News Briefs Retail – Page 35
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Endless, which acquired Jones Bootmaker in March, has closed nine...
Endless, which acquired Jones Bootmaker in March, has closed nine of its stores and is considering up to ten more closures, according to Drapers. Endless had bought only 72 of the British shoe retailer's stores. The remaining 25 stores, plus six concessions, were closed down.
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Customers can sample a local craft beer while shopping at...
Customers can sample a local craft beer while shopping at the new Timberland specialty concept store. Called The Timberland Tree Lab, the store recently opened in the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania, the second-largest shopping mall in the U.S. The experimental store features carefully curated collections and brand stories ...
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Lloyd has given a more modern look to its store...
Lloyd has given a more modern look to its store in Düsseldorf's Kö Galerie, as it is doing with six other stores and various showrooms this year. Meanwhile, the expansion of Lloyd in China is continuing with the opening of two new concept stores in Beijing. As reported in Shoe ...
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Replay has ambitious plans to expand internationally and will reportedly...
Replay has ambitious plans to expand internationally and will reportedly open 150 mono-brand stores in China over the next five years. According to reports in Drapers, the premium denim brand will initially focus on Tier 1 cities, before widening its focus into China's Tier 2 cities. The brand entered the ...
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Colette, the famous Parisian store, is going to close its...
Colette, the famous Parisian store, is going to close its doors on Dec. 20, after 20 successful years of operation, simply because its founder and buyer, Colette Rousseaux, is going to retire. A terse press release says she “has arrived at an age where it is the time for her ...
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Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) has launched an augmented reality app for...
Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) has launched an augmented reality app for a “try, share and shop” customer experience on its Yoox website. The online luxury fashion retailer, the result of a merger between the Italian-based Yoox Group and the U.K.-based Net-A-Porter Group in 2015, has partnered with Lumyer, the creators of ...
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Berluti is expanding into e-commerce. The Italian-French fashion firm owned...
Berluti is expanding into e-commerce. The Italian-French fashion firm owned by LVMH unveiled its new online store during the recent Men's Fashion Week in Paris. Berluti was founded in 1895 as an elite men's shoe cobbler. Since 2011, it has expanded its range to include luxury menswear, leathergoods and accessories ...
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Hogan is going to open a new store at 5...
Hogan is going to open a new store at 5 via Montenapoleone during next September's Milan Fashion Week. It will occupy the premises of a former Bottega Veneta boutique, and it will replace the existing Hogan stores at 23 via Montenapoleone. The store will feature a new design that will ...
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The Percassi group has decided to shut down one of...
The Percassi group has decided to shut down one of its ten Vergelio shoe shops, located on Milan's important Corso Vittorio Emanuele. The group, which runs many other retail banners, bought the Vergelio chain two years ago with the intent to develop it into a multi-channel operation in Italy and ...
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Alberto Guardiani is opening a new flagship store in Istanbul,...
Alberto Guardiani is opening a new flagship store in Istanbul, the brand's second one in Turkey. The first in the country was inaugurated in 2013, in Ankara. The new Turkish store is located at the Akasya Mall. Turkey is the third market for the brand, after Italy and Eastern Europe. ...
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Peter Kaiser is planning to open new mono-label stores later...
Peter Kaiser is planning to open new mono-label stores later this year, particularly in Canada, through the same retailer who has done good business with another Peter Kaiser store in Toronto. This year has already seen the opening of Peter Kaiser stores in the Dutch city of Utrecht in April ...
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Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin...
Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin in March, and it will remain open until the end of September. Toms EMEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam, does not plan to open any other mono-brand stores in Germany. It currently sells its products to roughly 750 doors in the ...
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All of Ara's shoe stores are being redesigned as part...
All of Ara's shoe stores are being redesigned as part of a relaunch of the German brand. It has a new logo and its product range is divided in two different segments for fashion and function. The new store concept is in line with Ara's product segmentation. The Ara stores ...
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Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store,...
Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store, called Fourty Tree, in Hauenstein on July 22. Covering 200 square meters, the store will feature apparel and shoes of brands such as Adidas, Puma, Nike, Reebok and Diadora. Carl-August Seibel is the chief executive of the Josef Seibel Group, ...
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Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently...
Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently opened a new store in Zurich based on a hybrid physical and internet model. Through an information point, clients can get access to an app in the store and take a look at the complete product range. The customer can ...
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The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six...
The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six Vögele shoe stores in Austria. Schuh & Schuh PKTS, the Austrian company formerly known as Vögele Shoes, filed for insolvency at the beginning of this year. An out-of-court restructuring process was not successful and the group did not find an ...
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Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue...
Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue that took over the German Kaufhof chain, has opened the first of a series of European Saks Off department stores in Düsseldorf. Covering 3,500 square meters on four floors, it offers closeouts by more than 700 brands of apparel, footwear, ...
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Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier...
Havaianas opened its first store in the German market earlier this month. Located in the famous Berlin shopping avenue, the Ku'damm, the shop occupies 70 square meters of retail space. There are now 30 Havaianas stores throughout Europe, as well as 40 concessions and 80 franchise shops.
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Eram will be selling its products online in China via...
Eram will be selling its products online in China via the Boutique France operated by the French Post Office on the Tmall internet platform. Eram is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. Tmall is the marketplace for foreign companies of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. Tmall is also a doorway ...
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Sarkany, a shoe brand from Argentina, opened its first store...
Sarkany, a shoe brand from Argentina, opened its first store in Barcelona on May 17. Antonella Roccuzzo and Sofia Balbi, business partners and married to Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, respectively, were also present at the store opening. Messi and Suárez play for the FC Barcelona. Sarkany has 52 stores ...
