Latest News Briefs – Page 131
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Havaianas sells five NFTs
Havaianas, the flip-flop brand owned by Alpargatas, has sold its first five NFTs (non-fungible tokens), all designed by Adhemas Batista, an artist who hails from São Paulo but lives in Los Angeles. Grouped under the general title Felicidade (Happiness), the blockchain-bound pieces of digital art sold in exchange for the ...
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Allbirds helps Adidas to develop its most climate-friendly running shoe
Working in remote mode in collaboration with Allbirds for 12 months, Adidas has developed its most sustainable performance running shoe. The first 100 pairs of the co-branded model is being raffled off to members of Adidas’ Creators Club at the end of May. The product design and development teams of ...
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Amazon issues a maiden $1bn green bond
Amazon raised $1 billion with the issuance of its first sustainability bond on May 10. The proceeds will be used to invest in renewable energy, clean transport, sustainable buildings, affordable housing, and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment, it said. The U.S. e-commerce plans to be carbon free, on a net basis, ...
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Joaquim José Heitor obtains ISO 14001 certification
The Portuguese footwear company Joaquim José Heitor, which owns the JJ Heitor brand, has obtained an ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 sets the criteria for an environmental management system. The certification was granted after an audit carried out at the end of March by SGS, a Swiss inspection, verification, testing ...
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Deckers wins again in Ugg trademark dispute
Deckers Brands has won another round in a dispute with Australian Leather regarding the use of the Ugg trademark. In 2016, the American company, which owns the Ugg brand, sued Eddie Oygur and his company Australian Leather for selling sheepskin boots as uggs in the U.S. In Australia, ugg is ...
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Shoeaholics opens a huge store in London
Shoeaholics, the discount brand of the British luxury footwear and accessories retailer Kurt Geiger, has opened a 25,000 square feet store in the Westfield London shopping center, located in White City, in west London. It claims that it is the largest footwear store in the U.K. Kurt Geiger created Shoeaholics ...
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Ecco opens flagship store in Shanghai
Danish footwear brand Ecco opened a new flagship store in Shanghai in April. The company said that physical stores remain an important and attractive sales channel for Ecco’s customers, although online shopping has become an essential part of the “new normal.” Additionally, life in Shanghai right now is not hampered ...
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Vans sneaker company co-founder Paul Van Doren dies
Paul Van Doren, a co-founder of Vans, has passed away on May 6 at the age of 90, shortly after the publication of his biography, titled “Authentic.” He started as a service boy at a rubber factory at the age of 16. He acquired his independence in 1966 when he ...
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The auction for Peter Kaiser’s equipment has started
More than 200 pieces of equipment used by the German shoe maker Peter Kaiser are being auctioned. The online procedure started on May 4 and is organized by the Hamburg-based auction house Lüders & Partner. The company went into insolvency on Dec. 1, after filing an application with the Pirmasens ...
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Andrea Montelpare signs a 5-year license deal with Philipp Plein
The Italian shoe maker Andrea Montelpare has obtained a five-year license to create, produce and distribute worldwide children’s shoes under the Philipp Plein brand. The license agreement kicks off with the 2022 spring/summer collection. Based in Fermo, in the Italian region of the Marche, Andrea Montelpare specializes in luxury children’s ...
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Yue Yuen April operating revenues $786.3 million
Yue Yuen Industrial posted consolidated operating revenues of $786.3 million in April, resulting in accumulative operating revenues of $3,278.2 million in the first fourth months of the year. The company did not release comparative figures. Operating revenues represent total sales less sales discounts and sales returns. The Chinese company ...
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News briefsEcco takes its waterless tanning process to the next level
A few years ago, Ecco introduced DriTan, a new tanning process that leads to significant improvements in all relevant parameters such as water and energy, chemicals, wastewater and sludge. This innovation has already earned the Danish footwear brand the SOG Award Winter 2019/20 in the technology category. While the first ...
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StockX opens an authentication center in Australia
StockX, the American online market for sneakers, opened on May 5 an authentication center in Melbourne. It is the company’s first center covering Australia and New Zealand. StockX currently has 11 authentication centers and drop-off locations in addition to its offices in Detroit, London and Tokyo. Australians have been able ...
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FFANY Market Week scheduled Aug. 2
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) said that a physical FFANY Market Week is scheduled to be held in New York the week starting on Aug. 2 at the Warwick New York hotel. The trade show was last held early 2020 and had to be interrupted because of the ...
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Frankfurt Fashion Week goes digital-only this summer
The organizers of the Frankfurt Fashion Week have scrapped plans for a physical event and will go ahead with a digital-only edition amid lingering uncertainty, as Germany and the whole of Europe continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic. The trade fair will be held from July 5 to ...
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L Catterton completes the takeover of Birkenstock
The U.S. private equity L Catterton has completed the acquisition of the German footwear company Birkenstock after the deal was approved by the European Commission. The commission concluded that the acquisition ”would raise no competition concerns, given the companies’ moderate combined market positions resulting from the proposed transaction.” The transaction ...
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On Running is again reported to be eyeing an IPO
On, the Zurich-based sports brand backed by Roger Federer, publicly denied a report in a Swiss newspaper last July that it was planning to go public in 2021. Citing a source close to the matter, Reuters reported again on April 30 that On was making preparations for an initial public ...
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Havaianas in partnership with Fortnite
Havaianas, the flip-flop brand owned by the Brazilian footwear group Alpargatas, has entered into a partnership with the online video game Fortnite released in 2017 by Epic Games and that currently has 350 million players. Thanks to the collaboration, the Havaianas Summer Island will feature in the game. The flip-flop ...
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Chaco releases "Classic" flip-flops for summer
The American brand Chaco Footwear is including the Classic Flip and Classic Flip Leather models in its spring 2021 range. These “performance” flip-flops are made with reinforced, injection-molded polyurethane and polyester webbing. They also have Luvseat arch-support. The Leather model has full-grain leather and a suggested retail price of $75. ...
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Teva collaborates with Polaroid
For the summer Teva is releasing a limited edition of sandals in collaboration with Polaroid. The Teva x Polaroid collection comprises both established Teva silhouettes made with recycled materials and a custom refurbished Polaroid 600 camera. There are two sandal models: the Original Universal Polaroid, in grey, and the Midform ...
