Latest News Briefs – Page 209
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Rainer Worbs, chief executive of Roland and MyShoes, the German...
Rainer Worbs, chief executive of Roland and MyShoes, the German shoe retailers that are part of the Deichmann group, will retire on June 30, 2019. At MyShoes, Helén Billkrantz, who recently joined the company as executive director, responsible for purchasing, will replace him. The 44-year-old previously worked as chief buyer ...
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Sabine Schmitz is leaving Legero to join the Josef Seibel...
Sabine Schmitz is leaving Legero to join the Josef Seibel group on Jan. 1 as designer of lounge shoes for its Romika brand. That has been her specialty at Legero since 2004. Prior to that, she worked for Elefanten.
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Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to...
Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to be its first global artistic director. He will be splitting his time between his own Christopher Raeburn brand, based in London, and Timberland's offices in New Hampshire, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Known for his green philosophy and use of recycled ...
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Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez,...
Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez, previously working as senior buying director for Europe and the Middle East at Nike, became vice president for Zalando's product line for woman. Diez succeeds Dalbir Bains, who left Zalando after four years. Before her career at Nike, Diez worked ...
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Setting its sights on China, Australian-based R.M. Williams signed up...
Setting its sights on China, Australian-based R.M. Williams signed up to sell its boots and leathergoods through Secoo, which claims to be Asia's largest e-commerce platform for luxury goods, notably as measured as sales per order. Three R.M. Williams collections by the Austrialian companies – Burnished, Craftsman and Signature Craftsman ...
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Bernd Hummel, the longtime licensee of Pentland Group for the...
Bernd Hummel, the longtime licensee of Pentland Group for the Kangaroos brand based in Germany, has widened the territory of the license to the markets of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which was previously handled by another licensee, Viking Footwear. To help service the Nordic market, Bernd Hummel will work ...
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, is...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's internet platform for shoe retailers, is expanding into Austria. The German buying group has launched a new internet platform there, called Schuhe.at, where affiliated retailers will be able to sell their products as of 2019.
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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed a cooperation agreement with Mirapodo. Retailers affiliated with Schuhe.de will be able to offer their product lines through Mirapodo. ANWR has recently signed similar agreements with Amazon, Zalando, eBay and Spartoo, the French online shoe retailer that has agreed to ...
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Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to...
Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to integrate online and offline channels as part of its evolution from an online retailer to an open ecosystem, or platform. Through Connected Retail, Zalando's fashion partners can take orders from Zalando customers themselves and ship the goods directly from their ...
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Hermès has unveiled its first-ever Chinese e-commerce site. The site...
Hermès has unveiled its first-ever Chinese e-commerce site. The site offers ready-to-wear clothing for women and men, fragrances, shoes, jewelry, as well as its signature handbags except for its Kelly and Birkin models, which are not available. According to reports by Jing Daily, the overall design of the new Chinese ...
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Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in...
Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in Munich around July 2019. Making ample use of large screens and omnichannel tools, it will occupy more than 2,000 square meters on two floors in the Joseph Pschorr Haus at 19-21, Neuhauser Strasse. The new flagship will take the place ...
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Golden Goose says it is planning to introduce an “emotive...
Golden Goose says it is planning to introduce an “emotive customization” concept at a new store that it will open in Milan in January, called Golden Goose Lab, where its craftsmen will adapt existing models to the customers' wishes. Silvio Camapara, chief executive of the Italian brand of distressed sneakers ...
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The Natural Store has filed for voluntary liquidation, closing its...
The Natural Store has filed for voluntary liquidation, closing its two stores in the Chelsea and Covent Garden districts of London. The retailer claimed to have opened the first shoe store on Neal Street in 1977, followed by many others. It is the property of The Boot Tree, which is ...
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Continuing a trend toward larger premium physical stores, CCC has...
Continuing a trend toward larger premium physical stores, CCC has opened a flagship of more than 1,000 square meters in the Max City shopping center of Pula in Croatia. It is the company's 25th store in the country.
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Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon....
Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon. It's the fourth store directly operated by the German brand in Portugal, where it also has a factory producing 7,000 pairs per year. It also has ten shop-in-shops in local footwear stores.
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Alibaba's Single's Day festival collected orders worth $30.8 billion in...
Alibaba's Single's Day festival collected orders worth $30.8 billion in terms of merchandise value on Nov. 11, or 27 percent more than one year ago. The 24-hour event in China was much more successful than the 36-hour Amazon Prime Day in July, which racked an estimated $4.2 billion.
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Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated...
Adidas and Nike were among the 237 brands that generated sales of more than 100 million yuan renmimbi (€12.6m-$14.4m) at Alibaba's Single's Day consumption festival on Nov. 11. New Balance was also a winner with 60,000 pairs of shoes ordered during a pre-sales program. Overall, consumers placed orders for a ...
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Zalando booked a net loss of €41.7 million in the...
Zalando booked a net loss of €41.7 million in the third quarter, up sharply from €11.1 million in the year-ago period, while sales growth slowed down to 11.7 percent from 28.7 percent. The adjusted operating profit (Ebit) sank to a negative level of €38.9 million on total turnover of €1.2 ...
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Michael Kors, which acquired Jimmy Choo in November of last...
Michael Kors, which acquired Jimmy Choo in November of last year, reported better than expected revenues from the brand for the second quarter of its financial year, ended on Sept. 30, with double-digit growth on a pro forma basis. A contribution of $116.7 million from Jimmy Choo helped boost the ...
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Stuart Weitzman's sales declined by one percent to $95 million...
Stuart Weitzman's sales declined by one percent to $95 million in the first quarter of Tapestry's financial year, ended on Sept. 29. The drop was attributed to ongoing development and delivery delays, but the management said that production levels and shipments have now stabilized. The total revenues of the group, ...
