All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 20
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Spanish shoe exports drop by 2%
Without putting out a press release, the Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, has informed us that the country's total exports of footwear declined by 2 percent to €1,364.3 million in the first six months of this year.Imanol Martinez, Fice's director of marketing and international business development, blamed Brexit, the trade ...
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Skechers says it has won a protracted trademark dispute with...
Skechers says it has won a protracted trademark dispute with Converse. An International Trade Commission judge found that Skechers' Twinkle Toes and its BOBS designs did not violate the trademark rights of Converse's Chuck Taylor midsole. According to Skechers, the judge also ruled that Converse's trademark had not acquired any ...
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Micam will highlight contract manufacturing
Assocalzaturifici, the powerful Italian shoe industry association, is studying the project of a match-making process for future editions of its Micam trade show, to foster better connections between Italian contract manufacturers and potential clients from all over the world. As it was last month, the fair will also continue as ...
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The Cambodian workers of the textile and footwear sectors will...
The Cambodian workers of the textile and footwear sectors will see the minimum wage rise to $190 per month in 2020, representing an increase of 4.4 percent
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British shoemakers lose their footing with Brexit
British shoemakers, like much of the country's economy, are largely unsettled by the uncertainty created by the ongoing saga of the U.K.'s planned departure from the European Union, known as Brexit.A soap opera that witnessed a new twist on Saturday, when the British parliament voted an amendment that could postpone ...
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Muhammad Younas of Starlet has been elected as the new...
Muhammad Younas of Starlet has been elected as the new chairman of the Pakistan Footwear Manufacturers Association (PEMA) until September of next year, replacing Hassan Javed. His election comes at a time when Pakistan's exports are growing briskly. More than 60 percent of the exports are due to Servis, a ...
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In mid-September, with the unanimous approval of both of their...
In mid-September, with the unanimous approval of both of their respective memberships, the U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association (USHSLA) and Leather Industries of America (LIA) merged at a joint annual meeting in Chicago. As of Jan. 1, 2020, they will be known as the Leather and Hide Council of ...
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The minimum monthly wage in Cambodia's footwear and apparel industry...
The minimum monthly wage in Cambodia's footwear and apparel industry will be raised by 4.4% to US$190 next January, and the raise will be accompanied by new fringe benefits for transportation and regular attendance
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Gucci has lost the legal battle against Silvano Lattanzi over...
Gucci has lost the legal battle against Silvano Lattanzi over the horsebit trademark that it has long been using on its leather goods. In 2011, Italy's financial authority confiscated a number of horsebit-bearing loafers that were being sold by a retailer in Tuscany under the Silvano Lattanzi brand name. In ...
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The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has addressed a...
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has addressed a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to request that Amazon's marketplaces for France and India be added to an annual list of “Notorious Markets” that abet counterfeiting and piracy. Last year, the trade group made the same request regarding ...
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After a 40-year stint, Amilcare Baccini has stepped down as...
After a 40-year stint, Amilcare Baccini has stepped down as managing director of Assomac, Italy's association of footwear and tanning-machinery manufacturers. His departure was announced in June, after the general meeting. Baccini helped modify the Simac-Tanning Tech trade show after the concomitant Lineapelle show for leather moved from Bologna to ...
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Vietnamese footwear exports rose by 13.5 percent to $13.3 billion...
Vietnamese footwear exports rose by 13.5 percent to $13.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, according to the local leather, footwear and handbags manufacturers' association. During the whole of 2018, the country exported $16.3 billion worth of footwear, up by 11.0 percent from the previous year.
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From Nov. 1, 46-year-old Lene Tanggaard will be the new...
From Nov. 1, 46-year-old Lene Tanggaard will be the new principal of the Kolding School of Design, which hosts Denmark's leading footwear department. The diligent and extroverted researcher from Aalborg University has worked in educational psychology and creativity innovation and is highly regarded among companies, organizations and authorities. She takes ...
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Uzbekistan targets full self-sufficiency in footwear
Uzbekistan is meeting almost 100 percent of the domestic demand for men's shoes and 70 percent of the domestic demand for women's shoes, according to recent comments by Dilobar Zufarovu, a spokesperson for the national shoe industry association. Moreover, the national government has indicated its support for new protectionist measures. ...
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Germany exports more outsourced shoes, imports less from EU
The revenues from the sales of footwear made in Germany, a large portion of which consists of safety and sports shoes, increased by 2.8 percent in the first six months of 2019 to €1.60 billion. As last year, they were essentially driven by the domestic market, where sales by manufacturers ...
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Russia may drop preferential taxes for shoe retailers
All the shoe stores in Russia must be transferred to the common tax regime under a draft bill that has recently passed first reading in the Russian Parliament. They would not be eligible any longer to just pay a single small tax of 15 percent on their profits or to ...
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Rick Helfenbein is resigning as president and chief executive of...
Rick Helfenbein is resigning as president and chief executive of the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) on Dec. 31. Stephen Lamar, the association's executive vice president, will replace him the following day. Helfenbein has spent 14 years at the AAFA, serving for two years as chairman and for four years ...
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German shoe retailers recover amid online growth
German shoe retailers' sales grew by 2.5 percent in the first half of this year, recovering from the decline last year, which was due to unfavorable weather, according to the Federal Association of Shoe Retailers, BDSE.The weather played a role again in the growth, according to BDSE's president, Brigitte Wischnewski, ...
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The Italian government is expected to grant €20 million to...
The Italian government is expected to grant €20 million to €30 million in aid to financially distressed shoe companies in the areas of Fermo and Macerata, in the Marche region, naming it a “complex crisis area.” Regional authorities and other various funds are expected to participate in the program. Hit ...
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Italian shoe output drops by 2.3%
The rate of decline is softening. Italy's shoe production fell by 2.3 percent in volume in the first half of 2019, compared with a 3.3 percent decline for the whole of 2018, when the output totaled 184.3 million pairs. The trend is expected to remain roughly the same for the ...
