All Distribution articles – Page 5
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ArticleAsos to mothball US distribution center at cost of £190m
Asos is mothballing its Atlanta distribution center at a cost of £190 million (€226m). The British online fashion retailer said that the bulk of US orders will now be managed by its UK fulfillment center in Barnsley from the second half of the 2025 fiscal year, supported by a “smaller, ...
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Chapters Brand Group becomes CAT Footwear’s distributor in the UK
Chapters Brand Group will be the exclusive distributor of CAT Footwear in the UK. Wolverine Worldwide is the global footwear licensee for the Caterpillar brand. CAT is currently available at Tower London, Urban Outfitters and over 40 independent stores in the country. In 2023, the British footwear distribution firm 33 ...
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Apple of Eden hires a new DACH sales team
Apple of Eden is reorganizing its distribution for the DACH region, which comprises Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After many years of collaboration with the agencies Wardrobe in Berlin and Jürgen Klein in Sindelfingen, the brand has entrusted its distribution to Michael Gerlach’s agency Brand Masters in Erkrath, starting from the ...
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ArticleGeox plans to raise €60m to finance its business plan
Geox announced a refinancing program that includes €60 million in fresh capital to finance its business plan spanning from 2025 to 2029. The Italian footwear company reached an agreement with a pool of banks – including Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Banco BPM, BPER Banca, ...
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ArticleHow Murcia’s shoemakers are exiting the 2024 jubilee year and preparing for 2025
After celebrating in 2024 the jubilee of Caravaca de la Cruz, the fifth holiest city of Catholic Christianity with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Camaleño, Calzia, a consortium of shoemakers located in Spain’s southeastern region of Murcia, is focusing on its next challenges. These include managing a slowdown in ...
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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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Salamander reorganizes its sales team
The Swiss shoe manufacturer AstorMueller AG has reorganized the sales department of the Salamander brand, which it acquired last year. Wholesale and e-commerce expert Pia Fuhrländer will be responsible for European sales. Fuhrländer has more than 20 years of experience in the fashion, footwear and lifestyle industry. From 2013 to ...
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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 ...
