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Gucci America and Guess are in U.S. federal court this...
Gucci America and Guess are in U.S. federal court this month, with Gucci alleging that Guess infringed on its trademark designs, including its red and green stripes, its interlocking G's, its stylized G mark and the Gucci script design mark. Gucci says that Guess deliberately imitated these symbols in an ...
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Gruppo Mastrotto, the big Italian tanning group, has agreed to...
Gruppo Mastrotto, the big Italian tanning group, has agreed to pay €27 million in outstanding taxes to financial authorities after being accused of paying employees off the books
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The regional government of Valencia, Spain, is going to help...
The regional government of Valencia, Spain, is going to help out-of-work footwear industry employees find new jobs in the area with a support package backed by the European Commission worth €2.5 million. Three hundred fifty workers will get support to find new jobs at footwear companies, with the funding coming ...
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Representatives from the footwear industries of India and Sri Lanka...
Representatives from the footwear industries of India and Sri Lanka signed a memorandum of understanding at the 4th International Footwear and Leather Fair held in Colombo on Feb. 10-12. The two will share news of developments in their respective countries, encourage strategic alliances and look into developing business ties. India ...
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The Spanish Supreme Court has put an end to a...
The Spanish Supreme Court has put an end to a long judicial fight started by Geox in 2004 and Fluchos, the Spanish brand of comfort shoes, whose soles feature a patented three-layer Oxygen Climatic Control system designed to aerate the foot while keeping moisture away. As reported in the last ...
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Twenty-three people were arrested on the first day of a...
Twenty-three people were arrested on the first day of a new initiative by authorities in Guangdong province, China, to eliminate the manufacture and sale of counterfeit luxury items. Officers closed off 31 production facilities or sales outlets as well. Nine provincial government departments and 700 police officers are taking part ...
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Alain Duménil, a French real estate investor who bought Francesco...
Alain Duménil, a French real estate investor who bought Francesco Smalto, Jean-Louis Scherrer and several other fashion brands, has received a suspended sentence of one year in prison and a fine of €75,000 in relation to the bankruptcy and liquidation of Stephane Kélian in 2005, which led to the dismissal ...
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Twenty-four million Zappos customers were told to reset their password...
Twenty-four million Zappos customers were told to reset their password last month when hackers accessed the online retailer's site, possibly gaining access to personal information including names, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of their credit card numbers. Full credit card numbers were not accessible. ...
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Le Cuir, the occasionally well-informed French newsletter of Jean-Pierre Bidegain,...
Le Cuir, the occasionally well-informed French newsletter of Jean-Pierre Bidegain, reports on a new epidemic that has attacked some 300 cow, sheep and goat farms in Germany and the Netherlands. The epidemic, known as the Schmalleng virus, has apparently spread to Belgium and the U.K. Animal farms are under ...
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Top leaders of the CIC, the Argentinian Footwear Association, recently...
Top leaders of the CIC, the Argentinian Footwear Association, recently met with Beatriz Paglieri, Argentina's minister for external trade. Sergio Panossian, the vice president of the CIC, and Horacio Moschetto, the general secretary, said that the goal for 2012 was that the country's footwear industry should produce 125 million pairs ...
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Free Lance has won a counterfeiting case aginst Minelli in...
Free Lance has won a counterfeiting case aginst Minelli in the Paris court of appeals in relation to its Queenie Derby model
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Christian Louboutin's claim to exclusivity for its red-soled shoes is...
Christian Louboutin's claim to exclusivity for its red-soled shoes is getting increasingly challenged in the U.S., where a group of law professors from several universities have criticized its stand as a sort of “color monopoly.” Late last month, the defendant in the U.S. case, Yves Saint-Laurent, opposed Louboutin's appeal against ...
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Senacsa, the national animal health service of Paraguay, has informed...
Senacsa, the national animal health service of Paraguay, has informed the World Organization for Animal Health that there is a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the country. The new case is in San Pedro, in the southeastern part of the country, and could hurt the country's cattle, ...
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A new Italian law allowing stores to stay open at...
A new Italian law allowing stores to stay open at all times from the start of this year is causing controversy and disbelief among the country's retailers. The bold move was pushed by Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, as part of his plan to open up the country's services industry. ...
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The Indian government has decided to allow foreign brands to...
The Indian government has decided to allow foreign brands to set own up to 100 percent of any of their mono-brand stores operating in the country, instead of working with a local partner. The only conditions is that they will have to source at least 30 percent of the value ...
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Deckers Outdoor Corporation has settled the lawsuit against Dr. Jay's...
Deckers Outdoor Corporation has settled the lawsuit against Dr. Jay's in which it claimed that the New York retailer sold counterfeit Ugg boots in its stores. Dr. Jay's has to destroy any fake inventory it has, and donate any actual Uggs to charity. While Dr. Jay's is not an authorized ...
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The merger of the federation of the German footwear industry,...
The merger of the federation of the German footwear industry, HDS, and the German association of leathergoods manufacturers, BVLK, has been decided. From Jan. 1, 2012, a single association called HDS will take over their operations. Like the former HDS, it will be run by Manfred Junkert and Ralph Rieker ...
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Cotance, the European Tanners' Council, has joined the International Council...
Cotance, the European Tanners' Council, has joined the International Council of Tanners (ICT) as a group following a meeting of the ICT during the World Leather Congress in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 6 where its conditions were accepted. The main condition was a revision of various clauses in the ...
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The European Trade Union Federation for Textiles, Clothing and Leather...
The European Trade Union Federation for Textiles, Clothing and Leather and Cotance, the European leather industry's representative body in Brussels, have begun a project to analyze the socioeconomic and environmental performance of the tanning industry in Europe. A detailed report will be published about the findings. The EU is sponsoring ...
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Portugal's Technology Center for the Leather Industry, CTIC, has joined...
Portugal's Technology Center for the Leather Industry, CTIC, has joined the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies, and its R&D director, Filipe Crispim, has joined the international group's executive committee. CTIC was set up in 992 by the Portuguese Leather Association to help promote technical innovation in the ...
