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Vista starts fall/winter 2025/26 sales campaign with a new agent for Bavaria
The German footwear company Vista is starting the fall/winter 2025/26 sales campaign with a new agent for Bavaria. In the future, Stephan Simon’s Agentur Simon will be looking after the shoe importer, wholesaler and manufacturer’s customers in Bavaria from its Munich office. It replaces the Agentur Lehner, which was previously ...
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ArticleEmerging designer: CB Made in Italy seeks slow and steady growth
While their store in Via Santo Spirito in Florence may just be a mere 40 square metres (430 square feet), CB Made in Italy is brimming with ideas and plans for the future. The brainchild of Cecilia Bringheli and Sibilla De Vuono, CB Made in Italy offers a limited number ...
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ArticleGerman companies face unprecedented supply chain challenges
German businesses are bracing for potential disruptions to global trade, with mounting concerns over geopolitical conflicts, bureaucratic hurdles, and the ongoing complexities of navigating relations with key trading partners like the US and China. These were the findings of a survey conducted from Sept. 18 to Oct. 25 by four ...
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VF to close a distribution center
VF Corp. will close a 46,500-square-meter distribution center in Martinsville, Virginia, in March 2025. The move will impact 242 employees, who will face layoffs by Jan. 19, 2025, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filings. The decision, part of the group‘s broader “Reinvent” turnaround strategy, aims to ...
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Cinq à Sept launches its first footwear collection
The New York-based ready-to-wear brand Cinq à Sept launched its first-ever footwear collection on Nov. 21. The collection is designed in New York and made in Brazil. It is available online at cinqasept.nyc, in-store at the Cinq à Sept New York City boutique and with premiere retailers worldwide. Cinq à ...
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ArticleRussia’s footwear imports are declining
During the first nine months of 2024, Russia imported 261.6 million pairs of shoes, 11.2 percent less than the previous year, according to the Russian Center for Prospective Technologies, a government agency monitoring the retail industry. In the third quarter of 2024, the agency stated that imports were 9.7 percent ...
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ArticleStanbee enters a distribution partnership in Indonesia
Stanbee, a US footwear components provider, has entered into a distribution partnership in Indonesia with PT Eco Mega Synergy. ”The arrangement ensures that Stanbee components will be distributed throughout Indonesia quickly and seamlessly,” the US company said. Founded in 2010, PT Eco Mega Synergy supplies pigment masterbatch to footwear brands ...
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Brand, price and sustainability are key drivers for German consumers
More than 60 percent of Germans own up to ten pairs of shoes, and nearly a fifth buy new shoes at least four times a year, placing a special importance on brand, price and sustainability, a survey from the trade magazine Schuhkurier and the Cologne-based market research and consulting institute ...
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ArticleSkechers to move to a new European distribution center in 2028
Skechers will relocate its European Distribution Center (EDC) operations to a larger and single-structure facility in Liège, Belgium, as it expands its business throughout the continent. To ensure seamless, uninterrupted operations, the Skechers EDC will start its gradual move in 2028 to a new 200,000-square-meter site, which will be located ...
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ArticleAllbirds signs distribution agreements for Europe and Latin America
Allbirds has signed agreements with distributors in Europe and Latin America as part of the expansion of its international distributor model. Effective July 1, 2025, Chris Sports will be the exclusive Allbirds distributor across Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Chris Sports, founded 30 years ago, is based in ...
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ArticleNeroGiardini sets its sights on the Far East
After the opening of its first shop in South Korea in March 2023, NeroGiardini inaugurated a second store in the country in September 2024 as part of its strategy of expanding in the Far East. The new shop was opened in the Lotte Department Store Myeongdong Main Branch, in the ...
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ArticlePajar Canada buys Cougar Shoes
The Canadian footwear group Pajar Canada bought its peer Cougar Shoes. No financial details were released, but Pajar described the acquisition as a “significant milestone.” Thanks to the takeover, Cougar shoes will be able to leverage the group’s “combined expertise to create unique products that resonate with both longstanding ...
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ArticleBirkenstock starts direct sales in South Korea
On Oct. 23, Birkenstock launched a country-specific e-commerce website for South Korea as part of its strategy to bolster its presence in Asia. The website, www.birkenstock.com/kr, lays “the foundation for further expansion in the dynamically growing country, which is home to 52 million people,” explained the footwear brand. From ...
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ArticleC-Suite interview: Xero Shoes looks to US wholesale, Europe for growth
Xero Shoes is looking to bolster its domestic wholesale business and leverage strong growth rates in Europe to underpin a new phase of expansion for the US barefoot footwear specialist founded 15 years ago. Dan Dougherty, EU managing director and the head of wholesale activities at Xero Shoes globally, tells ...
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ArticleKizik enters distribution agreements in Japan and Canada
Kizik has entered distribution agreements in Japan and Canada as the US brand specializing in slip-on shoes continues to expand abroad. In Japan, it partnered with Marubeni Consumer Brands Inc. “We are grateful to be associated with one of the most important and exciting brands in my long-term experience ...
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ArticleSteve’s seeks to raise up to €300,000 in crowd funding
Steve’s, an Italian producer of sustainable premium sneakers, is seeking to raise between €100,000 and €300,000 in a crowdfunding campaign through the Mamacrowd platform. Founded in 2022 in Turin by Giulia Gandini and Filippo Gandini, Steve’s produces sneakers made from Appleskin, a material produced from the skins and cores of ...
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ArticleSkechers faces challenging conditions in China
Skechers is facing “challenging” conditions in China and that could result in a “disappointing” performance in the country in the second half of the year. The US footwear company however declined to provide a forecast regarding its performance in China. In the first half of 2024, Skechers’ sales in China ...
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JD Sports shuts down large distribution hub in Derby
JD Sports Fashion has decided to shut down its warehouse on Derby Commercial Park, East Midlands, BBC News reported. The closure will result in the loss of nearly 200 jobs. The retailer had signed a 20-year lease on the 47,700 square meter facility just three years ago.
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ArticleMoscow continues to drive the Russian fashion market
Moscow and St. Peterburg remain the key drivers of the Russian fashion market, local officials indicated. Over the past three years, Moscow saw a 46 percent surge in the turnover of stores selling clothes and shoes, Natalia Sergunina, Moscow’s Deputy Mayor, recently revealed. Moscow’s fashion industry currently comprises 12,800 firms, ...
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Tecovas expands into wholesale
Tecovas is partnering with nine retailers to expand for the first time into wholesale. Thanks to the partnerships, the Texas-based boot brand will reach 36 stores in 10 US states. The brand expects that wholesale could represent about a quarter of its sales in the coming years. Until now, the ...
