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The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of...
The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of 136.4 million Brazilian reais (€31.9m-$36.5m) for the third quarter of this year, roughly triple the net loss reported a year ago. Sales for the period were down 3 percent to R$ 417.8 million (€97.8m-$111.7m), while the gross margin shrank fourfold ...
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Store traffic in the U.K. saw its second consecutive quarterly...
Store traffic in the U.K. saw its second consecutive quarterly 2 percent decrease year-on-year in October, according to Springboard, a provider of retail data and analysis. This marks 11 straight months of steady decline. Springboard advances two explanations: first, a tendency among consumers to wait for Black Friday and holiday ...
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Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker got the highest number of searches...
Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker got the highest number of searches for shoe styles on Instagram through Lyst, which was used by 80 million shoppers in 120 countries so far this year for all kinds of fashion products. Balenciaga's ugly and chunky sneaker was followed in Lyst's ranking by the simpler ...
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Is Brazil's export business finally turning around? The country's shoes...
Is Brazil's export business finally turning around? The country's shoes exports rose on a sequential basis by 11.2 percent in volume and 31 percent in value during the month of October, as compared to the previous month, reaching a level of 11 million pairs worth $93.8 million. As compared to ...
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Deckers' latest lawsuit reveals that counterfeiters of its Ugg brand...
Deckers' latest lawsuit reveals that counterfeiters of its Ugg brand boots typically change the name of their domain or marketplace and move funds offshore as soon they realize that a suit is coming. To counter such tactics, Deckers is asking an Illinois District court to grant certain requests before the ...
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The president of Assocalzaturifici, Annarita Pilotti, met with Italian Prime...
The president of Assocalzaturifici, Annarita Pilotti, met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the inauguration of Obuv' Mir Koži, the international exhibition for shoes and leather products in Moscow, and discussed with him of the difficult situation that Italian shoe companies exporting to the region are still facing. This ...
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The European Commission has approved a set of free trade...
The European Commission has approved a set of free trade and investment agreements with Vietnam, submitting them to the member states and the European Parliament for final endorsement. Under the free trade agreement, both Vietnam and the European Union will eliminate 99 percent of their import duties on each other ...
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John Saunders has announced his wish to leave as chief...
John Saunders has announced his wish to leave as chief executive of the British Footwear Association (BFA) by the end of February, after the usual round of footwear trade show, triggering a search for his successor. Indicating that he is evaluating a couple of other options in the commercial field, ...
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Famous for its quirky ideas for the brand, Bernd Hummel...
Famous for its quirky ideas for the brand, Bernd Hummel has come out with a limited edition of 408 pairs of Kangaroos sneakers, called Moonshine, whose colors and graphics are said to have been inspired by the illegal night-time production of alcohol in the U.S. The shoes have been placed ...
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Tod's is pursuing further its project of developing an unconventional...
Tod's is pursuing further its project of developing an unconventional line of products with a contemporary lifestyle, called No_Code. The newest product for this season is a so-called “shoeker,” a patented name which stands for a combination of a regular shoe and a sneaker. Designed in collaboration with a Korean ...
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Christian Louboutin, the French fashion designer known for his stiletto...
Christian Louboutin, the French fashion designer known for his stiletto heels and red-lacquer soles, has launched his first line of shoes for babies, aged six to nine months. They are available in red satin and in two patterns drawn from the adult spring/summer 2019 collection. All have the signature red ...
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Dragon, the Formula E (electric) auto-racing team, will now be...
Dragon, the Formula E (electric) auto-racing team, will now be known as Geox Dragon, thanks to a new long-term agreement with the Italian shoemaker. Geox will be supplying the Dragon team with outerwear and, of course, footwear. The Geox sole, with its heat- and humidity-reducing membrane, will be put to ...
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The Lorenz Shoe Group has received the prestigious Austrian Hermes...
The Lorenz Shoe Group has received the prestigious Austrian Hermes prize for economic achievement in the “successful family enterprise” category. It was founded by the Högl and Lorenz families in 1982, but the Högl family withdrew in 2000, with the Lorenz and Bachmaier families taking over all the shares and ...
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On Dec. 9-10, for the 45th anniversary of its famous...
On Dec. 9-10, for the 45th anniversary of its famous Yellow Boot, Timberland will be hosting an exhibition at the Vinyl Factory in London. On display will be collaborative designs with Stüssy, Supreme, Off-White, Opening Ceremony, OVO and Pharrell Williams as well as a 45th-anniversary limited-edition boot, which will go ...
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The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show...
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, which was acquired by the Premium Group in July 2015 and is held at the Arena Berlin fairgrounds, will not take place next January. According to the organizers of the show, the break will be ...
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Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show,...
Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show, has canceled the L.O.C.K. trade show that was scheduled to take place on Jan. 15-17, 2019, at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. In a statement, Müller says that there were uncertainties surrounding the rental of the airport's Hangar 7 ...
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Moda Made in Italy will take place one week earlier...
Moda Made in Italy will take place one week earlier than originally planned one year from now. The shoe show organized in Munich twice year by Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, is now scheduled to run from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2019, simultaneously with the Oktoberfest, the traditional ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and leathergoods industry association, will organize...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and leathergoods industry association, will organize a trade mission to Ireland at the end of November, presenting collections and staging B2B meetings at the Portuguese Embassy in Dublin. Portugal's shoe exports to Ireland have grown by 60 percent to 576,000 pairs since 2010, but the U.K., ...
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Sympatex Technologies recently received the international B-Corp quality seal for...
Sympatex Technologies recently received the international B-Corp quality seal for above-average corporate management with a comprehensive approach and a social interest that extends outside the company itself. Sympatex is one of the first German companies in the textile industry to receive the seal, which rewards corporate concepts that, more than ...
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Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, the widow of Salvatore Ferragamo, has died...
Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, the widow of Salvatore Ferragamo, has died at the age of 96. Wanda took over from her late husband the eponymous Florence-based brand after he died in 1960, when she was 39 years old. She was 24 years his junior. Salvatore Ferragamo was known for making custom-made ...
