News Briefs Retail – Page 46
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United Nude is currently looking to open another store in...
United Nude is currently looking to open another store in the Netherlands by the end of this year and a franchised store in Paris, also by then or at the beginning of 2015. Jointly owned by the Clarks family and the Dutch designer Rem Koolhaas, nephew of the famous Dutch ...
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Josef Seibel Retail, parent company of the German shoe retail...
Josef Seibel Retail, parent company of the German shoe retail chains Leiser and Schuhhof, resigned as a shareholder and buying partner of the Merkur Shoe Group (MSG), a German buying group for shoe retailers. Leiser and Schuhhof will no longer make arrangements with MSG from spring/summer 2015. Schuhpark Fascies, Fritz ...
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Cole Haan has opened its first global flagship store based...
Cole Haan has opened its first global flagship store based on a new design in the Ginza district of Tokyo. In addition to a normal collection of shoes for men and women, it also offers some unique styles and the brand's new line of handbags on a total space of ...
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Timberland plans to reopen on Aug. 22 a completely revisited...
Timberland plans to reopen on Aug. 22 a completely revisited version of its global store on London's Regent Street. The new and more lifestyle-oriented design of the store will be rolled out to the new and refitted stores from next year on.
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Camper, the Spanish shoe brand, will launch a new premium...
Camper, the Spanish shoe brand, will launch a new premium banner of shoe stores in September, named Cartujano. The Fluxà family, owner of Camper, already created the brand in 1993 but the company never opened a single store. Four stores, offering shoes and accessories for men and women, will be ...
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Pikolinos has opened its third store in Mexico City. Inspired...
Pikolinos has opened its third store in Mexico City. Inspired by Mediterranean lifestyles, the flagship store is located in the Santa Fe shopping mall. The Spanish brand has also a presence in two big Mexican department stores, Liverpool and Palacio de Hierro.
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Pretty Ballerinas opened a mono-brand store in Berlin at the...
Pretty Ballerinas opened a mono-brand store in Berlin at the beginning of July after opening a mono-brand store in Rome in April. The company owns both stores. Pretty Ballerinas has 85 mono-brand stores worldwide. All the stores in Europe and in the U.S. are owned by the Spanish company. In ...
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Kennel & Schmenger (K&S) will open its ninth mono-brand store...
Kennel & Schmenger (K&S) will open its ninth mono-brand store in Düsseldorf this September. All its mono-brand stores in Germany are company-owned with its most recent one opened in Munich in May 2014. K & S is currently planning to cooperate with local partners in China for the establishment of ...
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Vagabond is planning to open a second single-brand store in...
Vagabond is planning to open a second single-brand store in Berlin by the end of next year, building up to a total of 35 mono-brand stores worldwide, most of them in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Vagabond recently opened a store in Cologne.
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As previously reported, Fly London is going to open its...
As previously reported, Fly London is going to open its first mono-brand store in the U.S. in September. The store will be run in cooperation with Fly London's distributor partner in the U.S., Bos. & Co. Kyaia, the Portuguese company that owns Fly London, set up a joint venture ...
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Aquazzura, the luxury shoe label from Italy, will open its...
Aquazzura, the luxury shoe label from Italy, will open its first flagship store in Florence in October in the historical Palazzo Corsini, near the Ponte Vecchio. It will be the only store worldwide, where Aquazzuro will present its full product range. The company's headquarters will also move to the Palazzo ...
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Spartoo, the French online shoe retailer, has launched a European...
Spartoo, the French online shoe retailer, has launched a European marketplace on its website. About 100 retailers from France and other countries have joined the initiative including Spart Position, Sojeans, Cuiropolis and Edisac. Spartoo has an active presence in 20 European countries. It boasts 14 million unique visitors per month ...
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After moving into the Belgian market with a bilingual website...
After moving into the Belgian market with a bilingual website last year, Sarenza is entering the Croatian market through its European internet platform, sarenza.eu. With sales in 26 countries, the French-based online shoe retailer reached sales of €150 million in 2013, 15 percent above the level of the previous year. ...
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Toms has opened its first European flagship store in Amsterdam....
Toms has opened its first European flagship store in Amsterdam. Measuring 95 square meters and located at 13 Runstraat, the boutique also offers its own sunglasses and Havaianas sandals as well as coffee. For each cup of coffee, it will donate one day of drinking water, in line with its ...
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Wortmann is setting up a new building close to its...
Wortmann is setting up a new building close to its head office in Detmold, Germany that will serve as a factory outlet for the general public with a net sales surface of nearly 800 square meters, opening around the end of this year. It will also have a storage space ...
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Working with a local partner, Paco Herrero will open the...
Working with a local partner, Paco Herrero will open the first 100-odd store corners in China in the second half of this year. The Spanish shoe brand plans to have about 200 stores in place by the end of 2015.
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Clarks will be supplying iPads in its stores to measure...
Clarks will be supplying iPads in its stores to measure its customers' feet. An appropriate measurement device has been already tested in 50 Clarks shoe stores in Britain and will be in introduced to an additional 468 Clarks stores in the U.K. in the course of this spring. The iPads ...
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The Crown Estate has allowed Hunter Boots to open its...
The Crown Estate has allowed Hunter Boots to open its first global flagship store on the classy Regent Street in London. It will occupy around 5,000 square feet of space at 83 Regent Street from next autumn. The Crown Estate manages properties on Regent Street worth £8.1 billion (€9.91bn-$13.59bn). It ...
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Flip Flop has announced a master franchise agreement with the...
Flip Flop has announced a master franchise agreement with the team behind Happy Toes Caribbean. The agreement calls for the establishment and development of at least 20 new shops throughout the islands. The first shop is planned to open in Aruba later this year. The agreement also covers the management ...
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Lahr Schuhe, which was purchasing shoes together with Fink Schuhe...
Lahr Schuhe, which was purchasing shoes together with Fink Schuhe + Sport before Fink filed for bankruptcy in January 2014, has found an investor. Fritz Schuhe + Sport will take over seven stores of the insolvent shoe retail company. Two months after the company filed for bankruptcy in February 2014, ...
