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London Sole, the owner of the shoe brand French Sole,...
London Sole, the owner of the shoe brand French Sole, has bought the Bennetts department store Bennetts in Derby, which had been declared insolvent in February. French Sole specializes in the retailing of ballet flats and holds trademarks in every country in the world except the U.S. French Sole has stores ...
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Camper, the Spanish shoe brand, will be launching a small...
Camper, the Spanish shoe brand, will be launching a small shoe collection together with Ecoalf, the Spanish fashion label, this month. Camper wants to reduce the usage of new plastic fibers to almost zero by 2022. The brand also aims to become climate-neutral. Ecoalf is using recycled plastic bottles, used tires, fishing ...
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Crocs has teamed up with Vera Bradley, the luggage and...
Crocs has teamed up with Vera Bradley, the luggage and handbag brand, on a colorful collaborative shoe collection. The limited-edition collection features four Crocs models – the Classic Clog, Sloane Slide, Freesail Clog and Kadee Flat – available in three patterns channeling Vera Bradley aesthetics - Mint Flowers, Fireworks Paisley ...
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Schuh Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail...
Schuh Mücke, the big German shoe and sporting goods retail chain within the ANWR Group, has reported a decrease in sales of 6.5 percent to €97.2 million for 2018, as compared to the previous year. Sales increased by 6.7 percent in 2017 as compared to 2016. The sales figure for ...
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The family-owned Kienast Group has won a bidding race for...
The family-owned Kienast Group has won a bidding race for a strategic investment in the insolvent Schuhpark Fascies chain of shoe shops in Germany. On June 30, the district court of Münster repealed the chain's bankruptcy proceeding, and the creditors of Schuhpark Fascies have now approved the investment from Kienast. As part of ...
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Flip Flop, the German shoe brand of Bernd Hummel, is...
Flip Flop, the German shoe brand of Bernd Hummel, is putting out a special model replicating the design of the Mercedes X-Class series. It can be ordered through the online store of Mercedes-Benz.
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Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee of Kangaroos, has encouraged customers...
Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee of Kangaroos, has encouraged customers to donate their sneakers to homeless people by delivering them until July 16 to any of four stores: in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Munich. The action was coordinated together with the Sneaker Freaker magazine, the Seek show in Berlin and ...
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The companies belonging to the Italian footwear cluster of the...
The companies belonging to the Italian footwear cluster of the Riviera del Brenta, near Venice, generated overall revenues of €2,087 million in 2018, contributing 20.7 percent of the overall turnover of the Italian shoe industry, according to the local trade association. The district has 553 companies, which employ more than ...
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The big Chinese Huajian Group, which has been operating in...
The big Chinese Huajian Group, which has been operating in Ethiopia since 2011, is reportedly planning to invest $100 million in the construction of new shoe manufacturing and coffee processing factories in the country's Jimma Industrial Park. An agreement signed in May with the Ethiopian government will also see Huajian ...
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Thomas Camille has been made chief executive of Pataugas, the...
Thomas Camille has been made chief executive of Pataugas, the French footwear brand previously owned by Vivarte, with plans to focus on capsule collections, co-branding and expansions of the distribution network and international e-commerce. Camille has previously held chief-executive posts at the apparel firms Leoca, ElevenParis and Celioclub. He was ...
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BASF is investing to strengthen its presence in the footwear...
BASF is investing to strengthen its presence in the footwear industry. The company has recently expanded its Footwear Development Center in Italy, and has opened a new center in Thailand. Both facilities feature new machinery with direct injection molding technology. Most recently, BASF has opened a new 2,000-square-foot Footwear Development ...
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Balmain has launched its first collection of leather sneakers. The...
Balmain has launched its first collection of leather sneakers. The Paris-based fashion house, which is controlled by Mayhoola for Investments, believes that the entry into the new market will lead to a double-digit growth in 2019, after increasing its turnover from €136 million in 2016 to €180-185 million in 2018. ...
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Farfetch has appointed Kshitij Kumar and Holli Rogers to the...
Farfetch has appointed Kshitij Kumar and Holli Rogers to the newly created roles of chief data officer and chief brand officer, respectively. In his new role as chief data officer, Kshitij Kumar is expected to drive forward the company's use of artificial intelligence and data science. He joins from Zalando, ...
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Tretorn, the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, has appointed Magnus...
Tretorn, the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, has appointed Magnus Månsson as its new chief executive. Most recently, from May 2017 to June this year, he served as chief executive at Gina Tricot, the Swedish fashion chain. Prior to that, he was chief executive of Nelly, the fashion e-tailer. He ...
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Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently...
Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently created position of sales and business development director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Scandinavia. Simultaneously, Perry Laukens was appointed to the newly created position of sales and business director for the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and nine ...
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Zalando has announced the construction of its first Dutch logistics...
Zalando has announced the construction of its first Dutch logistics center in the Bleiswijk business park, near Rotterdam. The new 140,000-square-meter facility will cater for customers in Western Europe, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain and the U.K. The fulfilment center will have a total storage capacity of 16 ...
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Kering has announced that Cédric Charbit has joined the group's...
Kering has announced that Cédric Charbit has joined the group's executive committee, effective July 1. Charbit, 41, has led Balenciaga, part of the group, since November 2016. He began his career at Printemps in 2001 as luxury goods buyer, later becoming deputy purchasing director of the department store. In 2009, ...
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Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has...
Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has settled a legal dispute with Gianni Lorenzato, a former shareholder and vice president of Lotto. Lorenzato has agreed to sell his remaining stake of 24 percent in a holding company, NexTB, to Tomat on undisclosed terms. Tomat will thus be ...
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OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as...
OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as chief financial officer and Mark Coffield as general manager for Vietnam, where OrthoLite has recently inaugurated a manufacturing plant. Brice has previously worked for The Hershey Company in Asia and South America. Coffield, who will lead Ortholite's new Vietnamese factory, ...
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Stadium Goods, the American sneaker consignment reseller, is partnering with...
Stadium Goods, the American sneaker consignment reseller, is partnering with Sotheby's for an online auction of 100 rare pairs of shoes, with starting bids as high as $80,000. Called “Stadium Goods – The Ultimate Sneaker Collection Online,” the auction runs through July 23 on Sotheby's website. Many of the shoes ...
