Latest News Briefs – Page 224
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Hogan is going to open a new store in Hamburg....
Hogan is going to open a new store in Hamburg. The sneaker brand already owns stores in Düsseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt and is now opening its fourth store in the German market. Just like Hogan's new store in Milan, the new store in Hamburg will feature a new design that ...
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Here is a French shoe company that is growing fast,...
Here is a French shoe company that is growing fast, while others like J.B. Martin are in trouble: Thanks to a rejuvenated and more colorful collection, Hirica raised its sales last year by 30 percent to €4.2 million and is targeting a 15 percent increase for 2018 with the recent ...
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Online retailers are recording strong growth in Germany, according to...
Online retailers are recording strong growth in Germany, according to the latest figures released by the German E-Commerce and Mail Order Catalog Association (BEVH). The clothing industry recorded an increase of 6.1 percent in the first quarter of 2018, a rate more than double as high as the 2.7 percent ...
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German shoe retailers suffered a double-digit sales decline in the...
German shoe retailers suffered a double-digit sales decline in the first quarter of 2018, due especially to a cold and wet month of March. According to the European Clearing Center, they fell by 16 percent during the period. The latest data indicate that they scored slightly better at the beginning ...
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Sales of footwear declined by nearly 13 percent in the...
Sales of footwear declined by nearly 13 percent in the U.K. during the first quarter, according to a survey by Barclaycard, with sales through physical stores falling by 18.2 percent and online sales growing by merely one percent. The British Retail Consortium said that total retail sales of non-food products ...
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According to the Chinese Leather Industry Association, the country's footwear...
According to the Chinese Leather Industry Association, the country's footwear sector generated sales of $123 billion last year. This was an increase of 4.4 percent as compared to 2016. Overall, China exported 9.6 billion pairs of shoes with a combined value of $45.6 billion, an increase of 3.7 percent in ...
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Aldo Bensadoun, the founder of the international shoe retailing group...
Aldo Bensadoun, the founder of the international shoe retailing group bearing his name, received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards on April 20. Besides his achievements in the business world, Bensadoun made a $25 million donation last year to create the Bensadoun School of Retail ...
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Skechers is expanding the launch of its limited edition Skechers...
Skechers is expanding the launch of its limited edition Skechers D'Lites & Toei Animation One Piece collection, a colorful collection uniting Toei Animation's anime series with Skechers D'Lites footwear, to Europe. The limited edition was originally launched in South Korea and China, with a launch reportedly upcoming in the U.S. ...
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Ecco has teamed up with Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP), a...
Ecco has teamed up with Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP), a technology partner based in both Cambridge, U.K. and Palo Alto, California, on a new project for the data-driven customization of footwear. The project, called Quant-U (“quantified you”), is said to allow for a full digital analysis of the consumer's foot ...
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Hype, an independent streetwear label, has announced the launch of...
Hype, an independent streetwear label, has announced the launch of its first-ever footwear range in collaboration with Schuh, the British shoe retail chain owned by Genesco. Founded by Liam Green in 2011, when he was just 17, Hype is known as a cult brand aimed at the 18-25 demographic. Hype ...
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Filling Pieces, a special Dutch brand of sneakers, has developed...
Filling Pieces, a special Dutch brand of sneakers, has developed its first collection of apparel, using the same combination of luxury materials and technical fabrics, in collaboration with Barneys. The American fashion retailer will sell it exclusively at its flagship stores in New York and Los Angeles as well as ...
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Lumberjack made its debut in the Moto GP on March...
Lumberjack made its debut in the Moto GP on March 18 in Losail, Qatar, at the opening race of this year's Moto GP championship. On that occasion, the brand introduced its new testimonial, Franco Morbidelli, who was also making his debut in the Moto GP category. Morbidelli was the European ...
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The international Cookies show for kids' shoes and lifestyle brands in...
The international Cookies show for kids' shoes and lifestyle brands in Berlin will no longer take place. The summer edition of the show, scheduled for July 3-5, was cancelled earlier this month. The Cookies show was held twice in Berlin. The first edition took place at Kraftwerk Berlin under the same ...
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Binsar Marpoung has passed away at the age of 79....
Binsar Marpoung has passed away at the age of 79. He had been the secretary general of Aprisindo, the Indonesian footwear industry association, since 2009.
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Walter Fink, former owner of the German Fink Schuhe +...
Walter Fink, former owner of the German Fink Schuhe + Sport retail chain of 60 shoe and sporting goods stores, passed away at the age of 87. Born in 1930, Fink joined his father's shoe retail store in 1960. He focused on the expansion of the company before he left ...
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The use of leather in shoe uppers is likely to...
The use of leather in shoe uppers is likely to improve after 2019. According to the latest edition of Leather Pipeline, the market intelligence report on leatherbiz.com, the prospects for a larger use of leather are based on two main reasons. Firstly, the widespread use of mesh uppers in casual ...
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Jean-Pierre Bidegain, a fellow publisher and friend, has sold all...
Jean-Pierre Bidegain, a fellow publisher and friend, has sold all his French shoe-related publications to a company owned by the Societé International du Cuir (SIC), a private company linked to the French Leather Council (CNC) that has a joint venture with UBM Asia for the APLF and Fashion Access fairs ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo will ask shareholders to approve on April 20...
Salvatore Ferragamo will ask shareholders to approve on April 20 a resolution authorizing the company to overcome the principle of one share one vote. Under Italian legislation passed in 2014, listed companies can introduce a loyalty bonus granting up to two voting rights to investors holding shares for at least ...
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Permactum, a new holding company formed last summer to carry...
Permactum, a new holding company formed last summer to carry out the reorganization of Schlatholst, has filed for insolvency proceedings. The Germany shoe retailer has reduced the number of its stores to 12 from 22 in 2015, when it first filed for insolvency.
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Tanya Heath, the Paris-based developer of women's shoes with removable...
Tanya Heath, the Paris-based developer of women's shoes with removable heels, is relocating their production from France to Portugal. The move has allowed her to reduce prices on all models by between 20 and 50 percent. The mechanisms and the heels will continue to be made at the company's own ...
