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Diadora, which posted a 6.5 percent sales increase to €168...
Diadora, which posted a 6.5 percent sales increase to €168 million in 2018, is still doing well in 2019, according to a report by fashionmagazine.it and the statements of the brand's president, Enrico Moretti Polegato. The e-commerce share jumped by 65 percent last year and accounted for 6 percent of ...
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Obuv Rossii posted a 161.8 percent hike in net profit...
Obuv Rossii posted a 161.8 percent hike in net profit for the first quarter of 2019, as compared to the same period of the previous year. The Russian shoe retailing generated earnings of 217 million rubles (€3.02m-$3.39m) during the period, compared with 83 million rubles in the first quarter of ...
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Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at...
Asos is reportedly planning to cut around 100 jobs at its London head office in Camden, many of them in the marketing department. The last set of interim results, which the online retailer released in March, showed a drop of 87 percent in its pre-tax profits. The company has been ...
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The ANWR Group, the voluntary consortium of independent retailers, celebrated its 100th anniversary...
The ANWR Group, the voluntary consortium of independent retailers, celebrated its 100th anniversary at the “Elbphilharmonie” (Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall) in Hamburg on July 1. ANWR invited 900 guests, including retail members, former chief executives, the descendants of founding members, entrepreneurs of the shoe industry and members of various associations. The German minister for economic ...
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The Austrian shoe market decreased by 2.5 percent to €1.3...
The Austrian shoe market decreased by 2.5 percent to €1.3 billion in 2018, as compared to the previous year. According to RegioData, which analyses the Austrian shoe market every year, people living in or visiting Austria spend about €1.6 billion for shoes per year. Online retail sales of shoes are ...
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Kering is planning to relocate the majority of its Swiss...
Kering is planning to relocate the majority of its Swiss logistic operations to Italy between 2020 and 2022. The project will be implemented gradually over the next three years. The new Italian hub will be based at Trecate near Novara, in Italy's northwest, and the move will result in an ...
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Lubrizol is promoting its portfolio of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) for...
Lubrizol is promoting its portfolio of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) for performance footwear applications, highlighting advantages in terms of environmental sustainability. According to Lubrizol, its innovative advanced polymers enable the development a nearly 100 percent TPU shoe that is recyclable while still meeting performance requirements. Data from the U.S. Department of ...
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Vapesol, the Portuguese maker of soles, has launched the first...
Vapesol, the Portuguese maker of soles, has launched the first edition of its own design competition, called Academia Vapesol. The participants have to design shoes for men and women for the autumn/winter 2020/2021 season. The prototypes have to include a sole from Vapesol's catalog. The winner will receive €1,000 and ...
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Vagabond International will take over Vagabond Schuhvertrieb, the sales company...
Vagabond International will take over Vagabond Schuhvertrieb, the sales company that handles the distribution of Vagabond's products in Germany and Austria, on June 1, 2020. For many years, Vagabond and Tygesen Company, a distributor from Denmark, were equally involved through a shared ownership agreement, which will be terminated in June ...
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A sculpture and film commissioned to celebrate the centenary of...
A sculpture and film commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Satra, the independent research and testing organization, have been completed. The sculpture, called No Compromise, was recently unveiled by His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. Martin Steele – a sculptor who is based, like Satra itself, in the English ...
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Camper is looking for a new creative director following the...
Camper is looking for a new creative director following the departure of Romain Kremer, who last signed off the Spanish company's autumn/winter 2019/20 collection. He had been working with the company since 2009, acting as a consultant until he was made creative director in 2014.
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The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has launched a contest called Incredible...
The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has launched a contest called Incredible Girls of the Future for women aged 16 to 25 years who aspire to become entrepreneurs. The contestants have to develop a fashion app by July, the first of its kind to support sustainable development in the industry. The winner ...
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Desma has started to build a new factory at its...
Desma has started to build a new factory at its production site in Achim, near Bremen. The new factory building will have an area of 12,000 square meters with an additional 4,500 square meters of office space. The company plans to conclude the project by autumn 2020. The so-called “factory ...
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The number of brick-and-mortar stores for footwear and clothing has...
The number of brick-and-mortar stores for footwear and clothing has shrunk considerably in Italy in the last eight years. Since 2011, 3,300 shoe stores and over 13,000 clothing stores have been closed, according to a study by Confesercenti, the Italian retailers' association. On the other hand, the share taken by ...
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Manolo Blahnik's creations will be on display at the Wallace...
Manolo Blahnik's creations will be on display at the Wallace Collection in London, next to works of art from the museum's collection. The exhibition, entitled “An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection,” will run from June 10 to Sept. 1. Besides presenting the creative process of the Spanish ...
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Bikkembergs has entrusted the production and worldwide distribution of children's...
Bikkembergs has entrusted the production and worldwide distribution of children's shoes to Elisabet, the shoe manufacturer based in Monte Urano, in Italy's Marche region. The contract will start with the spring/summer 2020 collection, which will be presented at Pitti Bimbo in Florence, on June 20-22, 2019.
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Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that changed ownership and...
Görtz, the big German shoe retailer that changed ownership and management last year, and BNS Bergal, the German company behind the Nico and Solitaire brands of footwear accessories, have developed a new line of shoe care products for sneakers. It will be available in all Görtz stores from June and ...
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Birkenstock recently opened its manufacturing sites in Görlitz and Bernstadt...
Birkenstock recently opened its manufacturing sites in Görlitz and Bernstadt to a group of journalists from 13 countries, as reported by Fashion Network. The journalists were given a tour of the company's facilities in May. It was the first time that the company had granted access to its production facilities ...
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In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram...
In a further step toward becoming an online marketplace, Instagram has launched its own internet retail account internationally under @shop. Its own team recommends products such as shoes, handbags and pullovers, tracking trends and posting their pictures on its social media platform, which is owned by Facebook, just like its ...
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Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because...
Zalando wants to reinforce its partnership with brick-and-mortar stores because it is losing about 20-30 million transactions per year, which equals about €1 billion in sales, due to a lack of stock in its own warehouses. Zalando is already working with more than 1,000 shops in Germany, but wants to ...
