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JD Sports is the target of a cyber attack
JD Sports Fashion said that it has been the target of a cyber incident which resulted in the unauthorized access to a system that contained customer data relating to some online orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?, Millets, Blacks, ...
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Julian Hermsdorf takes the helm of Living Kitzbühel, replacing Dieter Klingenberg
Footwear professional, designer and entrepreneur Julian Hermsdorf joined the Austrian slipper brand Living Kitzbühel as managing director, at the beginning of the year. Hermsdorf comes from the Munich-based sneaker label Monaco Ducks, which he founded with Carl Warkentin in 2014 and where he is now a member of the ...
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Sabato De Sarno becomes Gucci’s creative director
Sabato De Sarno has been appointed Gucci’s creative director. He will present his debut runway collection at Milan Women’s Fashion Week in September 2023, announced Kering, the parent company of the Italian fashion house. In his new role, De Sarno will lead the house’s design studio reporting to Marco Bizzarri, ...
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Nov.ita to distribute Fubuki in Italy
Nov.ita has announced that it will distribute the Japanese winter boots brand Fubuki in Italy. Based in Turin, Nov.ita is already the Italian distributor for Camelbak and Buff, among other brands. Fubuki was founded in 2019 in Niseko, Japan, by Kalle Norman and Christofer Ljunggren. The brand is currently sold ...
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Foot Locker to wind down Sidestep
Nine-and-a-half years after acquiring the sports fashion footwear chain as part of its deal for the Recklinghausen, Germany-based Runners Point Group, Foot Locker has decided to shutter Sidestep’s operation that currently consists of several dozen stores across Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In February 2019, Foot Locker operated 80 ...
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Aeffe’s full-year footwear, leather goods sales up 17%
Aeffe, the Italian fashion house that owns the footwear brand Pollini, saw its 2022 sales rise by 8.4 percent to €352 million. At constant currency rates, the top line grew by 7.7 percent. Sales of the footwear and leathergoods business reached €163.6 million, up by 16.9 percent both on a ...
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Russian cut spending in footwear
A vast majority of Russians cut spending on clothes and shoes in the second half of 2022, according to a survey conducted by the local analytical agency A2: Research. The bulk of those surveyed, about 44 percent, reduced their spending by 20 to 30 percent compared to the previous year. ...
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Indonesia and EU aim to reach a free trade deal in 2023
The European Union and Indonesia aim to conclude a free trade agreement by the end of 2023 despite numerous trade disputes, said Vincent Piket, the EU’s ambassador in Jakarta. Piket told journalists that European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen and the Indonesian President Joko Widodo had decided in the ...
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News briefsTHG appoints a new CFO
On Jan. 24, THG appointed Damian Sanders as chief financial officer (CFO) with immediate effect. Sanders takes over as CFO from John Gallemore, who has been appointed chief operating officer (COO). Sanders has been a member of the board of the British online retailer for the past two years. He ...
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German consumer confidence continues to improve
In February, German consumer confidence is expected to rise by 3.7 points from January to -33.9 points, according to a preliminary estimate by the research institute GfK. “With the fourth increase in a row, the positive trend in consumer sentiment is consolidating. Even though the level is still very low, ...
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Shloop to open a production site in Mississippi
Shloop, a startup footwear manufacturer, is opening a manufacturing facility in Meridian, in the U.S. state of Mississipi. The $9 million investment is due to create 56 jobs. The footwear factory is located in a 32,000 square foot building dating back to the 1930s and started as a bakery. The ...
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Cambodia’s footwear exports up nearly 25% in 2022
Cambodia’s footwear exports rose by 24.8 percent in 2022 to $1.74 billion, according to the General Department of Customs and Excise. The country’s overall exports of garment, footwear and travel goods products totalled $12.63 billion in 2022, up by 14.9 percent year-over-year. Exports for garments grew by 12.7 percent to ...
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Kazakhstan could face a sharp increase in footwear prices
New labelling rules are expected to lift the retail prices of shoes on the Kazakh market by 30 percent in 2023, a group of importers told the local publication Caravan. Kazakhstan introduced mandatory digital labelling of footwear on Nov. 1, 2021, but let retailers sell unlabeled shoes during a transition ...
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Ecuador, Mexico free trade talks at ‘dead end’
Talks to reach a free trade agreement between Ecuador and Mexico are at a “dead end”, according to the Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso. Lasso said that the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had informed him that Mexican banana and shrimp producers are opposing a free trade deal. Ecuador had ...
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Tod’s strengthens production footprint with new Tuscan factory
Tod’s is moving forward with the construction of a new factory in the municipality of Pontassieve, which is located in an important district for the production of leather goods near Florence in Italy’s Tuscany region. The Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore estimates Tod’s will invest about €15 million ...
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Anna und Paul founder and managing director Sonja Rendez dies at 57
Sonja Rendez, the founder and long-time managing director of the Cologne-based children’s shoe company Anna und Paul GmbH, died on Dec. 14, 2022 at the age of 57. The fashion designer had been battling cancer. Rendez founded the company for baby crawling and walking shoes in 2001 and served ...
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Candice Cooper founder Christoph Siegel dead at 68
Christoph Siegel, the founder of the Candice Cooper footwear brand, has died in Essen at the age of 68. The Bavarian-born shoe specialist started his career in the footwear industry more than 45 years ago as a sales representative with well-known brands such as Charles Jourdan. In 2007, ...
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New DACH sales manager for Superga and Sebago
Superga and Sebago get a new sales manager for German-speaking markets. CMH Consulting, Management and Handel, a company based in Kufstein, Austria, which holds the license for the two brands, has hired footwear veteran Pierre Lefebvre effective from Jan. 1, 2023. The 59-year-old is currently setting up a new ...
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French footwear sales up 7.3% in December
In December, French footwear retail sales increased by a seasonally and working day adjusted 7.3 percent month on month, according to the Bank of France. In November, sales of footwear grew by 3.3 percent. Overall, retail sale volumes in France inched up a seasonally and working day adjusted 0.5 percent ...
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U.K. retail sales unexpectedly fell in December
In December, retail sales in the U.K. fell by 1.0 percent month-on-month in volume after dropping by 0.5 percent in November, revised from an earlier reading of a 0.4 percent decline, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics that noted that sales volumes were 1.7 percent lower ...
