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Ferragamo appoints 2 new board members
Salvatore Ferragamo’s board has appointed Frédéric Biousse and Annalisa Loustau Elia as independent directors. They replace Marinella Soldi and Micaela le Divelec Lemmi, who resigned on July 27 and Sept. 7, respectively. Biousse and Loustau Elia will remain in office until the company’s next shareholder meeting. Biousse is the co-founder ...
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Vibram’s “Repair if you care” campaign continues
Vibram’s “Repair if you care” campaign, which focuses on the concept of reuse and repair as a sustainable approach, is entering a second round. The company, for which repair has played a central role for the past 80 years, underlines in it once again the importance of reprocessing shoes and ...
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Keen launches sneakers made from agricultural waste
Keen Footwear has unveiled a proprietary manufacturing process that uses agricultural waste to create what it claims to be the industry’s first sneakers with plant-based soles made without chemical solvents. The “Field to Foot” (F2F) sneakers are part of the Detox The Planet initiative and were developed by the Keen ...
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Faguo opens ‘eco-conscious’ store in Paris
Faguo’s new store at the Montparnasse train station in Paris purports to manifest “the most eco-conscious retail concept in France.” It follows similar stores in Amiens, Toulouse and elsewhere in Paris. Yet another such store is slated to open next month in Dijon. The French design firm behind the development, ...
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Transport industry calls on governments to ease Covid-19 restrictions
The representatives of the global transport industry called on governments to act rapidly to avoid further disruption to the global supply chain caused by Covid-19 related restrictions. ”The impact of nearly two years’ worth of strain, placed particularly upon maritime and road transport workers, but also impacting air crews, is ...
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Caleres hires a general manager for Allen Edmonds
The U.S. footwear company Caleres has appointed David Law as senior vice president and general manager of Allen Edmonds. He was previously in charge of men’s footwear at Vida Shoes International. “David is an accomplished omnichannel retail executive with over 15 years of extensive experience in various buying, planning and ...
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Everlane hires head of Ugg
The American apparel and footwear company Everlane has appointed Andrea O’Donnell, president of Deckers Brands in charge of the footwear brand Ugg, as its chief executive, replacing the founder Michael Preysman, who will become executive chairman. Both appointments are effective on Jan. 1, 2022, but O’Donnell will join the company ...
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Hotter uses BASF’s Infinergy in comfort shoe range
The British footwear retailer Hotter Shoes has struck a deal to use BASF’s Infinergy material in its range of comfort shoes. Hotter has included the material in more than 41 styles to complement the brand’s own Cushion+ technology and is aiming the collection at its core audience of over 55s, ...
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Pakerson sees 2021 sales up 25%
Pakerson, the Italian manufacturer of high-end men’s shoes, expects 2021 sales to rise by 25 percent after falling about 30 percent last year because of the impact of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the end of August, sales were up by 19 percent. The company generates 90 percent ...
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Brazilian firms to generate $5.4m in orders at Micam
The 18 Brazilian footwear brands present the Micam trade fair, which was held in Milan on Sept. 19-21, are expected to generate over $5.4 million in revenues, thanks to deals that were closed during the show or that they began negotiating during the event, according the to the Brazilian footwear ...
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Grendene to build a new plant
The board of the Brazilian footwear manufacturer Grendene has approved a new factory in Crato, in the state of Ceará. Construction of the 10,800-square-meter manufacturing facility is planned for 2022. The plant will cost 30 million reais (€4.7m-$5.5m) and generate 1,000 jobs. It will increase Grendene’s production capacity by 500,000 ...
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Style Capital invests in LuisaViaRoma
The Italian private equity firm Style Capital is investing €130 million, partially through a capital increase, in the Florence-based online multibrand retailer LuisaViaRoma. The deal is expected to close this year and give Style Capital a 40 percent stake in LuisaViaRoma, while the retailer’s chairman and CEO, Andrea Panconesi, will ...
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Zalando invests in Infinited Fiber
Zalando has joined Adidas, H&M and an investment arm of the Bestseller Group in a round of financing to help Infinited Fiber Company of Finland to build a facility for the commercial production of its biodegradable fiber, called Infinna. The company’s technology converts textile waste and other cellulose-based raw material ...
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Skechers wins Energy Lights lawsuit
A District Court for the state of Illinois has dismissed with prejudice a proposed class action suit launched by Rikki Guajardo in May 2019. She claimed that her child had suffered pain and burns when Skechers’ Energy Lights sneakers heated up. She accused the company of deceptive trade practices and ...
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Asos to invest in a tech hub in Belfast
The British online fashion retailer Asos is planning to invest £14 million (€16.2m-$18.9m) to create a new tech hub in Belfast. The site is scheduled to be operational early 2022 and create 184 jobs over three years, with 52 hirings in the first year.
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CCC buys and sells a 10% stake in Eobuwie
On Sept. 23, the Polish footwear group CCC bought a 10 percent stake in its unit Eobuwie from MKK3 and subsequently transferred to A&R the ownership of the acquired block of shares based on a disposal agreement reached on June 22, 2021. Following the transaction, CCC Shoes & Bags owns ...
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U.K. consumer confidence weakens in September
In its latest U.K. Consumer Confidence Survey conducted amongst a sample of 2,000 individuals aged 16+, GfK market researchers see significant anxiety about the possible cost of living in the U.K. that leads to a hesitant buying climate and lower expectations for the future. All scores went down, with the ...
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Canada Goose to start selling footwear on Nov. 12
Canada Goose announced the widely expected market launch of its first footwear line on Nov. 12, starting with two luxury-priced snow and hiking boots offered at suggested retail prices of $750 and $1,295. The new product launch follows six months of testing by a group of 40 men and women ...
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News briefsThe athletic shoe market dipped by 8.2% in 2020
The athletic footwear market has been performing generally better than the market for sports apparel and sports equipment in the last decade. Apparently, the opposite happened last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as many consumers didn’t buy a new pair of sneakers, except for running or exercizing, as they ...
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Nike cuts guidance as supply chain woes worsen in Q1
The Nike group cut its guidance for fiscal year 2022 despite strong consumer demand, as it warned of inventory shortages over the next few quarters in the face of continuing supply chain headwinds that already took their toll on its sales performance in the first quarter ended Aug. 31. Nike’s ...
