All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 26
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Italy’s exports grow faster than expected
Italy's shoe production declined by an estimated 1.2 percent during the first half of this year, according to the country's shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici. While the Italian households' consumption retreated by 1.6 percent during the period, the country's shoe exports went up by 4.0 percent in terms of value.Exports declined ...
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Deckers Brands has sued another brand, Pink Label, for knocking...
Deckers Brands has sued another brand, Pink Label, for knocking off its trade dress rights for its Bailey Button boot
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Argentina has issued new labeling requirements for footwear sold in...
Argentina has issued new labeling requirements for footwear sold in the country that update existing legislation. The new requirements will enter into effect on Feb. 6, 2019. Among these, all footwear must be labelled with the importer's or producer's name and tax identification, or alternatively with a duly registered commercial ...
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Skechers USA and three of its top executives including the...
Skechers USA and three of its top executives including the company's founder, Robert Greenberg, are the targets of a class action suit by shareholders who claim that they were not told the whole story about certain foreseeable logistic costs in China. They also allege that Greenberg sold a considerable number ...
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German shoe exports are on the rise
According to the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, HDS/L, German shoe exports went up by 8.9 percent to €3.5 billion in the first half of the year. In terms of volume, they grew by 6.6 percent to 158 million pairs and the average price per pair rose by 2.2 percent to ...
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Portugal invests heavily in its shoe industry
The Portuguese shoe industry decided in 2013 to invest at least €300 million between 2016 and 2020, or about 15 percent of its estimated added value, to improve its competitiveness at the international level under a strategic plan, called Community Support Framework Portugal 2020, that would be aided by the ...
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The Indian government has reduced its new nationwide Goods &...
The Indian government has reduced its new nationwide Goods & Services Tax (GST) on certain products in the fashion, textile and beauty sectors, including relatively inexpensive shoes. The GST on footwear sold at a price of under 1,000 rupees (€12.6m-$14.3m) will be lowered from 18 to 5 percent. More expensive ...
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Legero’s former boss joins the Josef Seibel group
Rudolph Hampl will join the Josef Seibel group as a new joint managing director in September. Hampl, who is now 53 years old was formerly working as managing director of Legero United. At Josef Seibel, Hampl will be responsible for product development, sales and marketing as well as the restructuring ...
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World shoe production resumes growth
After two flat years, footwear production resumed some growth last year, limited to a rate of 2 percent as compared to 2016, reaching an estimated level of 23.5 billion pairs. The figure is still far from the growth pace of 15.4 percent registered between 2010 and 2014, but it marks ...
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Iran is ready to ban imports of 1,339 products that...
Iran is ready to ban imports of 1,339 products that could instead be produced within the country, according to reports in Iran's Financial Tribune newspaper, quoting an official document. The list of banned imports includes footwear and leather products as well as home appliances, textile products, furniture, healthcare products and ...
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The Walking Co. Holdings has emerged from Chapter 11 after...
The Walking Co. Holdings has emerged from Chapter 11 after filing for bankruptcy protection in March. The retailer said that a new $10 million-plus of equity as well as support from an enhanced financing package from Wells Fargo Bank will provide it with sufficient capital to achieve its long-term growth ...
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Ukraine’s shoe manufacturers sell more at home and abroad
In 2017, Ukrainian factories released 24.5 million pairs of shoes, up by 5.2 per cent as compared to 2016, while imports into the country declined by 1.9 per cent to 48.8 million pairs. Ukraine's shoe manufacturers have been taking advantage of the devaluation of the national currency over the past ...
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Belarus' president, Alexander Lukashenko, has signed a decree prohibiting rawhide...
Belarus' president, Alexander Lukashenko, has signed a decree prohibiting rawhide exports from the country without special permission from the government's agencies. The decision has been taken in order to support the domestic shoes industry, and to help support exports of products with a higher added value. The government has invested ...
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Will Brazilian exports stop declining?
Brazil's shoe exports fell in the first half of the year by 6.7 percent in volume, from 59.36 million to 55.37 million pairs, and by 7.9 percent in value, from $528.7 million to $486.9 million. According to the Brazilian shoe manufacturers' association, Abicalçados, which presented these estimates, it is difficult ...
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Spanish footwear is stable in value, but decreases in volume
According to the latest data by the Spanish footwear industry association (Fice), shoe production in Spain totaled nearly 98 million pairs and €2.004 billion in value in 2017. These figures represent a 4 percent drop in volume and an increase of 0.6 percent in value as compared to 2016. The ...
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Uzbekistan sets sights on the leather shoe industry
The manufacture of leather shoes in Uzbekistan is set to double its production in the next two years from last year's level of 17 million pairs, according a development program recently adopted for the industry by the government of this former Soviet country, headed up by Shavkat Mirziyoyev since February ...
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The Brazilian Shoe Manufacturers Association (Abicalçados), the Brazilian Trade and...
The Brazilian Shoe Manufacturers Association (Abicalçados), the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brazil) and the members of the Brazilian Footwear program, maintained by those entities, have recently organized a meeting in which to select target markets for the next two years. The following markets have been chosen as priorities ...
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According to this year's Global Brand Counterfeiting Report, which was...
According to this year's Global Brand Counterfeiting Report, which was published in May, online sales of fake luxury goods accounted for 31 percent of total counterfeiting-related losses in 2017, which were estimated at $98 billion in the high-end consumer goods sector around the world. In its examination of the luxury ...
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Clarks starts manufacturing again in England
Clarks is inaugurating a modern, new shoe factory this month near his global headquarters in the Somerset region of England. Taking some inspiration from the systems used in the autommotive and aerospace industries, it will use robots to assist its initial staff of 80 workers.The plant will have a capacity ...
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Ecco filed a patent infringement complaint against Skechers in a...
Ecco filed a patent infringement complaint against Skechers in a U.S. court in Delaware on May 16, claiming infringement of four U.S. patents through its Go Golf Drive – Classic and Go Golf Drive – men's golf shoes. The Danish company is seeking an injunction, damages and fees.
