All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 38
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Cleto Sagripanti, the young president of the Italian shoe industry...
Cleto Sagripanti, the young president of the Italian shoe industry association (Assocalzaturifi), is apparently the only candidate at the moment to take the place of Jean-Pierre Renaudin as president of the European Confederation of the Shoe Industry (CEC). Renaudin has also decided to step down as president of the French ...
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Half of the shoe companies operating in Italy feel that...
Half of the shoe companies operating in Italy feel that they have completed their transformation, while those that still have to finish their reorganization has declined to 33 percent of the total. This is one of the trends listed in the latest Shoe Report presented to the Italian Parliament by ...
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The Ecuadorian government has increased the tariff on footwear imports...
The Ecuadorian government has increased the tariff on footwear imports to 45 percent, saying it aims to promote domestic production and preserve jobs. The higher tariffs, which came into effect on March 11, also apply in varying degrees to imports of other goods, including textiles, perfumes, white goods, building materials ...
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Rafeeque Ahmed, president of the Farida group, was unanimously elected...
Rafeeque Ahmed, president of the Farida group, was unanimously elected to a two-year term as chairman of India's Council for Leather Exports, taking the place of R.K. Jalan of Arvind Footwears. Subash Kapoor was elected vice chairman.
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Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour, a big...
Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour, a big and growing American sports brand. The lawsuit alleged that a sports circuit training commercial “slavishly copies” a highly successful “Protect This House” campaign released by Under Armour five years ago. Skechers will not comment on pending litigation.
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We missed the election last December of Frank Boehly as...
We missed the election last December of Frank Boehly as chairman of the Conseil National du Cuir (CNC), the umbrella organization of the French leather industry that groups 19 different federations along the supply chain. He replaces Paul Batigne, who has become honorary chairman. Boehly, 63, has been in shoe ...
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CTCR, the shoe technology center for La Rioja region of...
CTCR, the shoe technology center for La Rioja region of Spain, is planning to start a total of 32 new projects for the years 2015 and 2016. They will require total investments of €10,334,000, with the share of public subsidies declining. In the next three years, CTCR will concentrate its ...
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Jean-Pierre Fabre, a shoe retailer in Montpellier who has run...
Jean-Pierre Fabre, a shoe retailer in Montpellier who has run the French Shoe Retailers' Federation, has received the Legion of Honor
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Candice Cooper has won a lawsuit against another German firm,...
Candice Cooper has won a lawsuit against another German firm, Semler, which it had accused of infringing on the design of its Rock sneaker. The higher Düsseldorf state court agreed that it was too similar to the Tracy model marketed by Candice Cooper since 2009.
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Rejecting Gucci's claims, a French court has ordered the brand...
Rejecting Gucci's claims, a French court has ordered the brand to pay €30,000 to Guess because of the nuisance caused by its six-year-old trademark dispute with the American firm. Gucci had requested damages of €55 million, arguing that it had infringed its Three G trademark. Gucci lost a similar case ...
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Office has received an official warning by the Information Commissioner's...
Office has received an official warning by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the U.K. after personal data of more than one million of its customers were left exposed due to a hacking incident. According to the ICO, the hacker bypassed the technical measures the multichannel shoe retailer had put ...
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Ralph Lauren has decided to stop marketing a line of...
Ralph Lauren has decided to stop marketing a line of 36 sneakers, following a series of judicial complaints filed by Converse against several brands and retailers last autumn, including Aldo, H&M and Walmart, charging counterfeiting of its Chuck Taylor styles. Reportedly, Ralph Lauren and Converse decided to settle the matter ...
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A new three-year project in the framework of EU's Erasmus+...
A new three-year project in the framework of EU's Erasmus+ program, entitled “High-End Shoe (HES) - Innovative Training for Luxury Footwear Manufacturing,” aims to train footwear technicians and designers for the luxury footwear industry. The kick-off meeting of the project took place on Jan. 22-23 in S. Joao da Madeira, ...
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After three rounds of negotiations, employers in the German footwear...
After three rounds of negotiations, employers in the German footwear and leathergoods sector, represented by HDS/L, reached a compromise with the labor unions on wage increases. They will grow by 3.2 percent as of Jan. 1 and by a further 2.1 percent on Feb. 1, 2016. Individual employees are also ...
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Crocs has lodged a series of legal complaints in India,...
Crocs has lodged a series of legal complaints in India, claiming infringement of its trademark and design rights, against a number of companies including Bata India, Suncorp Exim, Bioworld, Relaxo Footwear and a Chinese firm, Coqui. All the cases relate to cheap alleged imitations of Crocs' shoe styles. The cases ...
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Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has created a...
Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has created a resource center to help shoe companies and customs professionals to work with footwear customs classifications. A dedicated website will provide additional data as new issues arises and new trade rulings are made by the U.S. Customs & Border Protection agency.
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Tiggers Shoes and its four trading companies applied for insolvency...
Tiggers Shoes and its four trading companies applied for insolvency proceedings at the local court of Pirmasens in November. The company markets the Eject and Tiggers brands in Germany and abroad. Three employees are affected by the insolvency proceedings, among them Gerhard Mayer, the chief executive officer. The shoes are ...
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Tommaso Cancellara has been selected to run Assocalzaturifici, the Italian...
Tommaso Cancellara has been selected to run Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, starting next month. He takes the place of Eugenia Girotti, who acted as general manager on an interim basis after the departure last summer of Fabio Aromatici, who is now supervising the international development of Fiera Milano. ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, will be...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, will be integrated from next year into the T+M, the German textile and fashion industry federation. The idea is to defend the joint interests of the shoe and apparel sector at the political level in Berlin as well as in Brussels. As ...
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Ugg Australia has created a special “Ensure Authencity” link at...
Ugg Australia has created a special “Ensure Authencity” link at counterfeit.uggaustralia.com to help consumers avoid fake products, especially in preparation for the holiday season. Thousands of counterfeit websites advertise fake Ugg products using ambiguous wording such as “cheap uggs,” “discount uggs,” or “uggs on sale.” The company has taken legal ...
