Latest News Briefs – Page 152
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Shoe Zone CEO and chairman increase their stakes
Anthony Smith, the chief executive of Shoe Zone, and Charles Smith, the company’s chairman, have increased their stakes in the British footwear retailer by buying the shares owned by Jeremy Sharman, a non‐executive director of the company who has decided to leave the board after holding a seat for nine ...
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Buffalo beefs up its sales team
Buffalo, the German footwear brand acquired by Deichmann in October 2016, has hired three new sales representatives for the German and Austrian markets. Torben-Friis Steffen will oversee the East/West region in Germany, Klaus Kaiser will cover Southern Germany and Austria and Magnus von Dobbeler will be responsible for customers in ...
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Tamaris wins German Brand Award
Tamaris has won the German Design Council’s annual German Brand Award in the “Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation” category for its Fashletics collection. The brand has credited the ad agency Men at Work for its “conceptual support.” Marlena Hanke, head of creation at Tamaris, describes Fashletics as a “combination ...
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German shoe chain Dielmann seeks investors
On Sept. 1, the Darmstadt District Court opened creditor protection proceedings for the local footwear chain Schuhhaus Dielmann and the sports retailer Sporthaus Robert Hübner. Self-administration was decided for both companies. The previous managements stepped down from both companies in June with the application of so-called protective shield proceedings. The ...
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News briefsAra Shoes wants to modernize operations and cut jobs
Due to the coronavirus crisis, the German company Ara Shoes wants to accelerate the restructuring process it started in early 2020. This will include a workforce reduction at the Langenfeld site in order to compensate for the loss of sales this year and the negative forecast for the next two ...
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Li & Fung appoints chief customer officer
Li & Fung of Hong Kong has appointed Deepika Rana to the new post of chief customer officer. A 17-year veteran of at the international sourcing group, Rana will retain the titles of president of supply chain solutions, president of the executive office, and executive vice president and country director ...
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Ecco wins German Design Award for two models
Ecco has won the German Design Council’s annual German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its Biom 2.0 trail shoe and its Exowrap all-terrain sandal. The competition for the awards came from more than 5,400 projects from 63 countries. The Biom 2.0 is a hybrid urban and ...
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News briefsAllbirds enters South Korea
Allbirds, the Californian brand of sustainable footwear, has entered the South Korea market. The brand was created in 2016 by Joey Zwillinger and Tim Brown with one model, the Wool Runner, which uses superfine merino wool from New Zealand. Allbirds said that it had planned to enter the Korean market ...
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Amazon’s head of European retail is stepping down
Xavier Garambois, who has been running Amazon’s European retail operations for the past eight years, is leaving the company. According to The Telegraph, he will be replaced by Jorrit Van der Meulen, Amazon’s vice president for Europe, who has also been in charge of Amazon Devices (Alexa, Vesta, etc.) outside ...
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CIC vice-president Sergio Panossian passes away
Sergio Panossian, the vice-president of the Argentinean footwear association Cámara de la Industria del Calzado (CIC), has passed away. Panossian was a popular and influential representative of the country’s footwear industry. His family indicated that he was victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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L.K. Bennett introduces cluster managers
The British premium womenswear retailer L.K. Bennett has introduced cluster managers who will be responsible for more than one location. The move will result in 19 redundancies. The company said that the reorganization stems from a decline in trade in stores, while the retailer has seen a significant increase in ...
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ILM canceled due to Covid-19 situation in Offenbach
ILM, the German international leather goods fair, was canceled in Offenbach, where the event was to be held from Sept. 5 to 7. The city of Offenbach withdrew the authorization to hold the show and the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in the town “was decisive” in the local authority’s ...
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News briefsClarks celebrates its Somerset roots in new campaign
Clarks is celebrating its origins in the campaign of its autumn/winter 2020 collection called “Then. Now. Always.” The company was founded in 1825 in Street, in the English county of Somerset, where it is still based. The campaign was shot in Somerset with the contribution of 12 artists and ...
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Converse in partnership with Moncler and Hiroshi Fujiwara
Converse has entered a collaboration with 7 Moncler Fragment, a partnership between Moncler, the Italian producer of luxury down jackets, and the Japanese streetwear designer Hiroshi Fujiwara. Under the collaboration, known as 7 Moncler Fragment + Converse Chuck 70, Fujiwara has designed two Chuck 70 low sneakers as part of ...
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Polygiene and Dr. Scholl’s to team up for antibacterial and odor-free insoles
Polygiene has announced that, moving forward, Dr. Scholl’s insoles will combine two Polygiene technologies, including the antibacterial Stays Fresh Technology and the Odor Crunch treatment. The Dr. Scholl’s Massaging Gel Work Insole, designed for people who stay on their feet all day long, will be the first product to incorporate ...
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News briefsHannah Colman confirmed as Jimmy Choo’s CEO
Hannah Colman has been appointed chief executive officer of the luxury shoe maker Jimmy Choo, reporting to John Idol, the chairman and CEO of the parent company, Capri Holdings. She has been holding the job on an interim basis since May. Colman was one of the brand’s earliest employees when ...
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News briefsWalmart launches Walmart+ membership program
Walmart is launching the membership program Walmart+, its much anticipated response to Amazon Prime. Membership will be available to all U.S. customers on Sept. 15. It will cost $98 a year or $12.95 a month and includes a 15-day free trial period. Members will receive unlimited free delivery from stores, ...
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Russian shoe market may recover from mid-2021
The most optimistic forecast envisages that the sales on the Russian fashion market will recover only around mid-2021, Anna Lebsac-Kleimans, director of the Russian analytical agency Fashion Consulting Group said. In 2020, sales are likely to contract by 25 to 40 percent compared to the previous year, she said. The ...
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Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh steps
Tony Hsieh, 46, has retired as the chief executive of the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com after nearly 20 years at the helm. He has been replaced by the company’s chief operating officer Kedar Deshpande. Zappos started as Shoesite.com, founded by Nick Swinmurn. The company’s name was changed to ...
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Directa Plus's G+ graphene obtains patent for rubber outsoles
Directa Plus, an Italian producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, has been granted a patent in Italy for its G+ graphene that aims to improve the performance of rubber-based shoe outsoles. The patent covers both the formula containing G+ and the ...
