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ArticleRussian fashion retailers end up with huge unsold stocks
On average, Russian fashion retailers failed to sell 30 percent of their summer collections due to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in record levels of unsold stocks, according to the Moscow-based think tank Fashion Consulting Group. Some retailers were unable to sell half of their summer collections, which now remain on ...
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ArticleU.S. delays TikTok ban to Sept. 27 as Trump gives blessing to deal with Oracle, Walmart
The U.S. Department of Commerce said that it has delayed until Sept. 27 the prohibition of the Chinese mobile application TikTok. The department had previously announced that the ban would start today. The decision comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had given his “blessing” to a proposed deal ...
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ArticleMost Italian shoe makers expects sales to fall by more than 20% this year
More than two-thirds of Italian shoe makers expect their revenues to fall by over 20 percent this year, assuming no worsening of the Covid-19 situation this autumn. In a survey carried out in July by Confindustria Moda’s research center, and released by the footwear association Assocalzaturifici, showed that 52 percent ...
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ArticleObuv Rossii’s August sales rebound sharply
Obuv Rossii has enjoyed a strong rebound in sales. In August, the company’s revenues increased by 1.5 times compared to July and exceeded 1 billion rubles (€13.3m -$11.2m), achieving the highest monthly level this year. Its top line exceeded by 16 percent the average monthly revenues seen in the first ...
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ArticlePeter Kaiser files for insolvency
Peter Kaiser Schuhfabrik has filed for insolvency with a local court in Pirmasens, Germany. The so-called protective shield procedure, which will enable the company to continue trading under restructuring, was motivated by a decline in sales stemming from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Peter Kaiser’s business operations continue without ...
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ArticleInditex returns to profit in Q2
Inditex , the Spanish group that owns the brands Zara, Pull Bear, Massimo Dutti , Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe, returned to a net profit of €214 million in the second quarter ended on July 31 compared with a 409 million loss in the first quarter. Financial analysts ...
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Shoepassion launches ID solution to buy shoes
The Shoepassion group, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin that owns the Heinrich Dinkelacker brand of traditional high-end men’s shoes, has launched an identity management (ID) solution for the sale of footwear. The system was tested during the summer in a pop-up store at the Bikini shopping center in ...
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Klarna valued $10.65 billion in funding round
Klarna, the Swedish provider of online payment services, raised $650 million in an equity funding round, which values the whole company $10.65 billion. Klarna claims that the valuation ranks it as the highest-valued private fintech in Europe and the 4th worldwide. The funding round was led by Silver Lake, a ...
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Obuv Rossii offers pick-up points for Wildberries clients
Obuv Rossii has concluded an agreement under which the clients of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, can pick up their orders in the stores of the Russian footwear group. The first pick-up points have started to operate in 100 Obuv Rossii locations in Siberia and the Far East. By the ...
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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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ArticleANWR footwear revenues drop 19% in first seven months of the year
In the first seven months of this year, the total business volume of the ANWR Group went up by 53 percent to €10.2 billion, driven by a 76 percent increase to €8.6 billion in financial services, but the buying groups of ANWR suffered a 10.7 percent decrease in their own ...
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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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ArticleTod’s posts operating loss in H1, low visibility on future trend
The Italian shoe maker Tod’s posted operating losses in the first half of 2020 due to the impact of lockdown and travel restrictions adopted to tackle the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. It signaled that the start of the third quarter was better than the trend seen in the previous ...
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ArticleAmazon: The Janus-faced company
The current Covid-19 crisis has accelerated Amazon’s consumer goods business exponentially. The Silicon Valley giant doubled its profits in the second quarter of this year and increased its turnover to nearly $89 billion. The share value has also nearly doubled since the middle of March. On Sept. 1, Amazon announced ...
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ArticleSalomon introduces a recyclable sneaker and sets up a recycling network
After three years of research and development, the French outdoor brand Salomon has presented the recyclable Index.01 running shoe, which will be on the market from February 2021. “To create the Index.01, we had to construct a shoe using only two materials that could later be separated and recycled,” explained ...
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ArticleTimberland announces ambitious sustainability goals
Timberland has not only announced that it wants to plant 50 million trees around the world over the next 5 years, but also to create a net positive impact on the environment by 2030. The latter, most ambitious goal includes that the VF Corp.-owned brand wants all of its products ...
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ArticleGallery Fashion & Shoes attracts more visitors than expected
Gallery Fashion & Shoes had an attendance at a ”much higher frequency than expected,” according to Ulrike Kähler, project director and managing director of the organiser, the Igedo Company. No figures were disclosed. The show ran from August 30 to Sept.1 but also included Showroom Concept, that was held ...
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ArticleDesigner Brands sees challenging H2 as Q2 sales fall by 42.8%
The American shoe retailer Designer Brands, formerly known as DSW, expects the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to have a significant impact on its business in the second half of 2020, with a double-digit decline in sales likely and a return to profitability seen as “challenging.” As consumer preference shifts from ...
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ArticleOffice obtains rescue package ahead of store closures
The South African retailer Truworths will provide a £6.5 million (€7.3m-$8.6m) secured revolving credit facility to its British footwear unit Office as part of a rescue package. It noted that the funds will come from existing group cash reserves and will be distributed in a phased manner over the next ...
