Latest News Briefs – Page 191
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Ferdinand Richter, the Austrian children's shoe producer, has appointed another...
Ferdinand Richter, the Austrian children's shoe producer, has appointed another seasoned executive, Thomas Ridder, to the position of joint managing director. He will work together with Josef Renner, who had been appointed to the same position in April. Renner has been involved in sales at Legero since 2001. Prior to ...
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Camper is looking for a new creative director following the...
Camper is looking for a new creative director following the departure of Romain Kremer, who last signed off the Spanish company's autumn/winter 2019/20 collection. He had been working with the company since 2009, acting as a consultant until he was made creative director in 2014.
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Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently...
Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently created position of sales and business development director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Scandinavia. Simultaneously, Perry Laukens was appointed to the newly created position of sales and business director for the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and nine ...
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Tapestry, the New York based luxury accessories and lifestyle group...
Tapestry, the New York based luxury accessories and lifestyle group whose holdings include Stuart Weitzman, has hired Thomas A. Glaser to be its chief operations officer. Glaser will have full charge of the supply chain and functional oversight of product development and manufacturing resources, distribution, logistics, replenishment, e-commerce fulfillment and ...
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OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as...
OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as chief financial officer and Mark Coffield as general manager for Vietnam, where OrthoLite has recently inaugurated a manufacturing plant. Brice has previously worked for The Hershey Company in Asia and South America. Coffield, who will lead Ortholite's new Vietnamese factory, ...
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VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global...
VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global supply chain, effective June 1. He replaces Tom Glaser, who has left VF after 18 years to take over the role of chief operations officer at Tapestry, formerly known as Coach Inc. Bailey has spent his entire career in manufacturing ...
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La Halle has announced the departure of Philippe Thirache, who...
La Halle has announced the departure of Philippe Thirache, who has been the president of the big French apparel and footwear retailer since 2016. Thirache has been replaced with immediate effect by Stéphane Roche, who has been the managing director of Vivarte, La Halle's parent company, for the past two ...
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Inditex, the owner of Zara, has announced the promotion of...
Inditex, the owner of Zara, has announced the promotion of Carlos Crespo to chief executive. Crespo, who was most recently the company's chief operating officer, will take over some of the functions of Pablo Isla, who had the dual role of chief executive and chairman. The company is now splitting ...
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Vagabond International will take over Vagabond Schuhvertrieb, the sales company...
Vagabond International will take over Vagabond Schuhvertrieb, the sales company that handles the distribution of Vagabond's products in Germany and Austria, on June 1, 2020. For many years, Vagabond and Tygesen Company, a distributor from Denmark, were equally involved through a shared ownership agreement, which will be terminated in June ...
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Fabi has commissioned the agency of Rainer Barth with the distribution...
Fabi has commissioned the agency of Rainer Barth with the distribution of its main brand in the German, Swiss and Austrian markets, starting with the spring/summer 2020 season, according to Schuhkurier. Modeist, the Munich-based agency of Marion Timothy, will market the company's other more casual brand, Barracuda. Due to ongoing difficulties ...
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Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...
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Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first...
Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first French monobrand store at the end of July. As reported by fashionnetwork.com, the 50-square-meter shop will be located in Paris' Marais district, at 12 rue du Temple.
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After a beta test in France that began a year...
After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...
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In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram...
In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram has launched its own internet retail account internationally under @shop. Its own team recommends products such as shoes, handbags and pullovers, tracking trends and posting their pictures on its social media platform, which is owned by Facebook, just like its ...
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Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because...
Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because it is losing about 20-30 million transactions per year, which equals about €1 billion in sales, due to a lack of stock in its own warehouses. Zalando is already working with more than 1,000 shops in Germany, but wants to ...
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The number of brick-and-mortar stores for footwear and clothing has...
The number of brick-and-mortar stores for footwear and clothing has shrunk considerably in Italy in the last eight years. Since 2011, 3,300 shoe stores and over 13,000 clothing stores have been closed, according to a study by Confesercenti, the Italian retailers' association. On the other hand, the share taken by ...
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Italy is suffering from a 30 percent unemployment rate among...
Italy is suffering from a 30 percent unemployment rate among young people, 7 percent higher than the EU average. Nevertheless, Italian companies often find it hard to recruit, especially in certain sectors, including shoe and leather goods firms. According to an estimate by Fondazione Altagamma, based on Unioncamere figures, Italian ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a German trade union, IG BCE, concluded last month a new collective labor agreement, valid until 2025, for the German footwear industry. In September 2016, IG BCE had terminated all collective agreements as well as wage and salary agreements for the ...
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Sugi International, the footwear trading company based in Hong Kong,...
Sugi International, the footwear trading company based in Hong Kong, has signed a two-year, worldwide agreement with Franklin & Marshall, which will also see Sugi take over the brand by 2022. Franklin & Marshall, founded in 1999 by Giuseppe Albarelli and Andrea Pensiero, is an Italian streetwear and sportswear manufacturer ...
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Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that changed ownership and...
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that changed ownership and management last year, and BNS Bergal, the German company behind the Nico and Solitaire brands of footwear accessories, have developed a new line of shoe care products for sneakers. It will be available in all Görtz stores from June and ...
