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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Collective Brands has decided to recall about 45,000 pairs of...
Collective Brands has decided to recall about 45,000 pairs of Know It All girls' shoes in the U.S. because of an ornamental star on the heel that can pose a laceration hazard. The U.S. company said it had received 27 reports of cuts and scratches. Affected consumers have been advised ...
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More initiatives by the very active British Footwear Association, led...
More initiatives by the very active British Footwear Association, led by Richard Kotter: The organization has introduced a new type of membership – associate membership – geared toward smaller companies that don't need the full range of BFA benefits. Eight companies have already signed up +++ More than 18 people ...
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Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has announced that...
Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has announced that the country will begin imposing a 150 percent tax on the export of semi-finished leather. The goal is to promote exports of finished leather and leathergoods. The country has also laid the groundwork to stop exporting raw hides as well.
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An auction of shoes designed by the late Roger Vivier...
An auction of shoes designed by the late Roger Vivier has generated proceeds of more than €600,000. Diego Della Valle, major shareholder of Tod's and licensee of the Roger Vivier brand, reportedly bought more than 100 styles, but he is considering legating that to the Shoe Museum of Romans, which ...
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Dozens of brands have signed up to have a presence...
Dozens of brands have signed up to have a presence in a 10,000-square-meter theme park for shoes and leathergoods due to be set up near Waalwijk, the leading Dutch hub of the leather community. Offering commercial, educational and cultural experiences, the new center is expected to attract between 300,000 and ...
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An old factory could bring some new life to the...
An old factory could bring some new life to the footwear industry in Romans, the former shoe town in southeastern France, with some help from the local government. The departmental authorities approved a €12,000 grant last month for the Romans Leather Hub (Pôle Cuir de Romans), an association that has ...
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Bruno Ferrari, Mexico's federal minister of the economy, has indicated...
Bruno Ferrari, Mexico's federal minister of the economy, has indicated that his government will likely reimpose anti-dumping duties on footwear from China before the end of the first quarter of 2012. He gave his assurances to a group of shoe industry leaders in Léon, stressing that his government had been ...
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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 ...
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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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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 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 ...
