Latest News Briefs – Page 201
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Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for...
Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for footwear to another German company, MCB. Directed by Markus Bennemann, MCB has already made the second shoe collection for Chiemsee. The first collection for spring/summer 2019 is currently being delivered to the trade. For winter 2019/20, MCB recently presented the new ...
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Vans has partnered with Led Zeppelin for a capsule collection...
Vans has partnered with Led Zeppelin for a capsule collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of the rock band's eponymous first album. Like the original band, the Vans x Led Zeppelin collection is a four piece, comprising a long-sleeve T-shirt, a baseball cap, high-top sneakers and low-top sneakers. The low-tops, called Era, ...
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Through a digital B2B platform, Ricosta, the big German brand of children's...
Through a digital B2B platform, Ricosta, the big German brand of children's footwear, and Lloyd Shoes, the German shoe manufacturer, are presenting their retail clients with a new “endless aisle” called Fashion Cloud. Among other things, Fashion Cloud allows clients to check the availability of missing items from their stores in real time ...
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Hermès has launched its first podcast series, entitled “Le Faubourg...
Hermès has launched its first podcast series, entitled “Le Faubourg des rêves” (the district of dreams). The series is named after the Parisian address of the brand's long-established flagship store – 24, rue de Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Each of the nine 12-minute episodes focuses on some of the key figures at ...
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Gola, the British brand of sneakers, will be sponsoring Roy...
Gola, the British brand of sneakers, will be sponsoring Roy Race, of the Melchester Rovers, in the Roy of the Rovers comic for the rest of the 2018-2019 season. Race appears in custom, red-and-yellow Gola boots on the cover of the latest issue, “Teamwork,” published on Feb. 7. Gola first ...
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Grouped under the same national umbrella organization, Confindustria Moda, Italian...
Grouped under the same national umbrella organization, Confindustria Moda, Italian fashion and footwear companies showed their latest products to buyers simultaneously in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, on March 5-7. They are staging a similar joint event in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on March 11-12. The Italian government is ...
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Sabu, the German voluntary group of independent retailers, welcomed a...
Sabu, the German voluntary group of independent retailers, welcomed a total of 500 retailers to its trade show, held on Feb. 23-24 in Heilbronn. About 150 exhibitors with 170 brands presented their new collections for the 2019/20 autumn/winter season. According to Sabu, trends at the show included animal prints, fancier ...
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The 96th edition of Lineapelle, which was held at Fieramilano...
The 96th edition of Lineapelle, which was held at Fieramilano Rho on Feb- 20-22, saw the number of visitors increase slightly, up by 1 percent as compared with the February 2018 edition. Visitors came from 114 countries. Russia and Japan showed the largest increases, with visitors up by 29 percent ...
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The Skechers Foundation's tenth annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk,...
The Skechers Foundation's tenth annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, in October 2018, raised more than $2 million. As a result, Skechers has now distributed checks totaling more than $1 million to six educational foundations and delivered a seventh check – for about $600,000, in its largest single donation to ...
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Sperry is launching a collection of sustainable shoes for spring...
Sperry is launching a collection of sustainable shoes for spring 2019, made from plastic taken out of the ocean. The Sperry x Bionic collection was made possible by a partnership with Bionic and Waterkeeper Alliance. The collection uses “Bionic” yarn, which is spun from plastic recovered from marine and coastal ...
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Lyst, a global metasearch platform for fashion, has launched what...
Lyst, a global metasearch platform for fashion, has launched what it calls the Sneaker Intelligence Unit. The company has recruited a network of “sneaker experts” by administering an online test and, for those who score at least 80 percent, a “'mastery' stage challenge.” Lyst then solicits opinions from these experts ...
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In the last two weeks of January, Diego Della Valle,...
In the last two weeks of January, Diego Della Valle, chairman and co-chief executive of Tod's, bought an additional take of about 2 percent in the company after it issued disappointing full-year sales figures, prompting the share price to fall. The shares are not part of an agreement reached with ...
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Asso, an Italian producer of children's shoes, is diversifying into...
Asso, an Italian producer of children's shoes, is diversifying into the adult segment by buying Keys, an Italian footwear and apparel brand, from the Opera group. Asso said that it plans to expands Keys' distribution network, which is currently limited to Italy and Northern Europe. The autumn/winter 2019/2020 collection of ...
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A veteran of the footwear industry, Anton Magnani, led the...
A veteran of the footwear industry, Anton Magnani, led the management team that has bought out a Florentine leathergoods firm, BMB Manifattura Borse, from a German private equity firm, Halder, which had acquired it in 2013. BMB produces high-end products for brands like Chanel. BMB has annual sales of about ...
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In 2020, Crocs will be relocating its headquarters from Niwot...
In 2020, Crocs will be relocating its headquarters from Niwot to Broomfield, another town in the same state of Colorado. This new building, which already stands, is more spacious, at 80,000 square feet, and more conveniently located, near the growing commercial corridor of Route 36, which passes through both Boulder ...
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N.d.c. made by hand has been sold to Maxim Telitsyn...
N.d.c. made by hand has been sold to Maxim Telitsyn and his wife Els, a couple of Belgian independent investors. The high-end shoe brand was founded in 2002 by Arnaud Zannier and Enrique Corbi. Corbi left the company in 2014. Arnaud Zannier is also the founder of Zannier Hôtel, a ...
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Sergio Rossi has appointed for the first time a manager...
Sergio Rossi has appointed for the first time a manager in charge of omni-channel retailing, Riccardo Milani, who comes from Boggi, where he organized the e-commerce operations of the Milan-based menswear firm. He worked previously for Moleskine and an e-commerce specialist. Formerly owned by Kering, Sergio Rossi is now a ...
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Giorgio Presca, a well-known figure in the Italian footwear industry,...
Giorgio Presca, a well-known figure in the Italian footwear industry, has been appointed as interim chief executive of Emilio Pucci, the Italian fashion house owned by LVMH. He replaces the outgoing CEO, Mauro Grimaldi. Described as a turnaround expert, Presca worked until last September as CEO of Golden Goose, the ...
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Mirapodo is restructuring its purchasing department. Franka McHardy, 35, is...
Mirapodo is restructuring its purchasing department. Franka McHardy, 35, is assuming overall management of Mirapodo's purchasing department. She will be responsible for the Buying & Category Management division, overseeing the German online retailer's diverse product categories and selection, and development and expansion of relationships with suppliers. Philipp Ludewig, 28, will ...
