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Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and...
Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and managing director of its Asia-Pacific division. He comes from Timberland, where he led its Asia-Pacific business for six years before becoming president of the brand in 2014. He left Timberland in July of last year, when he was replaced by ...
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Cole Haan has announced a long-term retail, wholesale and e-commerce...
Cole Haan has announced a long-term retail, wholesale and e-commerce distribution agreement with Sitoy Retailing, a subsidiary of Sitoy Group Holdings, for Greater China. Sitoy will bring Cole Haan to consumers in Hong Kong, Macau and China through various retail channels from summer 2017. The deal covers all distribution of ...
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Shoe retailers in Germany will get a selection of products...
Shoe retailers in Germany will get a selection of products for their stores from Nike if they belong to ANWR or Sabu Schuh & Marketing, the two major voluntary groups in the sector, starting from the spring/summer 2018 season. Nike will issue a single bill to each of the two ...
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Sabu, the German cooperative of independent shoe retailers, has launched...
Sabu, the German cooperative of independent shoe retailers, has launched on Sept. 1 a new e-learning platform to train people working in the shoe retail sector. The platform was developed in cooperation with HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and ANWR, the other major German retail cooperative. It ...
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Görtz, the German shoe retailer, and Wortmann, the German shoe...
Görtz, the German shoe retailer, and Wortmann, the German shoe producer that owns the Tamaris, Jana, Caprice, Be Natural and Marco Tozzi brands of footwear, will join forces to optimize the availability of products at the point of sale. Their collaboration has been steered by a German business consultancy, Hachmeister ...
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Lloyd Shoes has announced the development of an electronically extended...
Lloyd Shoes has announced the development of an electronically extended aisle as part of its multichannel strategy. The German shoe brand developed the in-store ordering system together with Sinner Schrader Commerce and Novomind. The system is intended to enable employees in Lloyd stores to view the entire online portfolio and, ...
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Fashionette, the e-tailer specializing in designer handbags, has launched a...
Fashionette, the e-tailer specializing in designer handbags, has launched a revamped online shop in the U.K., which follows the relaunch in Germany earlier this year. The new website features expanded editorial content and is optimized for mobile devices. Fashionette was recently honored with the Shop Usability Award 2017, a German ...
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Hermès reported a particularly high operating margin of 34.3 percent...
Hermès reported a particularly high operating margin of 34.3 percent for the first half of this year, up from 33.9 percent in the year-ago period. Net earnings rose by 11 percent to €605 million. As previously reported, the French luxury goods company's sales increased by 11 percent to €2,713 million ...
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Primark is expected to report a 13 percent sales increase...
Primark is expected to report a 13 percent sales increase in constant currencies for the financial year ended Sept. 16, with growth of 20 percent in local currencies and one percent on a same-store basis, according to its parent company, Associated British Foods. The operating margin was higher than 10 ...
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Netshoes, which remains the largest pure e-commerce player in the...
Netshoes, which remains the largest pure e-commerce player in the Brazilian market and in Latin America, booked a 15 percent increase in net sales to 461.3 million Brazilian reais (€123.7m-$146.7m) in the second quarter ended June 30, but the quarterly net loss grew to R$35.2 million (€9.4m-$11.2m) from R$33.6 million a year ...
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China's shoe exports declined by 3.4 percent to 222.3 billion...
China's shoe exports declined by 3.4 percent to 222.3 billion yuan renminbi (€28.6bn-$34.0bn) in the first eight months of this year, according to the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA). On the other hand, an official of the association has reportedly indicated that there has been a rise in imports and ...
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Shoe exports from Brazil grew by 14.7 percent in U.S....
Shoe exports from Brazil grew by 14.7 percent in U.S. dollars in the first seven months of this year, reaching $608 million, but this was only due to a foreign currency exchange gain, and the country's shoe industry association, Abicalçados, is concerned about the country's future competitiveness following a recent ...
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The traditional price gap for luxury goods between China and...
The traditional price gap for luxury goods between China and Europe is shrinking. According to a study by Deloitte, the gap has shrunk by a quarter over the last 12 months. Key results of the study were reported by The Financial Times in early September. An increasing number of Chinese ...
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ISM Search, the European U.K.-based executive recruitment and head-hunting service...
ISM Search, the European U.K.-based executive recruitment and head-hunting service specializing in the sporting goods sector, recently conducted a survey among its candidates in the industry to find out the relevant factors in the successful hiring and retention of key talents. According to ISM, it is the first survey of ...
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Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global...
Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global meat and leather empire around JBS, has been put in jail in Brasilia on charges of graft and other serious crimes. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended the immunity that had been granted to the businessman in a plea bargain ...
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Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement...
Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement for a certain number of products from its Vegan range, made at a factory in Vietnam, that were sold until recently in North America as well as in some European countries, China, Australia and New Zealand. The products in question ...
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Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth...
Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth study on the footwear market in Russia, in collaboration with Apex, Brazil's export promotions agency. Abicalçados values the Russian footwear market at $10 billion in 2016, and 75 percent of the shoes sold in the country are imported from abroad. ...
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Eram is celebrating its 90th anniversary with the release of...
Eram is celebrating its 90th anniversary with the release of a limited line of shoes, called Choose, that can change color. Fiber optic cables woven into the upper react through a Bluetooth connection to signals coming from the wearer's smartphone. An app developed by a French company, Phoceis, allows the ...
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Mephisto reports that a special edition of two vintage sneakers...
Mephisto reports that a special edition of two vintage sneakers created for the Concepts sneaker store of Concepts International in Boston sold out in only 30 minutes. The two styles were more contemporary and colorful versions of the brand's iconic Match model in premium leather, one in mint and the ...
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Hunter Boots is releasing a first collaborative limited-edition line of...
Hunter Boots is releasing a first collaborative limited-edition line of backpacks in rubberized leather, featuring ironic and naïve hand-drawn designs by a makeup artist, Isamaya Ffrench, which is being sold exclusively in London's Dover Street Market. Raised in Cambridge, the designer is a consultant for Tom Ford's beauty line. As ...
