All Legal & Institutional articles – Page 47
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Italian authorities are seeking a nine-year prison sentence for Walter...
Italian authorities are seeking a nine-year prison sentence for Walter Burani and his son Giovanni, in connection with the collapse in 2010 of Burani Designer Holding, Mariella Burani Family Holding and Mariella Burani Fashion Group. At the end of his closing speech on July 16, Milan's deputy prosecutor, Luigi Orsi, ...
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Preben Boas, the longtime executive director of the Danish sporting...
Preben Boas, the longtime executive director of the Danish sporting goods manufacturers association, SL, has formally taken over the management of DSF, the Danish association of shoe suppliers, as well. Some of the 37 members of DSF, such as Ecco, belong to both associations. Boas takes the place of Jette ...
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Cotance, the organization that represents the tanning industry in its...
Cotance, the organization that represents the tanning industry in its relations with the European Commission, has elected Rino Mastrotto as its chairman for the 2012-14 period. Mastrotto, who is at the head of the eponymous group, is also the president of Unic, the powerful Italian tanning industry association. Thomas Bee, ...
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Gabor is enforcing its intellectual property rights with regard to...
Gabor is enforcing its intellectual property rights with regard to its trade name and its designs against a number of companies, including an Italian producer and companies in France and Spain. It recently won a court case against a Korean company accused of misusing Gabor's trademark rights. That firm will ...
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Converse is sueing Cora in Belgium, requesting damages of €374,000....
Converse is sueing Cora in Belgium, requesting damages of €374,000. The supermarket chain has been accused of advertising the sale of Converse shoes at low prices, although the shoes were imitations of the authentic models.
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After losing a round in its legal battle against Yves...
After losing a round in its legal battle against Yves Saint Laurent in the U.S., Christian Louboutin has reportedly lost a similar fight against Zara. A French court has apparently ruled that the red-soled shoes marketed by Zara did not violate Louboutin's intellectual property rights. It has levied a fine ...
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Local authorities have dropped a legal case against Wortmann, opened...
Local authorities have dropped a legal case against Wortmann, opened in September 2010, under which the big German company had been suspected of circumventing the former anti-dumping duties of the European Union against leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam. The authorities found little evidence to justify such a suspicion ...
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Alberto Bichi, secretary general of Fesi, the European Sporting Goods...
Alberto Bichi, secretary general of Fesi, the European Sporting Goods Industry Federation, will also act as EU public affairs director of HDS, the German shoe and leathergoods industry federation, starting on July 1. Bichi will assist HDS in such areas as international trade, product safety, intellectual property rights, environmental protection ...
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In the midst of Spain's economic crisis, employers' groups and...
In the midst of Spain's economic crisis, employers' groups and trade unions representing workers in the footwear industry there have reached a deal on pay for 2012, 2013 and 2014. The increases are small – 0.5 percent this year and 0.6 percent in 2013 and 2014 – but they come ...
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The 75 members of the Comité Colbert, which groups French...
The 75 members of the Comité Colbert, which groups French luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Chanel, have launched a wide-ranging campaign to fight counterfeiting throughout Europe, where the black market has thrived thanks to the internet. With the help of customs agents at 18 airports throughout France, ...
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Gucci has won a three-year legal battle against Guess and...
Gucci has won a three-year legal battle against Guess and its footwear licensee, Marc Fisher, in a U.S. court. The judge in the case went along with Gucci's accusations of trademark and copyright infringement, barring Guess from using Gicci's Quattro G pattern, its green-red-green stripe and other square G marks. ...
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The German Leather Federation, VDL, has established the new ECO2L...
The German Leather Federation, VDL, has established the new ECO2L label to designate products that are made using best energy-efficiency low-carbon technologies. The federation calls it as “the world's first calculation and auditing model for determining the energy efficiency and the carbon emissions of a tannery.” The Leather Research Foundation ...
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A total of 25 large, medium and small companies have...
A total of 25 large, medium and small companies have already joined an information coalition around a Brussels-based lawyer for the repayment of anti-dumping duties that they paid to the European Commission on leather shoes imported from China and Vietnam between 2006 and 2011. The lawyer, Edwin Vermulst, who belongs ...
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After 27 U.S. Congress members sent a letter supporting the...
After 27 U.S. Congress members sent a letter supporting the easing of tariffs through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (see Shoe Intelligence of May 7), another 18 have weighed in on the other side. They are asking Ron Kirk, U.S. trade representative, to keep the tariffs in place, arguing that they are ...
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Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies,...
Indonesia and Malaysia have signed an agreement to be allies, rather than competitors, in their footwear industries. The Malaysian Footwear Manufacturers Association and the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) signed the cooperation agreement in the hopes that footwear producers in both countries band together to grow despite competition from companies elsewhere.
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A group of local institutions in the British county of...
A group of local institutions in the British county of Northamptonshire are planning to establish an International Footwear Foundation for designers, researchers and students. The county, which has a 900-year history of shoemaking, is already home to the BLC Leather Technology Center and to Satra, the international certification body. The ...
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A new Chinese office and laboratory of Satra in Dongguan...
A new Chinese office and laboratory of Satra in Dongguan was officially opened on May 14
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America has deemed Nicaragua...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America has deemed Nicaragua a “rising star” that has great potential as a big supplier of footwear to the U.S. The FDRA, in its 2012 Annual Footwear Sourcing Forecast, noted that China was the source of 85.3 percent of all shoe imports in the ...
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The International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Association...
The International Council for Hide Skins and Leather Traders' Association chose John Reddington, president of the U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association, to be its new president at its 83rd general annual meeting last month. Nick Winters, president of the Syndicat Général Des Cuirs et Peaux in France, and Zhang ...
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The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province...
The city council of Chengdu, in the southern Chinese province of Sichuan, has decreed that all the local tanneries must move elsewhere by 2015, along with other polluting industries
