News Briefs Retail – Page 39
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Timberland has launched its “Design Your Own” (DYO) online service...
Timberland has launched its “Design Your Own” (DYO) online service in Europe, allowing consumers to create their own personalized shoes. The “Timberland DYO” program, now available in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, offers a choice among 11 men's, women's and children's models, including the 6-inch Premium Boot, the ...
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Karl Faurholt, the 19-year-old Danish artist who is behind a...
Karl Faurholt, the 19-year-old Danish artist who is behind a custom sneaker sensation, KarlsKicks, has decided to open a physical store in the center of Copenhagen. In the past year Faurholt earned 700,000 Danish kroner (€94,063.0-$105,486.1) from painting and renovating people's sneakers with the goal of making every single pair of ...
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Sonae, the Portugal-based multi-brand retailer, is partnering with Argo to...
Sonae, the Portugal-based multi-brand retailer, is partnering with Argo to expand the Zippy stores, its children's clothing and footwear brand, in Ukraine. The brand already has 15 spaces in Spain in partnership with El Corte Ingles. The recent agreement between Sonae and Argo has enabled the opening of seven Zippy ...
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Floris van Bommel opened the third company-owned mono-brand store in...
Floris van Bommel opened the third company-owned mono-brand store in Germany. Located in a Hamburg shopping center, it has a sales surface of 70 sqm. The opening was accompanied by the launch of a special model, “Monkey's Business,” developed in cooperation with Bendix Bauer, an illustrator from Berlin. The industrial-vintage ...
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Birkenstock has opened its first company-owned mono-brand store in Spain....
Birkenstock has opened its first company-owned mono-brand store in Spain. Over 220 shoe items, from classical sandals to sneakers, as well as kids' shoes, socks and bags, are offered in the store, covering 54 sqm in the famous Calle Fuencarral in Madrid. The design of the store is in line ...
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Baldinini has opened its first store in the U.S. The...
Baldinini has opened its first store in the U.S. The boutique is located in The Mall at Short Hills in Short Hills, New Jersey, not far from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark. The mall is a popular destination for international travelers. For the past five years, the Italian luxury ...
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In Europe Amazon has rolled out a section of its...
In Europe Amazon has rolled out a section of its e-commerce website where it features hand-crafted products sold directly by artisans. “Handmade” offers more than a thousand European artisans the possibility to present their goods and to explain their craft and the distinctive properties of each object. Handmade was first ...
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Yoox Net-A-Porter has announced a complete overhaul of its web...
Yoox Net-A-Porter has announced a complete overhaul of its web site, mobile site and app. The new site, which was unveiled on Sept. 16, features a more luxurious and colorful appearance as well as new editorial content streams. Through the new site, which is accessible via all mobiles, the user ...
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Aldo has opened a new type of “connected store” in...
Aldo has opened a new type of “connected store” in the new Westfield World Trade Center of New York. Among other features, it has a click-and-collect option that goes as far as telling the customer who will attend him or her at the store. The shoes will be sourced from ...
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Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, plans to enter...
Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, plans to enter the Italian market this autumn. The first store will be opened in Brescia, followed by another in Verona in 2017. Snipes already has 11 stores in Austria, 11 in Switzerland, 8 in the Netherlands and 5 in Spain. Italy will ...
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DSW has announced a new exclusive franchise partnership in the...
DSW has announced a new exclusive franchise partnership in the Persian Gulf with the Dubai-based Apparel Group. The deal will expand DSW across the region with the opening of 40 stores in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Oman. The first stores are scheduled for opening in ...
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Church's has opened a new boutique in Beijing, on the...
Church's has opened a new boutique in Beijing, on the second floor of the Shin Kong Place (SKP) department store. It is the brand's first store in Beijing, and second in mainland China. Customers can find there the men's footwear collections of the British high-end shoe manufacturer, including the classic ...
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Jones Bootmaker will celebrate its British heritage with a men's...
Jones Bootmaker will celebrate its British heritage with a men's footwear collection in September. The “Made in Britain” line will boast 19 options across seven styles, all featuring the iconic British racing green color in details such as eyelets and boot tabs. Prices will start from £220 (€278-$312). The British ...
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Shoepassion.com, a three-year-old German internet store that has physical shops...
Shoepassion.com, a three-year-old German internet store that has physical shops in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Warsaw, plans to start selling its private label of handmade men's shoes to wholesale clients in Germany and abroad. The project was presented during the Fashion Week in Berlin on June 28-30 at ...
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Santoni has gone ahead with the planned opening of its...
Santoni has gone ahead with the planned opening of its first flagship store in Paris, presenting its men's line and located at a prestigious address: 36 avenue George V. The Italian brand plans to add seven more stores in the last four months of this year, building up to a ...
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Bruno Magli has announced expansion plans for China and Japan....
Bruno Magli has announced expansion plans for China and Japan. According to Footwear News, the Italian luxury firm has signed new partnerships with Sitoy Retailing in China and Bruno Magli Partners in Japan. The agreements in both countries include a strong retail strategy. In addition to wholesale distribution, Sitoy Retailing will ...
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Superga opened a new flagship store in Milan at the...
Superga opened a new flagship store in Milan at the end of May. Franchised stores were opened in Barcelona at the beginning of July and in Singapore two months previously. The new stores in those two cities are the brand's second stores in Spain and Singapore. Superga has 250 stores ...
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Toms EMEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam and 12 new employees...
Toms EMEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam and 12 new employees hired in the course of the last year, has been pushing the company's sales in the Middle East. A local distribution partner, the Apparel Group, opened two new franchised stores, in the Mirdiff and Deira shopping malls, in Dubai in ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, invited industry...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, invited industry professionals to a symposium on June 7 in Mainz. As reported by Schuhkurier, Christian Kernbichl, chief executive at Merkkur, a German e-business and consulting company, provided an insight into Amazon. Kernbichl worked for five years as vendor manager and senior ...
