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Wolverine fined in Michigan
Wolverine Worldwide has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum ...
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Industry criticism of EC's removal of Cambodia's customs advantages
Matthias Händle, president of the foreign trade association of German retailers (AVE) and former president of the Hamm-Reno Group, has criticized the decision of the European Commission to remove Cambodia’s customs advantages. According to the AVE, the measure affects the country’s population primarily. Reacting to allegations of systematic human rights ...
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Blockchain to trace Italian projects
A project launched by the Italian industry ministry to set up a national scheme using blockchain technology to guarantee the traceability of Italian products, in order to protect brands and fight counterfeiting, has been dropped due to a lack of funds, according to Pambianconews. The ministry indicated that it does ...
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World's first Industry 4.0 smart footwear demonstrator
Thanks to an investment of €400,000 from the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (Ivace), Spain’s Center for Technology and Innovation (Inescop) has developed what it calls the world’s first Industry 4.0 smart demonstrator for the footwear industry. According to Inescop, the demonstrator showcases “enabling technologies” to “reduce time, costs, waste ...
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ArticleEurope has become the “epicenter” of the coronavirus pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Europe has now become the “epicenter” of the novel coronavirus pandemic as the virus spreads dramatically, prompting nations to totally or partially shut down their economies. On March 22, the Italian government issued a decree imposing the closure of all manufacturing ...
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Germany withstands the disease in better ways
Italy, the largest shoe manufacturing country on the continent, has suffered the highest number of deaths, followed by Spain, the second-largest producer. The official number of deaths related to the epidemic is now higher in Italy than in China, where it started last December. After Italy, Spain became the second ...
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Italy’s 2019 shoe production fell by 3.1% in volume
Italian footwear production fell by 3.1 percent to 178.6 million pairs in 2019 as the industry continued to suffer from a weak domestic market and a decline in export volumes, according to an estimate released by the Italian shoe industry association Assocalzaturifici. The value of the production rose by 1.3 ...
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Lower foreign and domestic sales by German shoe companies
The growth of the German footwear industry weakened in 2019, weighed down once again by lower sales abroad, according to an annual report by the Federal Association of the German Footwear and Leathergoods Industry (HDS/L) and presented at the Gallery Shoes fair in Düsseldorf earlier this month. In 2019, ...
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German shoe retailers post record growth in a difficult market
According to the German Federal Association of Shoe Retailers (BDSE), German shoe retailers recorded an increase of year-on-year 3 percent in their sales in 2019, expanding the total market to around €11.8 billion. The situation for German shoe retailers was positive last year except for a difficult winter, once ...
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Lower attendance at Micam
Attendance at Micam’s 89th edition, held on Feb. 16-19 in Milan, fell by 5 percent as compared to a year ago, largely due exceptional circumstances, according to the organizers, who had actually expected a higher rate of decline, considering especially the reports available at the time about the effect of ...
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The AAFA appeals to Trump on tariffs
While acknowledging problems in the trade relations between the U.S. and China, the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) stands opposed to the Trump administration's policy of imposing high tariffs on imports of footwear and other products from China. On Dec. 12, Rick Helfenbein, president and chief executive, addressed a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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), ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
