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U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok from Sept. 20
The U.S. Department of Commerce said that from Sept. 20 the Chinese mobile applications WeChat and TikTok will be prohibited in the U.S. to safeguard national security. “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and ...
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French government remains opposed to EU, Mercosur trade deal
The French government remains opposed to a trade deal between the European Union and the countries of the South American trading block Mercosur, because of the “major” issue of deforestation in the Amazon region. The French government set three conditions to continue talks with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, which ...
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News briefsKeen donates up to $20,000 to wildfire relief efforts
While devastating fires in the states of Oregon, Washington and California on the U.S. west coast threaten and destroy lives, property and nature, the footwear brand Keen has decided to donate 1 percent of its U.S. sales from keenfootwear.com, up to a total of $20,000, to relief programs. The money ...
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Russian shoe market nearly 3 times larger than previously estimated
The recent introduction of mandatory tagging of footwear in Russia has shown that up to 1.3 billion pairs of shoes are sold in the country on average per year. This is nearly three times more than previous official estimates, said Denis Manturov, the Russian industry and trade minister The tagging ...
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Gabor has 500,000 pairs in stock for autumn/winter season
Gabor has around 500,000 pairs of shoes in stock for the current autumn/winter season to enable retailers to reorder at short notice. Orders can be made continuously through the B2B online shop. Telephone orders are also possible.
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Ferragamo posts €86 million net loss in H1
Salvatore Ferragamo posted a net loss of €86 million in the first half of 2020, down from a profit of €60 million a year earlier due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. As previously reported, sales amounted to €377 million, declining by 46.6 percent year-on-year on a reported basis ...
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Amazon hires extra 100,000 people in U.S., Canada
Amazon is hiring an additional 100,000 people in the U.S. and Canada on top of 33,000 corporate and technology jobs announced last week. The roles offer a starting wage of at least $15 per hour, and in select cities the online retailer is offering sign-on bonuses up to $1,000 ...
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Ugg sponsors art exhibition in L.A.
Ugg is sponsoring the opening weekend of the Hammer Museum’s “Made in L.A. 2020,” an exhibition organized in partnership with The Huntington, the combination library, museum and botanical gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of San Marino. This fifth edition of the biennial will run from autumn through the end ...
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Camper names Achilles Ion Gabriel global creative director
The Spanish shoe maker Camper has appointed Achilles Ion Gabriel as its global creative director. In 2019, the Finnish shoe designer was named creative director of the company’s sub-brand CamperLab. His first Camperlab collection was presented in January and has been available in the stores since the end of August. ...
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News briefsSuzanne McKenna manages Clarks brand
Suzanne McKenna was appointed managing director of C. & J. Clark International in August and is in charge of developing the core Clarks brand in all markets. She reports to the company’s chief executive Giorgio Presca, the former head of Geox and Golden Goose. McKenna was previously global head of ...
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News briefsCrocs sees Q3 sales up by 10%
Crocs expects third-quarter revenues to rise by about 10 percent compared to $312.8 million in the third quarter of 2019 thanks to ”exceptional consumer demand and strong sell throughs,” said Andrew Rees, president and chief executive officer. “We expect revenue growth of approximately 10% in the third quarter and anticipate ...
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Vivobarefoot obtains B Corp certification
Vivobarefoot has obtained B Corporation certification, which is granted to businesses that “meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose,” according to B Lab, a non-profit organization that manages the certification scheme. Vivobarefoot was founded by its chief ...
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Shoe Zone CEO and chairman increase their stakes
Anthony Smith, the chief executive of Shoe Zone, and Charles Smith, the company’s chairman, have increased their stakes in the British footwear retailer by buying the shares owned by Jeremy Sharman, a non‐executive director of the company who has decided to leave the board after holding a seat for nine ...
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Buffalo beefs up its sales team
Buffalo, the German footwear brand acquired by Deichmann in October 2016, has hired three new sales representatives for the German and Austrian markets. Torben-Friis Steffen will oversee the East/West region in Germany, Klaus Kaiser will cover Southern Germany and Austria and Magnus von Dobbeler will be responsible for customers in ...
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Tamaris wins German Brand Award
Tamaris has won the German Design Council’s annual German Brand Award in the “Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation” category for its Fashletics collection. The brand has credited the ad agency Men at Work for its “conceptual support.” Marlena Hanke, head of creation at Tamaris, describes Fashletics as a “combination ...
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German shoe chain Dielmann seeks investors
On Sept. 1, the Darmstadt District Court opened creditor protection proceedings for the local footwear chain Schuhhaus Dielmann and the sports retailer Sporthaus Robert Hübner. Self-administration was decided for both companies. The previous managements stepped down from both companies in June with the application of so-called protective shield proceedings. The ...
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News briefsAra Shoes wants to modernize operations and cut jobs
Due to the coronavirus crisis, the German company Ara Shoes wants to accelerate the restructuring process it started in early 2020. This will include a workforce reduction at the Langenfeld site in order to compensate for the loss of sales this year and the negative forecast for the next two ...
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Li & Fung appoints chief customer officer
Li & Fung of Hong Kong has appointed Deepika Rana to the new post of chief customer officer. A 17-year veteran of at the international sourcing group, Rana will retain the titles of president of supply chain solutions, president of the executive office, and executive vice president and country director ...
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Ecco wins German Design Award for two models
Ecco has won the German Design Council’s annual German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its Biom 2.0 trail shoe and its Exowrap all-terrain sandal. The competition for the awards came from more than 5,400 projects from 63 countries. The Biom 2.0 is a hybrid urban and ...
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News briefsAllbirds enters South Korea
Allbirds, the Californian brand of sustainable footwear, has entered the South Korea market. The brand was created in 2016 by Joey Zwillinger and Tim Brown with one model, the Wool Runner, which uses superfine merino wool from New Zealand. Allbirds said that it had planned to enter the Korean market ...
