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Lorenzo Moretti has resigned as chief executive of Office, the...
Lorenzo Moretti has resigned as chief executive of Office, the British shoe retail chain owned by Truthworths of South Africa, after a year in the post. Kerry van der Merwe, chief operating officer, is temporarily taking the role of managing director. After its recent refinancing, Office is planning to close ...
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François Feijoo is leaving as president and chief executive of...
François Feijoo is leaving as president and chief executive of the French Eram chain of shoe shops, following an independent review of its operations. Luc Biotteau, a member of the family that owns the Eram group, will take over the management, as he had already done with another subsidiary, Mellow ...
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On its inaugural Checkerboard Day, which took place on Nov....
On its inaugural Checkerboard Day, which took place on Nov. 21, Vans put its headquarters on pause, donated about $1 million to Imagination.org and announced the Vans Checkerboard Fund, which will support charities worldwide that “enable creative expression through Vans' core pillars of action sports, art, music and street culture.” ...
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In Cambodia, exports of footwear and travel goods rose by...
In Cambodia, exports of footwear and travel goods rose by 88 percent to $385 million in the first nine months, thanks to preferential duty-free entry obtained under the U.S.'s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), according to a local newspaper, the Phom Phen Post.
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Shoe-D-Vision has hired Christian Hartmann as buying director for the...
Shoe-D-Vision has hired Christian Hartmann as buying director for the Danish retail organization, effective on Dec. 16. Hartmann, 53, was most recently buying manager at the Salling Group, which has more than 1,500 shops across four countries with over 53,000 employees. They include Bilka hypermarkets, Føtex and Netto supermarkets as ...
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Joya and Kybun, the Swiss brands of comfort shoes, have...
Joya and Kybun, the Swiss brands of comfort shoes, have developed a common retail concept. Matthias Müller – son of Karl Müller, the founder of the MBT brand of comfort shoes – will be managing the recently introduced retail concept as well as directing the new joint venture Kybun Joya ...
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Trussardi has chosen United Brands Company (UBC) for its new...
Trussardi has chosen United Brands Company (UBC) for its new sneaker collection. UBC will produce men's and women's sneakers for the Italian fashion brand's spring/summer 2020 collection. The shoes will be available in Trussardi stores, as well as in multibrand and specialized shops. Based in the Italian city of Vicenza, ...
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Famous Footwear, the brand owned by Caleres, opened a flagship...
Famous Footwear, the brand owned by Caleres, opened a flagship store in Herald Square in New York City on Nov. 15. It is the largest of the chain's 32 stores in greater New York, with its 8,400 square feet divided over two floors, one of which is devoted entirely to ...
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Roger Vivier, the brand owned by Tod's, has launched its...
Roger Vivier, the brand owned by Tod's, has launched its first line of jewelry. The label picked the unibrowed Anglo-Cypriot model Sophia Hadjipanteli as its ambassador for the line. The collection is produced at Italian workshops and retails at prices between €230 and €680 apiece. The spring/summer 2020 collection will ...
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Brandpool will be marketing the Kangaroos Blue, Rooskickx and Flip...
Brandpool will be marketing the Kangaroos Blue, Rooskickx and Flip Flop brands in Switzerland as of January 2020. Bernd Hummel, the German company that holds the license to sell the brands. The new partnership started with the pre-order season for the autumn/winter 2020 collection. Every year, Brandpool sells more than ...
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The Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has closed his only...
The Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has closed his only standalone store in New York, situated on West 54th Street, but it will have a new one at 717 Madison Avenue soon, according to Footwear News. The original store was opened in 1982 and Carrie Bradshaw, the main character of ...
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On the occasion of Black Friday last month, Masaltos.com launched...
On the occasion of Black Friday last month, Masaltos.com launched a new women's brand, Olivia Nature, with shoes designed for comfort and environmental friendliness. Their “leather” is plant-based, their soles are made of biodegradable polyurethane, they contain no metals, and they are recyclable. The new line developed by the Spanish ...
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Kavat, the Swedish brand best known for its kids' leather...
Kavat, the Swedish brand best known for its kids' leather shoes made in Europe, will launch its men's shoe collection at Pitti Uomo in Florence next month. Starting with the spring/summer 2020 season, the Swedish family company is placing more focus on the development of its men's and women's lines ...
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Europe's largest shoe retailer, Deichmann, and Wortmann have been judged...
Europe's largest shoe retailer, Deichmann, and Wortmann have been judged to be among the 445 best companies in Germany for employee training. Deichmann has a corporate policy that treats its 16,000 employees as the most important partners in the company. It offers opportunities for personal development to its staff: employees ...
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Thomas Gammelgaard Frederiksen, chief executive of Shoe the Bear, and...
Thomas Gammelgaard Frederiksen, chief executive of Shoe the Bear, and Jakob Fuglsang, who founded the Danish company, have both resigned. Thomas Skare Viller, chairman, has become the CEO. Shoe the Bear is part of the Danish Soya Concept Group. The company has recently been advertising for staff, including a new ...
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Barbara Rybka, senior vice president of global digital operations at...
Barbara Rybka, senior vice president of global digital operations at Gucci, is leaving the company after nine years, according to fashionmagazine.it. She was responsible for the relaunch of Gucci's website in 2015. Two other top managers have left the company in the last few weeks. Jacopo Venturini, who took responsibility ...
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Rihanna, the famous Barbadian singer, has chosen the Jordanian-Romanian designer...
Rihanna, the famous Barbadian singer, has chosen the Jordanian-Romanian designer Amina Muaddi to create the footwear for its Fenty label, where she is partnering with LVMH. Muaddi will continue to work on the shoe collection of a French fashion designer, Alexandre Vauthier.
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The famous French Babybotte brand of children's shoes has been...
The famous French Babybotte brand of children's shoes has been acquired by an unnamed Thai investor who is not involved in the shoe sector for €920,000, according to Jean-Pierre Bidegain, a now retired member of the family that used to own it. Babybotte is one of the brands that belonged ...
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Under the auspices of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC), nine...
Under the auspices of the European Footwear Confederation (CEC), nine European footwear technology centers have agreed to join forces to further footwear research and knowledge creation. The members of the network are CTC (France), CTCP (Portugal), CTCR (Spain), the footwear research center of Tomas Bata University (Czech Republic), Inescop (Spain), ...
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The Association of Footwear and Related Industries of La Rioja...
The Association of Footwear and Related Industries of La Rioja (AICCOR) and the Footwear Technology Center of La Rioja (CTCR) have elected Laborio Sevilla to a four-year term as president. Sevilla is managing director of Nuevo Milenio, the family-owned footwear group behind the Victoria and Wamba brands. He belongs to ...
