News Briefs Retail – Page 56
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The French group Longchamp has opened its first store in...
The French group Longchamp has opened its first store in Milan. The shop is located in Via della Spiga and has a section dedicated to footwear, a product range that the group aims to develop along with ready-to-wear. Longchamp has 236 stores and 1,800 wholesale clients and plans to expand ...
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Grendene has opened its first Melissa flagship store outside Brazil...
Grendene has opened its first Melissa flagship store outside Brazil in the SoHo district of New York. Located on Greene Street, it is inspired by the “Galeria” of the Melissa store in São Paulo. Other openings are envisaged in Europe and Asia in the next months, possibly including a store ...
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Mellow Yellow has opened its first Japanese store in the...
Mellow Yellow has opened its first Japanese store in the Omotesando district of Tokyo. A Japanese actress and the 2006 Miss Universe, Chibana Kurara, participated in the inauguration.
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Liebeskind of Berlin continues to open new shops for its...
Liebeskind of Berlin continues to open new shops for its products, including an expanding footwear line, through franchisees. A sixth one has just opened in Paris. Others are due to open later this year in Salzburg, Graz and New York.
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After a year in a temporary location, Timberland has now...
After a year in a temporary location, Timberland has now reopened its concept store on Norrlandsgatan in Stockholm. Since 1997, the company has operated a store at the same place, but was forced to move temporarily, while the building was converted into a mall. The new store design features a ...
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Clarks will be selling its product range for children online...
Clarks will be selling its product range for children online for the first time from May this year. The company's online business is huge. The news caused quite a stir in the international shoe industry and during the GDS show held in Düsseldorf last month.
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Peter Kaiser launched its own online shop prior to the...
Peter Kaiser launched its own online shop prior to the GDS trade show, in order to promote the brand online. The entire range of Peter Kaiser products will be available on the company's website, including a selection of bags. POS integration is offered to specialist retailers and orders are then ...
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Christian Louboutin has expanded its e-commerce operation to include a...
Christian Louboutin has expanded its e-commerce operation to include a European boutique, adding to the sites it already has in the U.S. and Canada. It carries this spring's men's and women's collections and the new 20th anniversary capsule line; the latter will be available in Europe online only. Customers have ...
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Padders recently invested in its e-commerce site and managed to...
Padders recently invested in its e-commerce site and managed to increase internet sales by 55 percent in 2011 compared with the previous year. The website has been restructured from a mail-order based system to an electronic and web-based system. Padders, market leader for comfort shoes in the U.K., recorded a ...
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Zalando is widening the range of products sold on its...
Zalando is widening the range of products sold on its website once more by adding home textiles and accessories, including the branded offerings in this segment of fashion brands such as Escada, Esprit, Joop! and Tom Tailor. This section of the Berlin-based e-commerce portal, which started off with shoes in ...
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Spartoo, the online footwear retailer, has been named one of...
Spartoo, the online footwear retailer, has been named one of Europe's fastest-growing online companies by Internet Retailer, a U.S. publication. The company grew by 70 percent in 2011, reaching sales of almost €100 million with 1.5 million pairs of shoes. The company said that this year it hopes to reach ...
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Sarenza, the main competitor of Spartoo in France, is planning...
Sarenza, the main competitor of Spartoo in France, is planning to enter the Polish market shortly, while launching a new e-commerce platform - Sarenza.eu - that would cover all the European markets for which it doesn't have a dedicated website. Somewhat like Spartoo, Sarenza reports a 60 percent increase in ...
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Rocky Brands is extending the availability of its products online...
Rocky Brands is extending the availability of its products online to more than 90 countries around the world. Customers will be able to order in their own languages and currencies at guaranteed prices after customs duties and taxes from the localized websites of the company's brands, including Georgia Boot and ...
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Macy's plans to set up what it is calling the...
Macy's plans to set up what it is calling the world's largest shoe floor at its store in New York City. The 63,000-square-foot space will offer more than 300,000 pairs of shoes and including luxury shoe shops and a designer shoe salon. The department store plans will expand the current ...
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Staged in a black and white setting at the top...
Staged in a black and white setting at the top of Milan's Pirelli skyscraper, this time the Micam Awards went to A&Y Marka of Turkey and to an Italian retailer, Cappelletto. A&Y runs a total of 218 shoe and fashion shops in Turkey and Lebanon under seven different banners including ...
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Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting...
Coolway has opened its first flagship store in Scandinavia, setting up on Karl Johans Gate 13, a pedestrian shopping street in Oslo. The brand has been developed by the Mayordomo family of Spain, working with Marius Furomo. If it proves to be a success, more stores are planned in Stockholm ...
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Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening...
Payless ShoeSource is expanding in Asia with new stores opening this year in Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Emart, a unit of Shinsegae Group of Seoul, will work with Payless to open stores in Korea, and Central Marketing Group, owned by Central Group of Bangkok, will introduce Payless to Thailand and ...
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Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in...
Kangnai, the Chinese footwear brand, has a big year in 2011. It made 11 million pairs of high- and medium-end shoes and opened 3,000 stores, some own retail and some franchises. It started its expansion outside China with some of the stores, and for the year reports a 47 percent ...
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El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte...
El Naturalista has embarked on its project with El Corte Inglés, opening its first shop-in-shop in the chain's department store in Bilbao. Thanks to new initiatives such as this, the Spanish footwear brand hopes to report 17 percent growth this year; last year it grew by 12 percent.
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Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a...
Prada continues to invest in new stores while opening a revamped and expanded flagship store in Paris. Located on the prestigious Faubourg Saint-Honoré, near Hermès, the latter is being reopened on 1,900 square meters after two years of reconstruction. In the U.S., the brand has opened a 700-m² store in ...
