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BASF New Business has acquired all the shares of Advanc3D...
BASF New Business has acquired all the shares of Advanc3D Materials, based in Hamburg, and Setup Performance, based in Lyon. Both companies are start-ups focusing on 3D printing. Advanc3D Materials offers tailor-made plastic powders and formulations for selective laser sintering (SLS) as well as process know-how. Setup Performance is Advanc3D ...
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Boa Technology has opened a new global headquarter in the...
Boa Technology has opened a new global headquarter in the Zeppelin Development Flight building in Denver. The space of 85,000 square feet is more than three times bigger than its previous location, and it doubles the capacity of its R&D operations. Founded in 2001, the specialist in technical shoe lacing ...
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Michael D. Christensen has become the new general manager of...
Michael D. Christensen has become the new general manager of Ecco for Central Europe, taking over from Frank Dissmann who had been responsible for the region since January 2017. He will work with new product manager for Central Europe, Christian Fischer, who comes from the Mammut Sports Group, replacing Annette ...
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Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel...
Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel and two other managers 13 years ago, is leaving the company in mid-October to become the new general manager of GEB, a German voluntary group of shoe retailers specializing in higher-end footwear. The members include big names like Prange and ...
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Tim Schwander, chief sales officer at Legero United, has left...
Tim Schwander, chief sales officer at Legero United, has left the Austrian shoe company behind the Legero, Superfit, Think! and Vios brands. He joined the company one year ago and left this month for personal reasons. His responsibilities for group's sales and marketing divisions will be divided among Rudy Haslbeck, ...
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Geox has appointed a former secretary general of the United...
Geox has appointed a former secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, to its ethics and sustainable development committee, with a brief to help the company update its code of ethics and implement its guidelines for relations with employees, shareholders, clients and suppliers. Annan won the Nobel Prize in ...
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Stefano Cantino, marketing, communications and business development director for the...
Stefano Cantino, marketing, communications and business development director for the Prada group, has stepped down. Since he joined the group in 1997, he has worked as general manager of Car Shoe, brand director for Church's and marketing director for Prada. His departure coincides with an overhaul of the communications department, ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has appointed Riccardo Vannetti, a former journalist, as...
Salvatore Ferragamo has appointed Riccardo Vannetti, a former journalist, as its chief marketing officer, replacing Antonio Burrello who had joined the company in January 2017 from Ermenegildo Zegna. Vannetti will be in charge of marketing and communications. Since January 2016, he was tutorship director at Pitti Immagine, the organizer of ...
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Wayne Kulkin, a 25-year industry veteran who led Stuart Weitzman...
Wayne Kulkin, a 25-year industry veteran who led Stuart Weitzman for 25 years, has been appointed by Arezzo as head of international operations. Based in New York, he reports directly to Alexandre Birman, chief executive of the big Brazilian company. His main task is to promote the growth in the ...
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Deckers Brands, which own Ugg and other footwear brands, has...
Deckers Brands, which own Ugg and other footwear brands, has promoted Steve Fasching to the position of chief financial officer, succeeding Tom George from July 16. George had announced his wish to step down to pursue other interests in March, after nine years with the company. Fasching started at Deckers ...
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Dr. Martens has taken over the distribution of its products...
Dr. Martens has taken over the distribution of its products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as part of its strategy to get closer to the consumer. The brand's parent company, Airwear International, is going to set up a sales and marketing office for the region in Düsseldorf, reporting to Daniel ...
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Hermès is experimenting with a store for shoes only. It...
Hermès is experimenting with a store for shoes only. It will offer 150 styles of shoes for six months alone at a 115-square-meter site on Green Street, in the Soho district of New York. The styles were created by Hermès designer, Pierre Hardy, and two versions of its mules and ...
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Peter Kaiser will launch a so-called #shoebar, offering customers the...
Peter Kaiser will launch a so-called #shoebar, offering customers the possibility to create their customized Peter Kaiser shoe model, at selected retailers and big fashion retail stores in Germany as well as in some export markets in September, for a total of 30 partner stores in the pilot phase of ...
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CCC continues with its store expansion. Recently the Polish-based chain...
CCC continues with its store expansion. Recently the Polish-based chain of shoe and leathergoods stores opened a new flagship store in Berlin. The store measures 1,800 square meters and is located in a premium historical landmark across from Berlin's well-known KaDeWe department store. The premium format of the store was ...
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Schuhe24, the German online shoe retail portal, is entering the...
Schuhe24, the German online shoe retail portal, is entering the Austrian market and expanding its cooperation with the German-based GMS buying group. Retailers affiliated with GMS in Austria are able to use the services of Schuhe24, offering products on the online shoe retail portal from next month on. Schuhe24 was ...
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Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German...
Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer who was formerly a member of ANWR's supervisory board, aims to diversify from footwear by entering the sporting goods and fashion sectors. A new internet portal, Sportmarken24.de, was launched in February. It is managed by Benner's wife, Valeska ...
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Vivarte has completed the sale of its André chain of...
Vivarte has completed the sale of its André chain of shoe shops to Spartoo, the French group specializing in internet sales of footwear. The result is a French company with annual sales of nearly €250 million. Spartoo has agreed to take over all of André's 210 points of sales, including ...
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Louis Vuitton has decided to lower its prices in mainland...
Louis Vuitton has decided to lower its prices in mainland China in response to the latest cuts made by the government on import duties and value-added tax in the country, which came into effect on July 1, and Gucci followed the move a few days later, with average price reductions ...
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J.M. Weston has moved its flagship store on Paris' Avenue...
J.M. Weston has moved its flagship store on Paris' Avenue des Champs-Elysées to the other side of the street. The new 400-square-meter space has been completely renovated in a gentleman's club style. It features a women's department and a polishing a repair area. Owned by the Descours family, which used ...
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Many sporting goods retailers in various European countries have been...
Many sporting goods retailers in various European countries have been opening stores specializing in the sale of sneakers in the past few years. A Swedish sports retailer, Stadium, has already opened two stores under the Sneakers Point banner in the Swedish cities of Norrköping and Malmö, as well as an ...
