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Sports shoes lift German shoe exports
The latest federal trade statistics show a huge 25.1 percent increase in Germany's shoe exports to €2.79 billion for the first five months of this year as compared to the same period a year ago, when they went up by 11 percent. However, industry officials indicated that the boom in ...
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Portuguese exports go up in value and volume
Shoe exports from Portugal rose by 6.4 percent in value and 7.0 percent in volume during the first half of 2017, going up to a level of 43 million pairs worth €960 million for the period. They are now covering 152 countries around the world.If the positive trend is confirmed ...
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German retailers are embracing omni-channel
Pushed by the competition from pure players in the online space like Amazon and Zalando and by the new digital services offered by the two biggest cooperatives of independent shoes retailers, ANWR and Sabu, multi-channel retailers have gained a share of 25 percent in the German online market for shoes, ...
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Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement...
Dr. Martens is offering a full refund or a replacement for a certain number of products from its Vegan range, made at a factory in Vietnam, that were sold until recently in North America as well as in some European countries, China, Australia and New Zealand. The products in question ...
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Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global...
Joesley Batista, the wealthy Brazilian tycoon who built a global meat and leather empire around JBS, has been put in jail in Brasilia on charges of graft and other serious crimes. A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended the immunity that had been granted to the businessman in a plea bargain ...
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Bangladesh has its first shoe show and big ambitions
The shoe and leathergoods industry of Bangladesh is organizing the country's first footwear trade show in November while the Bangladeshi government is considering the launch of a major program to promote the growth of the sector, which has been scoring encouraging advances on the export front in recent years.Bangladesh's footwear ...
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Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth...
Abicalçados, the Brazilian footwear industry association, has conducted an in-depth study on the footwear market in Russia, in collaboration with Apex, Brazil's export promotions agency. Abicalçados values the Russian footwear market at $10 billion in 2016, and 75 percent of the shoes sold in the country are imported from abroad. ...
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A district court judge in Oregon has let a lawsuit...
A district court judge in Oregon has let a lawsuit by Adidas against Skechers over its Stan Smith shoe go to trial, denying a request by Skechers to overrule the claims. He has accepted most of the claims, though not all of them. In the case, Adidas sued Skechers in ...
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Vietnam's National Wage Council has decided to raise the minimum...
Vietnam's National Wage Council has decided to raise the minimum wage in the country by 6.5 percent in 2018, representing the smallest increase in 11 years. It will grow to the equivalent of between US$121 and US$175 depending on the region. Vietnam's Labor Confederation had requested an increase of 13.3 ...
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Cleto Sagripanti was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term...
Cleto Sagripanti was unanimously re-elected to a second two-year term as president of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC) at its general assembly in Venice on June 29. The Italian entrepreneur, who previously headed up the Italian shoe industry association, Assocalzaturifici, wants to continue to promote the digitalization ...
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Politecnico Calzaturiero in Padua, Italy, has recently hosted a group...
Politecnico Calzaturiero in Padua, Italy, has recently hosted a group of 14 designers and footwear technicians from five European countries for a two-week pilot training in luxury footwear manufacturing. The program was made possible by the High End Shoe (HES) project, funded by EU's Erasmus+. Participants from Italy, France, Spain, ...
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Luxury companies can block online sales. This is emerging in...
Luxury companies can block online sales. This is emerging in the unfolding of the dispute between the German unit of Coty, the U.S. maker of beauty products, and Parfümerie Akzente, Coty's distributing partner in Germany, which sells Coty's products on e-commerce sites including Amazon against Coty's wishes. Coty had asked ...
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Assomac, the Italian association of manufacturers of footwear, leather goods...
Assomac, the Italian association of manufacturers of footwear, leather goods and tanning technologies, has opened the first Italian-Vietnamese Technology Center in Vietnam. The primary objective of the center is to further develop the local footwear industry. Meanwhile, the center features a complete line of Italian machinery and equipment for footwear ...
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The Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), in partnership...
The Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), in partnership with Elevate Global, has developed a new factory wage map to help footwear firms track in real time Chinese wage rates by city and province. The tool is meant to help footwear companies get better insights on matters related to ...
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Ivanka Trump must testify in a lawsuit over knock-off shoes...
Ivanka Trump must testify in a lawsuit over knock-off shoes against her apparel company. A New York District, Judge Katherine Forrest, rejected the assertion that Trump should be exempt because of the demands on her time as a senior White House official advising her father, U.S. President Donald Trump. Aquazzurra, ...
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Ugg Australia's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., is suing Gap...
Ugg Australia's parent company, Deckers Outdoor Corp., is suing Gap for alleged trade dress and patent infringement. According to the lawsuit, which was filed by Deckers in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on July 5, Gap is sued for unfair competition, trade dress infringement and ...
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Dieter Spiess, president of the Swiss shoe retailers association (SSV),...
Dieter Spiess, president of the Swiss shoe retailers association (SSV), resigned from his office after 33 years at the end of June. Lukas Kindlimann, former vice president of the SSV, will replace him. Sabine Völlmin will remain as managing director. Like Spiess, Kindlimann is a shoe retailer. He runs Schulthess, ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and shoe components industry association, has...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and shoe components industry association, has elected Fortunato Federico as honorary president. The Portuguese entrepreneur, who controls Fly London and other assets through his holding company, Kyaya, had been the president of Apiccaps for 18 years. He was succeeded in the post by a new president, ...
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Ed Rosenfeld, the chairman and chief executive of Steve Madden,...
Ed Rosenfeld, the chairman and chief executive of Steve Madden, has been elected chairman of Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), the main shoe industry association in the U.S., as part of an executive reshuffle. Mike Jeppesen, president of the Global Operations Group and the Wolverine Heritage Group at Wolverine ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, voted for...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, voted for a new management at its annual general meeting that was held on May 31 in Düsseldorf. Carl-August Seibel, chief executive of Josef Seibel, was elected as the new chairman, replacing Ralph Rieker, CEO of the Ricosta shoe company, who held ...
