. For the spring/summer 2021 season, five delivery time windows will be offered to retailers, up from three previously. Delivery slots will now be available in November, December, January, February and March. ...
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Only a quarter of U.K. companies are ready for Brexit
Only 24 percent of U.K. business leaders believe that their businesses are fully ready for the end of the Brexit transition period, which concludes on Dec. 31, according to a survey by the Institute of Directors (IoD). According to the survey, 19 percent of respondents said that they are ...
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Lloyd stops production in Germany
Lloyd Shoes, the big German shoe manufacturer specializing in men’s footwear, expects a decline in sales of around 30 percent in the current financial year due to the coronavirus crisis. In response to a reduced demand for business shoes, the manufacturer will stop manufacturing at the Sulingen site in Germany, ...
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Boohoo to review UK supply chain as retailers drop brand over pay, conditions scandal
Boohoo, the UK e-tailer and fast fashion brand, has commissioned an independent review of its domestic supply chain and promised to spend £10 million dealing with malpractice after major retailers, including Amazon, Next and Asos stopped stocking its clothes. The review comes as Boohoo deals with allegations of using suppliers ...
