News Briefs Retail – Page 57
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Aldo has its sights set on France. The Canadian footwear...
Aldo has its sights set on France. The Canadian footwear and accessories retailer opened two stores in France in late 2011 – one in La Défense, west of Paris, and one on Rue de Rivoli in the capital. It plans to speed up its development and to have 50 shops ...
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Hermès has opened a shop for its Asian-inspired brand, Shang...
Hermès has opened a shop for its Asian-inspired brand, Shang Xia, on the Rue de Sèvres in Paris, opposite its local Hermès flagship store in the shopping neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It is only the second store for the brand, with the first one having been opened already in Shanghai. It ...
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Camper's new store in Rotterdam is meant to evoke an...
Camper's new store in Rotterdam is meant to evoke an aquarium, complete with a blue-centered color scheme. The Spanish company has 68 stores, 75 shop-in-shops and 12 outlet stores that it runs itself, and an addition 75 stores, 65 shop-in-shops and four outlets that are franchised. It operates in 42 ...
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Sperry Top-Sider's first New York store opened on Feb. 1...
Sperry Top-Sider's first New York store opened on Feb. 1 in the city's Flatiron District. In keeping with the brand's nautical flavor, the 1,700-square-foot store has a boathouse-like area where customers can check out the inventory stock. The store sells 100 styles of shoes for men, women and children.
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Clarks has opened its 14th location in India, an outlet...
Clarks has opened its 14th location in India, an outlet store in the Inorbit Mall in Hyderabad. It opened all 14 stores in the last year, and plans to continue the fast expansion with 20 new stores in India per year, with a goal of having 100 in the next ...
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Belle International opened 2,983 new retail locations in mainland China...
Belle International opened 2,983 new retail locations in mainland China last year, 1,100 of them in the fourth quarter. That brings the total number in mainland China to 14,950 outlets, all directly run by the Hong Kong footwear group. Most of them, 10,270, are dedicated to footwear, while the others ...
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Ghetz, distributor of Anatomic Gel shoes from Brazil for Europe...
Ghetz, distributor of Anatomic Gel shoes from Brazil for Europe and the U.S., got orders for 2,500 pairs from British in the two months leading up to Christmas through its new online shop. It plans to repeat the operation in the U.S. during the second half of 2012.
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An investment fund, Alven Capital, has injected 2.5 million Swiss...
An investment fund, Alven Capital, has injected 2.5 million Swiss francs (€2.0m-$2.7m) into what is described as the leading e-commerce site for footwear in Switzerland, koala.ch. Set up one year ago by two former officials of eBay, Valentin Cogels and Matthias Fröhlicher, koala.ch has attracted more than 600,000 visits in ...
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Sarenza.com, the French online shoe store, is planning to enter...
Sarenza.com, the French online shoe store, is planning to enter the Polish market during the first half of 2012, with a dedicated page in the Polish language. As part of a strategy to cover the whole European market by 2015, the company has already registered the Sarenza.eu domain for a ...
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Zalando will be opening a permanent outlet store in Berlin...
Zalando will be opening a permanent outlet store in Berlin in the spring of 2012. It will sell fashion products, footwear and accessories to registered members only. The sales area will encompass about 1,000 square meters on three levels. The company decided on a restricted shopping model based on its ...
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Javari, the virtual shoe store launched by Amazon in various...
Javari, the virtual shoe store launched by Amazon in various European countries one year ago, is adding handbags and other accessories to its offer, which will soon be expanded further to include other shoe brands. The website is now offering free delivery all over Europe and, for any purchase of ...
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Like Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London or soon...
Like Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London or soon also La Rinascente in Milan, the biggest department store operator in Switzerland, Manor Group, has inaugurated a new shoe floor as part of the €16 million renovation of its flagship store in Basel, where LED lights play an important role. ...
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Dr. Martens opened its first standalone store in Scotland a...
Dr. Martens opened its first standalone store in Scotland a couple of weeks ago in Glasgow. The 2,000-square-foot pop-up shop is the biggest one the brand has in the U.K., carrying its full collection of footwear, apparel and accessories. The concrete flooring and industrial lighting were meant to evoke the ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has opened its first store in Colombia, located...
Salvatore Ferragamo has opened its first store in Colombia, located in the capital city of Bogotá. The company now has 57 doors in Latin America. Sales in the region grew by 33.3 percent in the first nine months of this year, but they still represent only 3.8 percent of the ...
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Flip Flop will open its third mono-brand store in Europe...
Flip Flop will open its third mono-brand store in Europe by the end of February 2012. The store will be located in the city center of Cologne. At the moment, Flip Flop, the brand owned by Bernd Hummel, owns and manages stores in Amsterdam and in Berlin. During the next ...
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Neosens, a sister of brand of Art, has opened a...
Neosens, a sister of brand of Art, has opened a shop-in-shop in the Tascón shoe store located in the La Maquinista shopping center of Barcelona. The Art Company has a fully decorated store featuring both brands on the rue de Rennes in Paris and another one in Milan, on via ...
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Christian Louboutin is launching an online shop for Europe in...
Christian Louboutin is launching an online shop for Europe in early 2012, just in time for the 20th anniversary of its first brick-and-mortar store, which opened in Paris. Customers can select from the overall spring/summer 2012 collection and also browse styles that will be available exclusively via the European online ...
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Christian Louboutin will open the first of several stores in...
Christian Louboutin will open the first of several stores in India at the beginning of 2012. It will be housed in the DLF Emporio luxury shopping mall of New Delhi.
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Bearpaw Footwear has opened its first store, in the style...
Bearpaw Footwear has opened its first store, in the style of a rustic ski lodge. Called “The Summit,” the store is located near the company's corporate office at Citrus Heights, California, in an area owned by the company's chief executive, Tom Romeo. He wants the whole area to become a ...
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Crocs has inaugurated a new, more flexible and more interactive...
Crocs has inaugurated a new, more flexible and more interactive format for its stores in the U.S. It gives customers the possibility to view the enlarged collection of 250 styles proposed by the brand. The new concept has been launched at three locations in Bloomington, Minnesota; Austin, Texas; and Durham, ...
