News Briefs Retail – Page 42
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Pittarosso has just opened a new store in Milan, at...
Pittarosso has just opened a new store in Milan, at corso Buenos Aires 35. The new shop has a retail surface of 700 square meter. The Italian footwear retailer plans to open 50 new doors in Italy and abroad in 2015. Pittarosso posted revenues of €237 million in 2014. The ...
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Tata Italia has announced a 14 percent sales increase for...
Tata Italia has announced a 14 percent sales increase for the last fiscal year, with revenues of €37.5 million, and plans for the opening of new shops. The brand is aiming for revenues of €45 million this year. Tata Italia, which is based in Bitonto, near Bari, operates a total ...
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El Corte Inglés is backing a new campaign to highlight...
El Corte Inglés is backing a new campaign to highlight made-in-Spain products on new labels of origin. ModaEspaña, a multi-sector fashion federation, started the campaign, which aims at the same time to promote “Spain” as a brand among domestic consumers while making it easier for them to identify goods made ...
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Zalando is testing a new same-day delivery formula in Berlin...
Zalando is testing a new same-day delivery formula in Berlin and Cologne. If the customer places an order before 4 PM, it will be delivered between 7 and 9 PM. If the test is successful, it will be extended to other areas, notably to major cities in Germany and the ...
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Deichmann is offering a new “Ship to Home” service for...
Deichmann is offering a new “Ship to Home” service for items that are not available for immediate purchase by customers at its 1,200 stores in Germany. They will be sent to customers within two working days, with the possibility to return them.
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Mirapodo, the five-year-old German online shoe shop owned by the...
Mirapodo, the five-year-old German online shoe shop owned by the Otto Group, has expanded its product offering by 30 percent for the current selling season. It has added 27 new brands including Franco Russo, LA Gear and Think. The business unit is run by Johannes Merkl.
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The Level Shoes District in the Dubai Mall, which belongs...
The Level Shoes District in the Dubai Mall, which belongs to the Chaloub Group and claims to be the world's largest shoe store, has further expanded its surface. With an enlarged men's shoe department, it now measures 9,000 square meters, nearly 300 m² more than before. It offers around 1,500 ...
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The Aldo Group's largest store to date has opened in...
The Aldo Group's largest store to date has opened in Dubai's Festival City Mall. It spans over 8,000 square feet. Through its franchisees, the company already has about 140 brand stores in the Gulf countries, where it plans to double the door count within the next five years.
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After opening its first physical store in its home town...
After opening its first physical store in its home town of Grenoble last March, Spartoo has decided to open eight more of them in France before the end of this year. The French shoe e-tailer, which reached sales of €130 million in 2014, is now planning to have about 50 ...
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As part of its omni-channel strategy, Deckers Brands is opening...
As part of its omni-channel strategy, Deckers Brands is opening two temporary Ugg stores in Boston and near New York City that offer between 500 and 550 items and provide access through a digital kiosk to Infinite Ugg, an online store with plenty of other models to choose from. They ...
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Omnichannel shoe retailing continues to develop also in Europe. Shoepassion.com,...
Omnichannel shoe retailing continues to develop also in Europe. Shoepassion.com, the two-year-old internet store based in Berlin, has opened its fourth physical store in Frankfurt, at Friedenstrasse 9. All the shoes are private label generics, made for the most part in Spain and Italy. If a particular size is not ...
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Dr. Martens has opened its first store on London's Oxford...
Dr. Martens has opened its first store on London's Oxford Street on three levels, taking the place of a former Accessorize shop at number 386. The 1,100-square-foot store celebrates the history of the brand through a series of images. It is the 22nd Dr. Martens store in the U.K.
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Saks Fifth Avenue plans to open its first footwear-only store...
Saks Fifth Avenue plans to open its first footwear-only store in the autumn of 2016, under an as-yet unspecified name. It will cover about 1,300 square meters at 20 East Elm Street in Greenwich, Connecticut, not far from its local department store. The store will probably offer a larger assortment ...
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Decathlon, Timberland, Zara and about 20 other major international brands...
Decathlon, Timberland, Zara and about 20 other major international brands have signed exclusive partnership agreements with the Alibaba Group, establishing its Tmall.com website as the only third-party internet platform through which they will sell their products to consumers in China. In announcing these deals, Alibaba also said that it is ...
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After 19 years of collaboration, Zeis Excelsa will stop distributing...
After 19 years of collaboration, Zeis Excelsa will stop distributing Merrell in Italy after the end of this year. By then, it will also have closed or converted its six Merrell stores in Italy. The new Italian distributor of the brand will be a company called Premiere Distribution.
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Havaianas has opened a new store of 120 square meters...
Havaianas has opened a new store of 120 square meters in the centrally located Triangle shopping center in Barcelona. Reportedly, the brand wants to have 180 stores in place in Europe, up from the current door count of 127 stores, 100 of which are seasonal. The parent company of the ...
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The French pop-up store sponsored by the French shoe industry...
The French pop-up store sponsored by the French shoe industry federation this past spring to showcase some of the best French shoe brands turned out to be a rather successful project. It generated the equivalent of €120,000 over a three-week period for the seven French companies that participated, each with ...
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Melissa, the upscale brand of Grendene, is opening its first...
Melissa, the upscale brand of Grendene, is opening its first Italian mono-brand store in Bologna, to be followed by one in the sea resort of Forte dei Marmi. The brand will thus have a total of more than 60 stores around the world. Melissa has also opened a pop-up store ...
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Minelli, one of the shoe retail chains of the French...
Minelli, one of the shoe retail chains of the French Vivarte group, has opened stores in Chengdu and Makau. Other should follow in Taiwan and South Korea. Minelli, which is performing relatively well, has also renovated its flagship store on avenue Victor Hugo in Paris. The concept will be rolled ...
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Faguo, the French brand of shoes and accessories, has opened...
Faguo, the French brand of shoes and accessories, has opened its first store, located at 81, rue Vielle-du-Temple in Paris, with the help of some seed financing. Reportedly, Faguo raised its sales by 40 percent to €2.8 million last year and one-third of them were made outside France.
