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At the opening of the 29th edition of India International...
At the opening of the 29th edition of India International Leather Fair (IILF) in Chennai, on Jan. 31, the chairman of India's Council for Leather Exports, Rajendra Kalan, said the country's leather sector registered an increase in value of 17 percent in the first nine months of the current financial ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo Group said it has discovered and blocked 345...
Salvatore Ferragamo Group said it has discovered and blocked 345 websites and recovered 91 domains using the Ferragamo name to attract potential customers for counterfeit products. Anyone who now arrives at one of the 91 fake domains is automatically taken to a legitimate web page owned by the company, which ...
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The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the winners of...
The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the winners of its second Accelerated Development Programme, its annual mentoring scheme. The selected companies this year are Govan Originals and Gothenburg Boots. The winners were chosen after an interview process from a shortlist of some of the best emerging footwear brands in ...
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The regional sections of Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry federation...
The regional sections of Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry federation that was previously called Anci, are collecting signatures from their member companies to help support the demand for mandatory labels of origin for shoes imported into the European Union. Assocalzaturifici estimates that such a regulation would raise Italy's shoe production ...
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The regional court of Düsseldorf obliged Esprit to pay €900,000...
The regional court of Düsseldorf obliged Esprit to pay €900,000 per year until 2019 to continue to sponsor the Arena in Düsseldorf, which will thus continue to be called “Esprit Arena.” Located across from the Düsseldorf's fairgrounds, the Arena is used for concerts, football matches and other major events. This ...
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Fink Schuhe + Sport, a German retail chain of 54...
Fink Schuhe + Sport, a German retail chain of 54 shoe and sporting goods stores, has applied for insolvency proceedings. A temporary receiver, Georg Bernsau from the law firm of BBL Bernsay Brockdorff, has been appointed, and the company will continue to operate normally. The bankruptcy petition became necessary because ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) is looking for...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) is looking for a new president and chief executive to take the place Kevin M. Burke, who is quitting the job as of next Jan. 21. Burke has held the post for almost 13 years. Another lobbying organization, Airports Council International, has announced ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation has vigorously reacted to an allegation, made...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation has vigorously reacted to an allegation, made through a website hosted by Yahoo, that Ugg boots are made with skins pulled off from live animals. Deckers states that Ugg doesn't use sheepskin unless it's a byproduct of the meat industry. Unlike mink and other animals that are ...
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Assocalzaturifici has struck a deal with Unicredit to help finance...
Assocalzaturifici has struck a deal with Unicredit to help finance the participation of small and medium-sized members of the Italian shoe industry association in theMicam Milan and other trade shows. The loans may also be granted to fund the production of the orders collected at the fairs.
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Auchan, the big French hypermarket chain, has received a total...
Auchan, the big French hypermarket chain, has received a total fine of €250,000 in a counterfeiting suit launched by Feiyue, the growing French brand of sneakers. Apparently, Auchan used the photo of an authentic Feiyue shoe and bought a lot of copies of the model in various colors, made in ...
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Gucci has won a trademark infringement lawsuit against Guess? in...
Gucci has won a trademark infringement lawsuit against Guess? in China, filed in a court in Nanjing. The Italian brand already had won a suit against Guess? over its Double G logo in the U.S. last year, but another court reverse the decision in May. Similar cases are in litigation ...
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Louboutin has won a court case against “Women against Islamisation,”...
Louboutin has won a court case against “Women against Islamisation,” a Belgian anti-Islam campaign group. Activists must remove all posters featuring the stilettos of the luxury footwear designer after a court in Antwerp ruled in the company's favor on Oct. 14. The poster showed the legs of Anke Van Dermeersch, ...
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Louis Vuitton, which tends to sell all of its products...
Louis Vuitton, which tends to sell all of its products through its own stores, has signed an interesting agreement with Taobao, the largest transactional website in China, where consumers buy twice as many goods online as their counterparts in Europe. They have established a set of guidelines to prevent the ...
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The Portuguese shoe and leathergoods industry association, Apiccaps, has re-elected...
The Portuguese shoe and leathergoods industry association, Apiccaps, has re-elected Fortunato Federico as its president for another three years. He has been the president of Apiccaps since 1998. Federico said he wants to make the industry “a reference point internationally.” The entrepreneur is who is the founder of Fly London. ...
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A bankruptcy trustee has defined the structure of the sale...
A bankruptcy trustee has defined the structure of the sale and the starting price for the auction of some of Lones' the assets of Lones, the Italian company that makes Fly Flot shoes at a factory in the province of Brescia. A single lot will go for sale at a ...
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A federal judge has dismissed a claim lodged by Totes...
A federal judge has dismissed a claim lodged by Totes Isotoner against R.G. Barry Corp., alleging that it had copied four of its slipper models
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The European Commission is reportedly reimbursing some of the importers...
The European Commission is reportedly reimbursing some of the importers of leather shoes from China and Vietnam who were affected by the previous anti-dumping duties, following a decision by the European Court of Justice on Feb. 2, 2012 in favor of four Chinese shoe manufacturers who had filed a suit ...
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Deckers Outdoor has won a judicial dispute with Intermedium Shoes...
Deckers Outdoor has won a judicial dispute with Intermedium Shoes in the district court of The Hague with regard to the design of Ugg Australia's Bailey Button boot. The Dutch trading company had initiated the legal action after the American company attacked a German retailer for selling allegedly fake boots. ...
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Skechers has lost a court case started in April 2013...
Skechers has lost a court case started in April 2013 against Cortina in Düsseldorf. The U.S. company alleged that some models of the Belgian-based trading company were infringing on one of its registered designs and its trade model in the Twinkle Toe range. On July 5, the Regional Court of ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the public policy...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), the public policy and political voice of the apparel and footwear industry in the U.S., has just released the thirteenth edition of the AAFA Restricted Substances List (RSL), in conjunction with the International Product Safety & Restricted Substances Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, on ...
