Latest News Briefs – Page 118
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René Caovilla opens a store in Faubourg-St-Honoré
The Italian producer of luxury goods René Caovilla inaugurated a store in Paris’ rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré. The store has a VIP lounge that displays the brand’s most exclusive models.
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Rizzo starts trading second-hand bags
Rizzo Group, a footwear, bags and accessories retailer, has launched a service under which people can trade in second-hand bags and suitcases at its Rizzo stores in Sweden and Morris shops in Norway. The item is valued in store and the customer receives a voucher, based on the assessed value ...
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Texon to focus on ProWeave at Lineapelle
Texon will focus on its recently launched ProWeave jacquard weaving technology at the forthcoming Lineapelle and A+A trade shows. At Lineapelle, being held from Sept. 22 to 24, just after the Micam trade show, in Milan, the company will also display Ecoline insoles; BioForm heel counters, and Sportflex Eco ...
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Deichmann launches parcel station pilot
The German footwear company Deichmann has launched a parcel station pilot in its home market. The company has installed the parcel station outside the Deichmann store in Mülheim-Dümpten. The clients who use the click and collect service can retrieve the goods from the pick-up station after receiving a message with ...
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Hermès opens 19th leather goods workshop in France
The French luxury goods firm Hermès has inaugurated its latest leather goods production site in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, near Bordeaux. It is the company’s 19th leather goods workshop in France. Hermès said that it has been expanding its manufacturing capacity to respond to a strong rise demand. The 5,800-square-meter facility was designed ...
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PayPal acquires Japanese buy-now-pay-later venture
U.S.-based payment platform PayPal Holdings has announced the acquisition of Paidy, a digital payment platform based in Japan. Paidy develops a two-sided payment platform and is also a provider of buy-now-pay-later solutions in Japan, a strategically important market for PayPal. According to the American company, almost three-quarters of all purchases ...
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VF board member steps down, reportedly over her views on Black Lives Matter
VF Corp. announced that Veronica Wuu has decided to step down as one of the 12 members of the group’s board of directors, pointing out that this was not the result of any disagreement on any matter relating to VF’s operations, policies or practices. Wuu had joined the board in ...
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Ara Shoes launches premium partnership program
The German shoe company Ara Shoes has rolled out a premium partnership program in a bid to strengthen its relationship with brick-and-mortar retailers. It is offering select retailers additional perks and special services, including discounts, POS and VM support, access to exclusive product releases and participation in events. Ara ...
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Golden Goose celebrates 20 years with a skate bowl in Venice
According to FashionNetwork.com, Golden Goose recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in Venice. For the occasion the Italian brand of distressed sneakers and streetwear brand took a 13-year-old wooden skate bowl – kept until then inside a former cinema in Milan – and had it floated to the Venetian lagoon, where ...
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Higg Index adds new analytics tool to identify risks and opportunities
After identifying a rising demand for environmental data from companies worldwide, the sustainability insights platform Higg (spun out of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition in 2019 as a public-benefit technology company) has introduced a new analytics tool to make it easier for brands and buyers to understand and act to improve ...
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Zalando to join the DAX index
The German online retailer Zalando will join the DAX blue-chip index of the Frankfurt stock exchange on Sept. 20. The stock started trading on Oct. 1, 2014, and has been a constituent of the MDAX index since 2015. Zalando co-founder and co-CEO Robert Gentz said “we are proud to see ...
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Amazon to open 8 extra warehouses in Germany
By mid 2022, Amazon plans to open additional eight warehouses in Germany that will lead to the creation of 3,000 jobs. The sites will be located in Dummerstorf, Erding, Friedrichsdorf, Helmstedt, Hof/Gattendorf, Neu-Ulm, Weiterstadt and Wenden. This year, the company expects to complete the distribution centers of Friedrichsdorf, Neu-Ulm and ...
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Tesco’s F&F to stop selling footwear next year - sources
The British supermarket chain Tesco will stop selling footwear and accessories from spring next year, according to industry sources. The retailer is understood to have been carrying out a review of its F&F clothing business and has decided to gradually withdraw footwear from the range, with completion expected by next ...
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Puma unveils latest collaboration with Animal Crossing
Puma has announced the launch of the new Puma x Animal Crossing: New Horizons Collection. The collaborative collection comprises apparel and footwear for adults and children. The collection’s streetwear silhouettes have been reimagined with natural colors and authentic graphics from the video game developed by Nintendo. The collection features some ...
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Covestro proposes to use digital printing to glue shoes
Covestro, a German manufacturer of polymer materials is proposing hot-melt adhesives based on its Desmomelt U thermoplastic powder to glue the upper and outsole of shoes by using digital printing. “Polyurethane dispersions have proven their worth in adhesives for manual shoe production. But attempts to automate manual application with robot-assisted ...
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German shoe makers H1 sales up by 12.5%
German shoe manufacturers with 50 or more employees enjoyed a 12.5 percent increase in revenues in the first half to €1.44 billion from €1.28 billion a year earlier but have not yet returned to pre-Covid-19 levels. Domestic revenues rose by 12.7 percent to €1.2 billion and foreign sales increased ...
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NEWD.Tamaris launches online store
The German brand Tamaris has launched an international online store for its NEWD.Tamaris sub-brand in a move to increase its presence in the premium segment. The store, which is available in 25 countries, will not focus on “fast-moving trends, but on pure value,” it pointed out. The launch is supported ...
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True Motion enters the U.K. market
Hamish Stewart, who has been working with Brooks Running for more than 20 years, has become U.K. country manager for True Motion, a German running shoe start-up. He will be assisted by another former running shoe veteran, Richard Outterside, as account manager. The brand, which was founded in 2018, ...
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Lotus picks A.P. Hallqvist as distributor for Scandinavia
The British brand Lotus, which was founded in 1759, has appointed A.P. Hallqvist as the official distributor of its footwear and bag collections in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. ”With roots in footwear manufacturing since 1874, A.P. Hallqvist is a well-suited partner to represent the oldest British footwear brand in ...
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Rizzo introduces a consignment model with its suppliers
Rizzo Group has entered a partnership with the fintech company Future of Retail (FoR) which enables it to propose a consignment model to its main suppliers. The deal also allows the troubled Swedish retailer to be less exposed to liquidity constraints while increasing its assortment. Under the arrangement, preferred suppliers ...
