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Deichmann donates over a million face masks to Caritas
Deichmann, Europe’s largest shoe retailer, has donated over 1 million face masks to the charity Caritas in Berlin. The masks will be donated to people in need of care, socially disadvantaged or homeless in the German regions of Berlin, Brandenburg and Western Pomerania.
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ANWR Schuh appoints new product manager for women’s shoes
ANWR Schuh has appointed Klaus Pommering as product manager for women’s shoes. He will be reporting directly to Albert Mayer, head of purchasing and product management. Pommering, 53, was previously purchasing manager for women’s shoes at the Leiser Group, the German shoe retailer with about 40 stores that filed for ...
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Two Ten faces a huge increase in demand for aid
The American footwear sector’s charity Two Ten Foundation is receiving applications for financial assistance at a rate that is 10 times greater than at any other point in its history as people find themselves out of work due to the coronavirus, Footwearbiz reported. The foundation was set up in 1939 ...
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Yoox Net-a-Porter Group reopens distribution centers
After Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (YNPG) had to close down its online stores, Net-a-Porter, Mr Porter, The Outnet and Yoox, at the end of March, Yoox, The Outnet and Mr Porter started to work again at the end of April and Net-a-Porter took orders again from last week. Deliveries might take ...
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Alibaba offers fashion labels an outlet for excess stock
Alibaba launched a new service for retailers. Called Luxury Soho, the platform is for mark-downs in the way that the group’s Tmall Luxury Pavilion is for inaugural collections. Through it, fashion labels can manage inventory while targeting specific markets, notably Millennials and Gen Z in China’s secondary cities. According to ...
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Superga opens first flagship store in Germany
Superga, part of BasicNet, the parent company of Kappa, K-Way, Superga and other brands, opened a new flagship store in Berlin on May 2. The store covers 80 square meters and is located in the Bikini shopping mall. Superga had already opened a pop-up store in the popular shopping mall ...
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Cat Footwear has a new global brand president
Cat Footwear, a division of Wolverine Worldwide, has appointed Chip Coe as its global brand president. He will be reporting to Chris Hufnagel, who belongs to Wolverine’s executive team and is global brand president of Merrell. Coe has been with Wolverine since 2010, serving as president of the Chaco brand ...
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Zalando opens new outlet stores, plans five extra outlets by 2022
Zalando has opened a 1,400-square-meter outlet store in Mannheim, bringing the total to nine in Germany. The opening was planned for April but was postponed after the recent lockdown in the country and the subsequent gradual reopening that was initially limited to stores of up to 800 square meters. The ...
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Le Coq Sportif and its parent book a loss for 2019
Airesis, the Swiss holding company of Le Coq Sportif and Movement Skis, reported a net loss of CHF 11.4 million (€10.8m-£11.8m) for 2019, compared with a loss of CHF 891,000 in the prior year. Consolidated revenues rose by 3 percent to CHF 157.5 million (€149.7m-£162.6m). Le Coq Sportif, in ...
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Paris, Milan take to digital catwalk
The Paris and Milan fashion weeks for the presentation of spring/summer 2021 menswear collections will be held digitally this year, with Paris preceding Milan and inverting the traditional international fashion show calendar as presentations go online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, ...
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Xingye Leather joins Material Exchange
The Chinese tanning group Xingye Leather has become a member of Material Exchange, an online platform for the procurement of material for footwear and fashion companies. Based in Stockholm, Material Exchange was launched in 2016. It was rolled out in the U.S. in 2018 and in China in 2019. At ...
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ANWR Schuh launches new social media campaign
ANWR Schuh, the German buying group for shoe retailers, has launched a social media campaign to create awareness of independent shoe retailers. The campaign, with the slogan #LocalShoeLove, was started on Facebook and retailers are invited to share the campaign with clients in order to increase viewings. The social media ...
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British Footwear Association launches online “Shoe School”
The British Footwear Association (BFA) has announced the launch of an online “Shoe School,” designed for people who work with footwear but have no formal training in shoe manufacturing. The training covers subject areas like design, footwear and sizing, materials, components, ethics and sustainability in footwear, among others.
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U.S., Brazilian footwear industries suffer severe job losses
Both the U.S. and Brazil have seen large job losses in the shoe sector amid the spread of the coronavirus both in the two countries and globally. Data from the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America showed that estimated employment in the U.S. shoe industry, including manufacturing, repair, wholesale, distribution ...
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Keen switches part of production in Thailand to face masks
Keen Footwear has converted a production line at one of its factories in Thailand to manufacture reusable and washable face masks. As part of its “Together we can help” campaign, the American outdoor footwear brand has donated 100,000 masks worldwide to people working in the retail industry. In Germany alone, ...
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Munich reopens 5 Spanish stores
The Catalan footwear group Munich reopened five out of its 20 stores on May 11, as Spain partially lifted a nationwide lockdown. Munich closed its stores on March 14, when the government introduced a state of emergency to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The stores are open from 11.00 am to ...
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March shoe and clothing retail sales down 38.9% in Eurozone
Retail sales of clothing and footwear fell by 38.9 percent year-on-year in March across the Eurozone, according to the statistics office Eurostat, due to the widespread retail lockdowns across the region. The drop in total eurozone retail sales amounted to 11.2 percent, including a decline of 23.1 percent in the ...
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JD’s takeover of Footasylum is blocked
After a more in-depth review of JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition last year of the Footasylum chain in the U.K., Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on May 6 its decision to block it, arguing that it would lead to a “substantial lessening of competition nationally,” with higher prices and ...
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Leomil to launch a Baby Shark collection
Through a licensing deal arranged by the WildBrain CPLG agency, Leomil has established a partnership with Nickelodeon, the American television channel, and Pinkfong, the brand that produced Baby Shark, to launch a new Baby Shark-branded collection. The first products will be available for the back-to-school season in Europe and the ...
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Schuhe.de appoints two new product managers
Schuhe.de, the ANWR group’s online platform for shoe retailers, appointed two new product managers. Arlett Ruhtz will from now on be responsible for marketing, communications and public relations. She was previously responsible for the conception, coordination and strategic development of communication with end consumers. She will also take care of ...
