Latest News Briefs – Page 173
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Thomas Gammelgaard Frederiksen, chief executive of Shoe the Bear, and...
Thomas Gammelgaard Frederiksen, chief executive of Shoe the Bear, and Jakob Fuglsang, who founded the Danish company, have both resigned. Thomas Skare Viller, chairman, has become the CEO. Shoe the Bear is part of the Danish Soya Concept Group. The company has recently been advertising for staff, including a new ...
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Rusty Hall will return to Mephisto's U.S. subsidiary on Jan....
Rusty Hall will return to Mephisto's U.S. subsidiary on Jan. 3 in the role of president and chief executive. He had already served in this function between 2010 and 2015. The seasoned manager has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in the comfort footwear industry. Hall most recently served ...
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Barbara Rybka, senior vice president of global digital operations at...
Barbara Rybka, senior vice president of global digital operations at Gucci, is leaving the company after nine years, according to fashionmagazine.it. She was responsible for the relaunch of Gucci's website in 2015. Two other top managers have left the company in the last few weeks. Jacopo Venturini, who took responsibility ...
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According to Women's Wear Daily, EPI has selected Valérie Hermann,...
According to Women's Wear Daily, EPI has selected Valérie Hermann, Ralph Lauren's former president of global brands, to be managing director of the fashion and luxury division of the Parisian investment firm, which owns J.M. Weston and François Pinet, a French chain of high-end shoe retail stores. Hermann will assume ...
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Rihanna, the famous Barbadian singer, has chosen the Jordanian-Romanian designer...
Rihanna, the famous Barbadian singer, has chosen the Jordanian-Romanian designer Amina Muaddi to create the footwear for its Fenty label, where she is partnering with LVMH. Muaddi will continue to work on the shoe collection of a French fashion designer, Alexandre Vauthier.
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Lorenzo Moretti has resigned as chief executive of Office, the...
Lorenzo Moretti has resigned as chief executive of Office, the British shoe retail chain owned by Truthworths of South Africa, after a year in the post. Kerry van der Merwe, chief operating officer, is temporarily taking the role of managing director. After its recent refinancing, Office is planning to close ...
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François Feijoo is leaving as president and chief executive of...
François Feijoo is leaving as president and chief executive of the French Eram chain of shoe shops, following an independent review of its operations. Luc Biotteau, a member of the family that owns the Eram group, will take over the management, as he had already done with another subsidiary, Mellow ...
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Vinzens Lauterburg, a member of the family that founded Fretz...
Vinzens Lauterburg, a member of the family that founded Fretz Men, will take over its management on Jan. 1. The Swiss shoe company will also have a new sales director, Steffen Fredslund, who previously worked for Diesel and Hugo Boss. The two managers will take the place of Daniel Omlin ...
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Ulrik Schultz will resign at the end of this year...
Ulrik Schultz will resign at the end of this year as chief executive of Bonvita, the Danish distributor, which also owns the growing Bundgaard label of children's shoes. The group's chief commercial officer and main owner, Herik Hammer, will become the new CEO. He will also take over the management ...
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Javan Bunch is leaving the Rockport Group after about one...
Javan Bunch is leaving the Rockport Group after about one year in the position of president. Bunch, who previously led Donald J. Pliner, has been reporting to Gregg Ribatt, who was appointed chief executive of Rockport after its takeover in August 2018 by Charlesbank Capital Partners. In addition to the ...
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Dielmann, a German retailer with 49 footwear and sporting goods...
Dielmann, a German retailer with 49 footwear and sporting goods stores operating under banners such as Schuhhaus Dielmann and Sporthaus Robert Hübner, has appointed a retail expert, Manuel Farrokh, as its new executive manager, responsible for project and risk management. In his new role, he will work closely with the ...
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Brandpool will be marketing the Kangaroos Blue, Rooskickx and Flip...
Brandpool will be marketing the Kangaroos Blue, Rooskickx and Flip Flop brands in Switzerland as of January 2020. Bernd Hummel, the German company that holds the license to sell the brands. The new partnership started with the pre-order season for the autumn/winter 2020 collection. Every year, Brandpool sells more than ...
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Joya and Kybun, the Swiss brands of comfort shoes, have...
Joya and Kybun, the Swiss brands of comfort shoes, have developed a common retail concept. Matthias Müller – son of Karl Müller, the founder of the MBT brand of comfort shoes – will be managing the recently introduced retail concept as well as directing the new joint venture Kybun Joya ...
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ARKK Copenhagen opened its new flagship store on 90 square...
ARKK Copenhagen opened its new flagship store on 90 square meters on Østergade 1, in Copenhagen, on Dec. 6. The brand of casual footwear has kept a concept of customer engagement that it had introduced with its earlier pop-up shops. Consumers can design their own sneakers in the ARKKitecht Studio. ...
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Famous Footwear, the brand owned by Caleres, opened a flagship...
Famous Footwear, the brand owned by Caleres, opened a flagship store in Herald Square in New York City on Nov. 15. It is the largest of the chain's 32 stores in greater New York, with its 8,400 square feet divided over two floors, one of which is devoted entirely to ...
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Overcube, the new multi-brand e-commerce operation launched by the Portuguese...
Overcube, the new multi-brand e-commerce operation launched by the Portuguese Kyaia group in March 2018, has opened its first physical store in Lisbon's central Avenida da Liberdade. Customers can try some of the shoes and place orders online at a kiosk for any of the brands offered through the online ...
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The Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has closed his only...
The Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has closed his only standalone store in New York, situated on West 54th Street, but it will have a new one at 717 Madison Avenue soon, according to Footwear News. The original store was opened in 1982 and Carrie Bradshaw, the main character of ...
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GMS, the German voluntary group of shoe retailers, announced at...
GMS, the German voluntary group of shoe retailers, announced at its annual general meeting that it will continue to focus on family-run shoe and sporting goods retailers in 2020. GMS has reported that sales in 2019 were stable from the previous year. In that time, it has welcomed 121 new ...
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Schuhaus Kay, the German shoe retailer from northern Germany, has...
Schuhaus Kay, the German shoe retailer from northern Germany, has been taken over by a Berlin-based investment company called Goal. The local court of Hamburg granted an application for self-administration on Nov. 26. The executive board of Schuhhaus Kay reports that all of the company's shares have been sold to ...
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, has...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, has been relaunched. The German buying group has updated its platform with a new design, several new functions and better compatibility with smartphones and tablets. Check-out has been simplified, the website's loading time has been cut and search engine structures have ...
