All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 20
-
News briefs
Deichmann has lost a lawsuit against a Spanish producer of...
Deichmann has lost a lawsuit against a Spanish producer of sneakers and sports shoes, Munich, regarding the use of a cross on its footwear. In a ruling issued in June, but only made public recently, the General Court of the European Union rejected an appeal made by the German company ...
-
News briefs
The Portuguese footwear association, Apiccaps, expects the country's shoe exports...
The Portuguese footwear association, Apiccaps, expects the country's shoe exports to fall by 5 percent in 2019, marking the second annual decline in a row after 10 years of growth. In an interview with the daily Jornal de Negócios, Apiccaps' communications director, Paulo Gonçalves, said that exports were affected by ...
-
News briefs
Siro Badon, president of the Italian footwear association, Assocalzaturifici, has...
Siro Badon, president of the Italian footwear association, Assocalzaturifici, has once again urged Italian politicians and institutions to intervene at the European level to introduce mandatory origin labeling in order to protect Italian industry. During the presentation of an action plan at the prime minister's office in Rome, Badon said ...
-
News briefs
The Association of Footwear and Related Industries of La Rioja...
The Association of Footwear and Related Industries of La Rioja (AICCOR) and the Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja (CTCR) have elected Laborio Sevilla to a four-year term as president. Sevilla is managing director of Nuevo Milenio, the family-owned footwear group behind the Victoria and Wamba brands. He belongs to ...
-
News briefs
Under the auspices of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC), nine...
Under the auspices of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC), nine European footwear technology centers have agreed to join forces to further footwear research and knowledge creation. The members of the network are CTC (France), CTCP (Portugal), CTCR (Spain), the footwear research center of Tomas Bata University (Czech Republic), Inescop (Spain), ...
-
Article
Record Russian online sales on Black Friday
Catching up with customers in other countries, Russian customers spent a record-breaking 22.3bn rubles (€321m-$357m) during last month's Black Friday promotion, 28 percent more than in the previous year, according to the Russian Association of Internet Trade Companies, but this estimate seems to have been far below the reality. Shoes, ...
-
Article
Positive vibes from Brazil
Positive signals on the domestic and international fronts have been coming from the Brazilian shoe industry as it gears up for the Couromoda fair taking place in São Paulo on Jan. 13-15, which will also integrate a women's ready-to-wear section.In the first 11 months of this year, Brazilian shoe exports ...
-
News briefs
In Cambodia, exports of footwear and travel goods rose by...
In Cambodia, exports of footwear and travel goods rose by 88 percent to $385 million in the first nine months, thanks to preferential duty-free entry obtained under the U.S.'s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), according to a local newspaper, the Phom Phen Post.
-
News briefs
The Italian footwear cluster of the Marche region continues to...
The Italian footwear cluster of the Marche region continues to suffer. Between Oct. 16 and Nov. 8, a Fermo-based court issued bankruptcy rulings for five footwear companies. In the first six months of the year, the region had already lost 95 companies and 1,164 jobs in the industry, according to ...
-
Article
Spanish shoe exports drop by 2%
Without putting out a press release, the Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, has informed us that the country's total exports of footwear declined by 2 percent to €1,364.3 million in the first six months of this year.Imanol Martinez, Fice's director of marketing and international business development, blamed Brexit, the trade ...
-
Article
Italian shoe exports rise by 7%
Italian shoe exports rose by 7.1 percent in value to €5.081 billion in the first six months of 2019, while falling by 0.9 percent in terms of volume to 106.9 million pairs, according to the Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici. The average price increased by 8.2 percent to €47.55 a ...
-
News briefs
According to the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Twinkle Toes,...
According to the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Twinkle Toes, Bobs, Daddy'$ Money and Hydee Hy-top collections produced by Skechers do not infringe Nike's trademark on the Converse Chuck Taylor midsole. The judge in the case, Charles E. Bullock, has further found that the midsole trademark had not acquired its ...
-
News briefs
Deichmann has lost a lawsuit against a Spanish producer of...
Deichmann has lost a lawsuit against a Spanish producer of sneakers and sports shoes, Munich, regarding the use of a cross on its footwear. In a ruling issued in June, but only made public recently, the General Court of the European Union rejected an appeal made by the German company ...
-
News briefs
Assocalzaturifici has announced the appointment of Elisa Lanciotti as the...
Assocalzaturifici has announced the appointment of Elisa Lanciotti as the new chair of Assocalzaturifici Gruppo Giovani, the young entrepreneurs' section of the Italian trade organization. Lanciotti, who is taking over the role from Carlotta Bachini, has been elected for the 2019-2023 period. Lanciotti, 32, is in charge of international sales ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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.
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
Short stops
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
