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Skechers Performance has been named the official footwear partner for...
Skechers Performance has been named the official footwear partner for the 2017 Solheim Cup, the women's team golf competition between Europe and the U.S. The event will take place in the U.S., at the Des Moines Golf and Country Club in Iowa, on Aug. 18-20. Selected players will wear a limited-edition ...
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K-Swiss has launched a new campaign to promote its “Generation...
K-Swiss has launched a new campaign to promote its “Generation K” shoe collection, which targets, in particular, the Gen Z and millennial market. For this campaign, the brand has hired young entrepreneurs who have a large following on social media, and who will appear both in the print campaign and ...
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Deichmann has brought a new look to its range by...
Deichmann has brought a new look to its range by launching nine styles of sneakers from Adidas, Fila, Nike and Puma. They became available online and in selected stores at the end of July. The low-cost German shoe retailer is promoting the collection under the title #Athlashion by Deichmann, with ...
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Design Attack, which was a component of the former GDS,...
Design Attack, which was a component of the former GDS, will run as an independent two-day event for new brands, starting on the eve of Gallery Shoes on Aug. 26. It will be staged at 114 Kölnerstrasse in Düsseldorf. Tag it, the private label show of volume suppliers that ran ...
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Lineapelle New York, which was held at the Metropolitan Pavilion...
Lineapelle New York, which was held at the Metropolitan Pavilion on July 18-19, hosted 120 exhibitors, an increase of 20 percent versus the previous edition, and welcomed 1,300 visitors. Lineapelle will be back in New York from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 2018. Meanwhile, the trade show will hold its ...
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Zalando continues its shopping spree with the takeover of yet...
Zalando continues its shopping spree with the takeover of yet another start-up, Anatwine. The European e-commerce giant first acquired a 20 percent stake in this British software firm in May, but announced in July that it was taking over the company entirely. The purchase price has not been made public. ...
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Zalando and Bestseller United, a Danish clothing group, have entered...
Zalando and Bestseller United, a Danish clothing group, have entered into a joint venture agreement for the shared ownership of FashionTrade.com, the online fashion marketplace founded by Bestseller in 2015. Zalando enters into the joint venture with a capital increase at FashionTrade, which will boost the growth of the B2B ...
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Yoox Net-a-porter (YNAP) has inaugurated a tech hub in London....
Yoox Net-a-porter (YNAP) has inaugurated a tech hub in London. Located in west London's White City, the hub has been designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, the architect behind the Eden Project domes in Cornwall. The 6,500-square-meter facility can host up to 650 IT experts, including the current 500 employees of the ...
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Marcato Capital Management has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Brand...
Marcato Capital Management has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Brand to sell itself at an attractive valuation or face a battle to oust the entire board of directors. An activist investor from San Francisco, Marcato said in a letter in June that that it was concerned about what it called ...
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Unsecured creditors of Payless Shoesource will collect €32.3 million from...
Unsecured creditors of Payless Shoesource will collect €32.3 million from Golden Gate Capital and Blum Capital to settle claims over dividends and fees of €400 million that the two private equity firms took from the bankrupt American discount shoe retail chain after its acquisition in 2012. In total, unsecured creditors ...
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The Brantano chain in the U.K. has closed its remaining...
The Brantano chain in the U.K. has closed its remaining 69 stores, resulting in the dismissal of about 900 employees. The shoe retail chain went into administration, a form of bankruptcy, on March 22. Alteri, the chain's private equity owners, has said the company suffered from the sharp fall in ...
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Deichmann is expanding its headquarters in Essen, adding a total...
Deichmann is expanding its headquarters in Essen, adding a total of 2,200 square meters on three floors. The new office, which will allow the German-based retail group to create 150 additional jobs, shall be finished in mid-2018 for a total investment of €6 million. Currently, 800 people are working for ...
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Vans has announced it has moved its headquarters from Cypress,...
Vans has announced it has moved its headquarters from Cypress, California to a new building in Costa Mesa, California, 13 miles away. The move was first announced in June 2015. The new building is environmentally-friendly and larger than the previous headquarters. The facility features a solar panel array on the ...
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The French Vivarte group has sold Kookaï, a big chain...
The French Vivarte group has sold Kookaï, a big chain of discount apparel shops, to an Australian company, Magi, that runs 39 Kookaï shops in its country. Vivarte's top management says it plans to examine any offers for two others of its assets – the André chain of shoe shops ...
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After an investment of €9 million, Paraboot has officially inaugurated...
After an investment of €9 million, Paraboot has officially inaugurated its new French factory at Saint-Jean-de-Moirans, covering 11,000 square meters, with a production capacity of 120,000 pairs of Goodyear and Norwegian Goodyear welted shoes per year. It has taken the place of two older factories in the same region, which ...
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Tati, the French cut-price shop, is to be sold to...
Tati, the French cut-price shop, is to be sold to Gifi. The verdict was handed down by the appeals court of Bobigny on June 26. Eram had announced earlier this year that it had decided to sell Agora Distribution, the loss-making unit which owned Tati and other brands including Fabio ...
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Giannico has chosen Roveda, the footwear manufacturer based in Parabiago,...
Giannico has chosen Roveda, the footwear manufacturer based in Parabiago, near Milan, to make its shoes. Roveda, owned by Chanel, will make Giannico's shoes starting with its spring/summer 2018 collection. The Giannico shoe brand was launched by Nicolò Beretta in 2013. Its first collection was presented at the fashion weeks ...
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The Dune Group has announced that its chief executive, John...
The Dune Group has announced that its chief executive, John Egan, will be standing down from the role at the end of August to take up a non-executive director position within Dune Holdings. Egan has been at the head of the group for the last nine years. James Cox, the ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has appointed Donald Kohler from Burberry to the...
Salvatore Ferragamo has appointed Donald Kohler from Burberry to the newly appointed position of chief retail officer and chief executive for its operations in the Americas. Kohler has spent almost three decades in the fashion industry after commencing at Macy's, the U.S. department store chain. Most recently, he served as ...
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Marcus Ewig, the managing director of Peter Kaiser, is leaving....
Marcus Ewig, the managing director of Peter Kaiser, is leaving. Ewig held the position at the Germany company, based in Pirmasens, for five years after joining from Porsche. A successor has not yet been announced. In other news, a few weeks ago Peter Kaiser hired a new manager, Jiani Wu, ...
