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Boohoo agrees preliminary terms of U.S. class action lawsuit
The British fast-fashion retailer Boohoo has agreed to terms of a preliminary settlement with parties that brought a U.S. class action claim alleging its promotions in California misled shoppers. The company said the preliminary settlement will be covered in full by its existing claims provisions, which stood at £19.1 million ...
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U.K. retailers call for human rights law to protect supply factory workers
More than 35 retailers, manufacturers and investors including Primark and Asos have demanded the British government make human rights and environmental checks on their global supply chains mandatory by law. In a letter, the group said the Covid-19 crisis highlighted the “fragility of global supply chains” and the vulnerabilities faced ...
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ArticleEurope, U.S. reach a deal defusing their trade dispute
The U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Austria and the U.S. have reached an agreement under which the European countries will drop their national digital services taxes as they prepare to implement a new global corporate tax defined through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A two-year transition period for ...
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ArticleSpanish shoemakers expect to emerge from Covid-19 crisis by 2022
The Spanish footwear industry suffered severely from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 but has since enjoyed a 35 percent rebound in production during the first half of 2021. In an interview with Shoe Intelligence, Imanol Martínez, the marketing & international business development director of the Spanish footwear ...
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Adidas loses appeal about H&M’s two stripes
Ending a trademark dispute that began in 1997, the Dutch Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Adidas against a lower court’s ruling that a two-stripe logo used by Hennes & Mauritz did not infringe on its iconic Three Stripes. A key factor in H&M’s success was a market research ...
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ArticleILO adopts code of practice for shoe and apparel manufacturing
To provide a practical basis for employers, workers and governments to work together to advance an occupational safety and health (OSH) prevention culture in the textile, clothing, leather and footwear manufacturing sector, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has worked out its first code of practice on safety and health for ...
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Court sets an Oct. 28 deadline to bid for Sequential’s brands
The auction being supervised by U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for the bankrupt Sequential Brands Group is set to start next month. Interested parties have been given a deadline of Oct. 28 to submit bids for any of its assets to be added to those already filed ...
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New Balance faces new complaint over its made in USA label
A consumer advocacy organization, truthinadvertising.org, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking it to investigate the validity of New Balance’s “made in USA” label, which it uses in at least a dozen models of footwear. According to the complaint, NB claims “a domestic value of ...
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Covid-vaccinated Europeans to enter France freely from June 9
Europeans vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to enter France without a PCR test from June 9, said the Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. From June 9 “vaccinated Europeans can come to France without a PCR test,” he said in an interview with the television CNEWS.
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Japan prolongs state of emergency to June 20
The Japanese government has extended a state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas of the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic to June 20, just over a month before the planned start of the Toyko Olympics on July 23. The restrictive measures currently in place, which are less rigid ...
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ArticleBlockchain technology: hype or helpful?
Blockchain technology (BT) is generally associated with cryptocurrencies, but it is rapidly being adopted in other sectors to streamline bureaucracy and foster transparency. In February 2019, the Italian industry ministry announced plans to set up, jointly with the computer giant IBM, a national scheme using BT to guarantee the traceability ...
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Russia postpones to June 15 deadline to sell unlabeled shoes
The Russian government has once again pushed back the deadline for retailers to sell stocks of unlabeled footwear. The new date is June 15. Labeling shoes with special electronic tags became mandatory in Russia on June 1, 2020. As of April this year, 82,000 companies have registered with the new ...
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ArticleWorld Footwear helps shoemakers to deal with Brexit
The Portuguese shoe industry association, Apiccaps, has posted a useful guide on the website of World Footwear with practical checklists for shoe exporters and importers on how to deal with the new trade agreement between the U.K. and the European Union. It also organized a few days ago an interesting ...
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European Parliament to vote on Brexit deal April 27
On April 27, the European Parliament will vote on the post-Brexit trade deal agreed between the EU and the U.K., its spokesman, Jaume Duch, said on Twitter. EU lawmakers are expected to clear the deal, which faces an end-April deadline for approval and was backed last week by parliamentary committees. ...
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Bleyer files for insolvency
Bleyer, a German producer of sports shoes for special activities, has filed for temporary insolvency because of cash problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The company, which employs 21 people, and its web store will continue to operate like before, hoping that the current restrictions on sports and dance events ...
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Alibaba settles with Chinese anti-trust authorities
The Alibaba Group has agreed to make it easier for merchants to do business with it, without preventing them from using other platforms, as part of a series of ”comprehensive rectifications” demanded by Chinese anti-trust regulators, which charged it of abusing its dominant market position. The Chinese internet company will ...
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U.S. patent office finds Timberland’s iconic boot design too generic
The U.S. Patent Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denied a bid by VF Corp. to register the design of Timberland’s iconic Yellow Boot, concluding that it lacks sufficient acquired distinctiveness. The board noted that there was no evidence that competitors were trying to intentionally copy the boot’s trade dress, ...
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Goldstar chalks up legal victories over Birkenstock
The Silvagni family that owns the Goldstar brand has sent its customers and retailers a letter to inform them of a string of European court sentences that have seen it come out ahead in a long-standing legal battle with Birkenstock, which is being taken over by companies linked to the ...
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News briefsThe French antitrust clears Beaumanoir’s purchase of La Halle stores
The French antitrust agency, Autorité de la Concurrence, has authorized without conditions the purchase of 366 stores of the apparel and footwear chain La Halle by Beaumanoir. The agency noted that some of the stores will retain the La Halle name while others will be rebranded as Beaumanoir. It added ...
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Mario Valentino wins trademark infringement case against Farfetch
Mario Valentino, an Italian producer of shoes, handbags and leather goods, has won a case in the Milan court against the e-retailer Farfetch UK and Modes, a boutique owner affiliated with Farfetch, for the improper use of the brand name Valentino. According to the terms of a co-existence agreement between ...
