Latest News Briefs – Page 245
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Peter Kaiser is planning to open new mono-label stores later...
Peter Kaiser is planning to open new mono-label stores later this year, particularly in Canada, through the same retailer who has done good business with another Peter Kaiser store in Toronto. This year has already seen the opening of Peter Kaiser stores in the Dutch city of Utrecht in April ...
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Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin...
Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin in March, and it will remain open until the end of September. Toms EMEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam, does not plan to open any other mono-brand stores in Germany. It currently sells its products to roughly 750 doors in the ...
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All of Ara's shoe stores are being redesigned as part...
All of Ara's shoe stores are being redesigned as part of a relaunch of the German brand. It has a new logo and its product range is divided in two different segments for fashion and function. The new store concept is in line with Ara's product segmentation. The Ara stores ...
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Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store,...
Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store, called Fourty Tree, in Hauenstein on July 22. Covering 200 square meters, the store will feature apparel and shoes of brands such as Adidas, Puma, Nike, Reebok and Diadora. Carl-August Seibel is the chief executive of the Josef Seibel Group, ...
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Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently...
Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently opened a new store in Zurich based on a hybrid physical and internet model. Through an information point, clients can get access to an app in the store and take a look at the complete product range. The customer can ...
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The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six...
The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six Vögele shoe stores in Austria. Schuh & Schuh PKTS, the Austrian company formerly known as Vögele Shoes, filed for insolvency at the beginning of this year. An out-of-court restructuring process was not successful and the group did not find an ...
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Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue...
Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue that took over the German Kaufhof chain, has opened the first of a series of European Saks Off department stores in Düsseldorf. Covering 3,500 square meters on four floors, it offers closeouts by more than 700 brands of apparel, footwear, ...
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Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier...
Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier this month. Located in the famous Berlin shopping avenue, the Ku'damm, the shop occupies 70 square meters of retail space. There are now 30 Havaianas stores throughout Europe, as well as 40 concessions and 80 franchise shops.
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Eram will be selling its products online in China via...
Eram will be selling its products online in China via the Boutique France operated by the French Post Office on the Tmall internet platform. Eram is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. Tmall is the marketplace for foreign companies of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. Tmall is also a doorway ...
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Sabu Schuh-Verbund, the German cooperative of 102 independent shoe retailers...
Sabu Schuh-Verbund, the German cooperative of 102 independent shoe retailers reported a three percent fall in turnover for 2016 at its annual general meeting in Hamburg in June. More detailed figures show that the revenues of Sabu Schuh und Marketing GmbH, which is equally owned by the Sabu Schuh-Verbund and ...
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Bernard Arnault, the president and chief executive of Lvmh, is...
Bernard Arnault, the president and chief executive of Lvmh, is again the wealthiest person in France. Last year, the top spot was occupied by Liliane Bettencourt, one of the main shareholders of L'Oréal, but according to the latest ranking by Challenges, a French business magazine, Arnault is now back on ...
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A recent survey in the U.K. has revealed that the...
A recent survey in the U.K. has revealed that the average British man owns as many shoes as British women do, but British men are now spending more on shoes than women. The poll has been conducted by Spartoo, the fashion e-tailer, among 2,000 adults. British men own 19 pairs ...
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After several years of drastic sales declines, the Russian shoe...
After several years of drastic sales declines, the Russian shoe market appears to have rebounded. In its annual report, a leading Russian market research institute, Fashion Consulting Group, predicts an increase of between 5 percent and 10 percent for the current year, both in rubles and in dollars. For 2016, ...
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Sales grew by 2.2 percent in German shoe shops during...
Sales grew by 2.2 percent in German shoe shops during the first six months of this year, according to the European Clearing Center, which collected the data of 4,724 points of sale in the country. Comparatively, their sales had fallen by 3.4 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2016.
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The high-end footwear manufacturing cluster near Venice is scoring better...
The high-end footwear manufacturing cluster near Venice is scoring better than the rest of Italy, judging from the figures announced by Acrib, the association grouping shoe manufacturers located along the Brenta River. Their turnover grew last year by 6.2 percent, rising for the first time above the €2 billion threshold. ...
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Italy remained last year the world's largest exporter of leather...
Italy remained last year the world's largest exporter of leather with a total value of about €3.8 billion last year, according to the country's tanners' association, Unic. Exports of leather for shoes and clothing declined by 2 percent. A bigger decline of 7 percent was registered for leather used in ...
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Brazilian footwear exports increased by 1.1 percent in volume between...
Brazilian footwear exports increased by 1.1 percent in volume between January and May as compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Brazilian Shoe Manufacturers Association. In value terms (in U.S. dollars), Brazilian footwear exports jumped by 20.1 percent to $441 million. The devaluation of the ...
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Ugg Australia's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., is suing Gap...
Ugg Australia's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., is suing Gap for alleged trade dress and patent infringement. According to the lawsuit, which was filed by Deckers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on July 5, Gap is sued for unfair competition, trade dress infringement and ...
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Ivanka Trump must testify in a lawsuit over knock-off shoes...
Ivanka Trump must testify in a lawsuit over knock-off shoes against her apparel company. A New York District, Judge Katherine Forrest, rejected the assertion that Trump should be exempt because of the demands on her time as a senior White House official advising her father, U.S. President Donald Trump. Aquazzurra, ...
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Dieter Spiess, president of the Swiss shoe retailers association (SSV),...
Dieter Spiess, president of the Swiss shoe retailers association (SSV), resigned from his office after 33 years at the end of June. Lukas Kindlimann, former vice president of the SSV, will replace him. Sabine Völlmin will remain as managing director. Like Spiess, Kindlimann is a shoe retailer. He runs Schulthess, ...
