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Hewlett Packard has stepped into the footwear market with FitStation,...
Hewlett Packard has stepped into the footwear market with FitStation, a system for 3D foot-scanning, dynamic gait analysis and personalized shoe production. Powered by HP hardware and software, FitStation captures 500 measurements per second to create a one-of-a-kind digital profile of each foot. Hewlett Packard has worked with a group ...
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Ukraine has obtained new trade preferences from the European Union...
Ukraine has obtained new trade preferences from the European Union that increase the quantity of products the country can export to the EU free of duties, including footwear. The trade measure, which came into force on Oct. 1, will offer several Ukrainian agricultural and industrial goods better access to the ...
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Gianvito Rossi is launching its first men's collection and is...
Gianvito Rossi is launching its first men's collection and is opening two new men's boutiques to house the new line. The shoes of the new men's 2017 collection are said to be made from specifically naturally-tanned leathers. The new men's boutiques of the Italian luxury shoe designer will open at ...
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Fabletics is launching its first shoe collection. The retailer will...
Fabletics is launching its first shoe collection. The retailer will offer 11 styles of athletic and lifestyle shoes including training shoes, booties, slip ons, high tops and lifestyle sneakers. The footwear capsule collection will be exclusively available to members on Fabletics' e-commerce site in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, ...
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Diadora has started a collaboration with Sympatex for a line...
Diadora has started a collaboration with Sympatex for a line of waterproof work boots
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Starting in Poland, partners in a program called “Shoes Made...
Starting in Poland, partners in a program called “Shoes Made in EU: The European Shoemaker,” are launching an online course promoted by the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) and funded by the European Commission. Shoemakers and young students are encouraged to register for free to access the material ...
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Fly London is launching a line of boots designed in...
Fly London is launching a line of boots designed in partnership with a Spanish artist, Cristina Rodrigues
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Vietnam and Bangladesh perform better than India
India's exports of footwear, leather and leathergoods declined by 3.23 percent in the last financial year, falling for the second consecutive year. They amounted to $5.66 billion for the year from April 2016 to March 2017 as compared to $5.85 billion in the previous year. The drop follows a fall ...
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Brussels has continued its crackdown on tax avoidance by big...
Brussels has continued its crackdown on tax avoidance by big multinationals by ordering Amazon to repay €250 million in illegal state aid to Luxembourg. The penalty issued earlier this month, follows on from the record €13 billion demanded from Apple for Irish back-taxes last year, in a case that is ...
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Spanish shoe production is stable, but the average value goes up
Figures from the Spanish shoe industry association, Fice, show that the country's shoe production remained largely stable in 2016 as compared to 2015. It dropped only slightly by 0.7 percent to a total volume of 102 million pairs.In terms of value, Spain's shoe production increased by 2.3 percent to a ...
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Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of...
Cotance (Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community) is urging the European Commission to implement specific regulations on leather authenticity labelling within the EU market. The topic of “leather authenticity” was part of the agenda of Cotance's Autumn Council on Oct. 6. According to the ...
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Will anti-dumping duties be restored in Europe?
The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have reached a compromise agreement on the methodology that should be used for the calculation of dumping margins and other market distortions that is expected to be more transparent than the previous one. Declining to consider China as a market economy, despite ...
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Digel, a big German brand of tailored menswear with annual...
Digel, a big German brand of tailored menswear with annual sales of more than €100 million and a presence in 45 countries, has launched its own line of footwear, made primarily in India and China. Shown for the first time at theMicam in Milan last month, it will be offered ...
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A.F. Vandevorst has announced that it will discontinue its ready-to-wear...
A.F. Vandevorst has announced that it will discontinue its ready-to-wear line to concentrate on shoes. The founders and designers of the 20-year-old Belgian fashion label, An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx, said they will now focus on more extensive footwear collections, with a strong focus on craftsmanship, and on apparel capsule ...
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Joya has launched its first limited edition of 365 pairs...
Joya has launched its first limited edition of 365 pairs of women's shoes and 365 pairs of men's shoes, being sold by only ten dealers, to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The Swiss company is currently sold at 1,200 stores, with dealers in Russia, Greece and Kuwait joining the distribution network ...
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Colombia has suspended a 35 percent tariff surcharge on shoe...
Colombia has suspended a 35 percent tariff surcharge on shoe imports from the Mercosur region. Columbia is currently an associated country of the trade bloc. The Brazilian Footwear Manufacturers Association (Abicalçados) welcomed the decision by Colombia's Ministry of Commerce to end the Colombian Decree 1744. Brazil exported to Colombia around ...
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Kangaroos rapidly sold out a limited edition of 252 pairs...
Kangaroos rapidly sold out a limited edition of 252 pairs of shoes based on a model developed with Sapato, a well-known sneaker store in Kassel, Germany
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The Italian shoe industry’s recovery picked up in Q2
The Italian footwear industry's revenues rose by an estimated 2.9 percent in the first half of this year while its production grew by 0.9 percent. The data marked a significant improvement compared with the whole of 2016, when production rose by only 0.3 percent in value and dropped by 2.0 ...
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Cambodia's footwear and garment workers have won an 11 percent...
Cambodia's footwear and garment workers have won an 11 percent increase in monthly wages to top off an 180 percent increase in pay over six years. Trade union representatives, government officials and footwear and garment workers recently agreed that from the start of 2018, the minimum salary will rise from ...
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Sterling Footwear in the U.S. has been fined $1.57 million...
Sterling Footwear in the U.S. has been fined $1.57 million in unpaid duties plus interest for “grossly negligent” product misclassification. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled in favour of the U.S. government, finding that the shoe importer incorrectly classified 337 of 363 entries of footwear between 2007 and 2009. ...
