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GMS’ Boys & Girls continues to expand
Boys & Girls, the children’s footwear marketing project of the Cologne-based shoe retailing association GMS, has continued to expand, with the opening of three new specialist stores in the past twelve months. At the end of 2022, Steffen Rüger launched “Boys & Girls Children’s Shoes Rhein-Neckar” in Schwetzingen, in ...
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ArticleGMS affiliates suffer sales decline but outperform other German retailers
In this year’s pandemic-riddled market, affiliates of the Cologne-based shoe retailing association GMS managed to limit losses, achieving significantly better results than the national average. A survey on sales between January and September showed an average drop of 6.4 percent for GMS’s affiliates, compared with a decline of ...
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ArticleBirkenstock ends cooperation with purchasing groups in Germany
Birkenstock is pulling out of the German shoe retailing cooperatives ANWR , GMS and Sabu on the grounds that they are allegedly not sufficiently committed to fighting product piracy. The withdrawal takes effect from December 31. Birkenstock has been a member of the trade associations for ...
