News Briefs Distribution – Page 7
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BIG buys Aldo U.K.
The U.K. arm of the Canadian footwear retailer Aldo Group has been acquired by Bushell Investment Group (BIG), which is based in Birmingham, England. BIG indicated that the acquisition, for which financial details were not released, will preserve 150 jobs and lead to the creation of an additional 50 roles ...
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Russian shoe market nearly 3 times larger than previously estimated
The recent introduction of mandatory tagging of footwear in Russia has shown that up to 1.3 billion pairs of shoes are sold in the country on average per year. This is nearly three times more than previous official estimates, said Denis Manturov, the Russian industry and trade minister The tagging ...
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Gabor has 500,000 pairs in stock for autumn/winter season
Gabor has around 500,000 pairs of shoes in stock for the current autumn/winter season to enable retailers to reorder at short notice. Orders can be made continuously through the B2B online shop. Telephone orders are also possible.
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News briefsAllbirds enters South Korea
Allbirds, the Californian brand of sustainable footwear, has entered the South Korea market. The brand was created in 2016 by Joey Zwillinger and Tim Brown with one model, the Wool Runner, which uses superfine merino wool from New Zealand. Allbirds said that it had planned to enter the Korean market ...
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Wolverine adopts First Insight's consumer analytics
Wolverine Worldwide has announced a strategic partnership with First Insight under which it will deploy its Voice of the Customer predictive analytics solution across its portfolio of 12 brands, including Merrell, Sperry, Saucony, Hush Puppies and Keds. The deal follows a successful test conducted by Hush Puppies in different regions ...
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Geox pays July wages of bankrupt logistics provider
Geox, through its unit Xlog, paid the wages for the month of July of about 380 employees of the logistics company Venere, a unit of the Milanese group CGS currently being liquidated after being declared bankrupt. The payment was reached after Xlog reached an agreement with the Treviso chapter of ...
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News briefsCamtrade rebranded The Enjoiya Group
The U.S. women’s wholesale footwear firm Camtrade has changed names to The Enjoiya Group. The company manufactures and distributes three shoe brands, Enjoiya, Secret Celebrity and Soft Comfort. They have an emphasis on comfort and fit, with price-value also a key component in the market positioning. Enjoiya is the company’s ...
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News briefsKavat closing down some showrooms in digitalization move
Kavat, the Swedish family-owned company based in the shoe-making town of Kumla, is closing down its traditional showrooms in Düsseldorf, Oslo and Gothenburg as it intends to rely on a new B2B platform, scheduled to come on stream in August, and using flagship stores as showrooms and meeting places with ...
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Oliver Sweeney closes its stores
The British footwear company Oliver Sweeney has permanently closed its five stores as its retail business, Oliver Sweeney Trading, went into administration, a local procedure for creditor protection. Three stores were located in London, one in Leeds and one in Manchester. The company’s online and wholesale businesses are not involed ...
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Lloyd stops production in Germany
Lloyd Shoes, the big German shoe manufacturer specializing in men’s footwear, expects a decline in sales of around 30 percent in the current financial year due to the coronavirus crisis. In response to a reduced demand for business shoes, the manufacturer will stop manufacturing at the Sulingen site in Germany, ...
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Boohoo to review UK supply chain as retailers drop brand over pay, conditions scandal
Boohoo, the UK e-tailer and fast fashion brand, has commissioned an independent review of its domestic supply chain and promised to spend £10 million dealing with malpractice after major retailers, including Amazon, Next and Asos stopped stocking its clothes. The review comes as Boohoo deals with allegations of using suppliers ...
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Crocs starts building a new European distribution center in Holland
Crocs has started building a 35,000 square meter distribution center in Dordrecht, in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands, which will become its main logistics hub in Europe. The new center is expected to open in April 2021 and create 200 to 350 jobs. The Amercian company known ...
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News briefsTJ Sporting Goods distributes Le Chameau in Germany and Austria
Following the takeover of Le Chameau by the British family-owned company Bradshaw Taylor Ltd. in March, the German distribution of the premium footwear label is now also being reorganized. With immediate effect, the Bradshaw Taylor sales subsidiary TJ Sporting Goods GmbH in Sindelfingen will be responsible for supporting Le Chameau’s ...
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Havaianas launches first collection for the street
Havaianas, the Brazilian flip flop brand owned by Alpargatas, has launched its first style created for the street rather than the beach in collaboration with the Japanese urban fashion brand mastermind JAPAN. The sandals have a square base, rather than the brand’s traditional rounded shape, a thick rubber sole and ...
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Benetton inks sneaker deal with UBC
Benetton Group has signed a “multi-year” licensing deal with and Italian sneaker producer, United Brands Company (UBC), for the design, production and distribution of new sneaker collections for men, women and children under its United Colors of Benetton brand. UBC will also handle the distribution in countries in which it ...
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Aldo UK enters administration
Canadian footwear retailer Aldo Group said its UK arm has been placed into administration, due to profitability problems and a collapse in retail spending amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Five of its UK stores have been permanently closed, while the eight remaining ones have been handed over to administrators who will ...
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India extends lockdown for 2 weeks from May 4
The Indian government is extending a nationwide lockown for two weeks from May 4. The lockdown was scheduled to end on May 3 and will now run until May 17. The Ministry of Home Affairs however indicated that there would be significant relaxations in low risk parts of the country, ...
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Ecco restructuring its European sales
In an effort to get closer to consumers, Ecco has decided to restructure its European sales organization, decentralizing the management of its wholesale operations. They will be led by a dedicated general manager in each of the three European regions. In the framework of this reorganization, Erik Heldoorn, sales director ...
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Finn Comfort introduces EDI
Finn Comfort, the German brand for comfort shoes that is owned by the Waldi Schuhfabrik, has adopted an electronic data exchange (EDI) program as an option for its clients. Business data can then be exchanged in a fully automated manner via an EDI interface. Finn Comfort will be supported by ...
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Bundgaard and Dulls get new representative in the Netherlands
Thomas Wessels is the new representative in the Netherlands of the children’s shoe brands Bundgaard and Dulis. Bundgaard is a Scandinavian label and Dulis originates in Portugal.
