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The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazialian e-tailer, is...
The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazialian e-tailer, is escalating. As reported in our last issue, Magazine Luiza initially made a bid for Netshoes at $2.00 per share, valuing the company at $62 million. Late last month, Grupo SBF, which owns the big Centauro chain of sporting goods stores, ...
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Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first...
Superga, a brand of BasicNet, will be opening its first French monobrand store at the end of July. As reported by fashionnetwork.com, the 50-square-meter shop will be located in Paris' Marais district, at 12 rue du Temple.
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Sugi International, the footwear trading company based in Hong Kong,...
Sugi International, the footwear trading company based in Hong Kong, has signed a two-year, worldwide agreement with Franklin & Marshall, which will also see Sugi take over the brand by 2022. Franklin & Marshall, founded in 1999 by Giuseppe Albarelli and Andrea Pensiero, is an Italian streetwear and sportswear manufacturer ...
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HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a...
HDS/L, the German shoe and leathergoods industry association, and a German trade union, IG BCE, concluded last month a new collective labor agreement, valid until 2025, for the German footwear industry. In September 2016, IG BCE had terminated all collective agreements as well as wage and salary agreements for the ...
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Last month, Birkenstock received the renowned Art Directors Club award,...
Last month, Birkenstock received the renowned Art Directors Club award, for a series of short films called Birkenstories. The films, produced in-house, show longtime fans of Birkenstock's sandals from around the world. The Art Directors contest is one of the biggest creative competitions in the German-speaking world and is considered ...
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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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VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global...
VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global supply chain, effective June 1. He replaces Tom Glaser, who has left VF after 18 years to take over the role of chief operations officer at Tapestry, formerly known as Coach Inc. Bailey has spent his entire career in manufacturing ...
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Ferdinand Richter, the Austrian children's shoe producer, has appointed another...
Ferdinand Richter, the Austrian children's shoe producer, has appointed another seasoned executive, Thomas Ridder, to the position of joint managing director. He will work together with Josef Renner, who had been appointed to the same position in April. Renner has been involved in sales at Legero since 2001. Prior to ...
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La Halle has announced the departure of Philippe Thirache, who...
La Halle has announced the departure of Philippe Thirache, who has been the president of the big French apparel and footwear retailer since 2016. Thirache has been replaced with immediate effect by Stéphane Roche, who has been the managing director of Vivarte, La Halle's parent company, for the past two ...
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Inditex, the owner of Zara, has announced the promotion of...
Inditex, the owner of Zara, has announced the promotion of Carlos Crespo to chief executive. Crespo, who was most recently the company's chief operating officer, will take over some of the functions of Pablo Isla, who had the dual role of chief executive and chairman. The company is now splitting ...
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Hugs & Co., a British footwear brand, has launched the...
Hugs & Co., a British footwear brand, has launched the TS1, a new environmentally friendly driving loafer made with old tires. The shoe combines Italian leather uppers with soles made from waste tire material. According to the brand, the repurposed material adds durability and grip. The TS1 collection comprises eight ...
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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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Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has...
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's chief executive of consumer operations worldwide, has announced that his company should be delivering packages with drones “within months.” Speaking at Re:Mars – the e-tail behemoth's conference on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, held on June 4-7 in Las Vegas – Wilke said that Amazon's latest ...
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The Signa Retail group is taking over all the shares...
The Signa Retail group is taking over all the shares it doesn't own in the joint venture it formed last year with Hudson's Bay Company of Canada, called Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, including the real estate that was previously shared. It is reportedly paying about one billion euros for the assets. ...
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Fabi has commissioned the agency of Rainer Barth with the distribution...
Fabi has commissioned the agency of Rainer Barth with the distribution of its main brand in the German, Swiss and Austrian markets, starting with the spring/summer 2020 season, according to Schuhkurier. Modeist, the Munich-based agency of Marion Timothy, will market the company's other more casual brand, Barracuda. Due to ongoing difficulties ...
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After a beta test in France that began a year...
After a beta test in France that began a year ago, Google is taking its Shopping Actions experience to the U.S. With this application, customers are able to buy products online from a brand or a retailer through their own Google account, without registering for the service and without leaving ...
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According to a German newspaper, Express, Birkenstock wants to expand...
According to a German newspaper, Express, Birkenstock wants to expand its operations in Cologne, where it will be moving some 200 employees currently working in Rahms near Neustadt-Wied. Consequently, the staff of Birkenstock's site in Rahms will be cut in half before its eventual shutdown in the future. As of ...
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According to a recently published survey by Lyst, the London-based...
According to a recently published survey by Lyst, the London-based search engine for fashion items, the share of consumers searching for fair and sustainable fashion increased by 80 percent in 2018, as compared to the previous year. Finnish consumers were found to have the strongest awareness for sustainable clothes, followed ...
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Tapestry, the New York based luxury accessories and lifestyle group...
Tapestry, the New York based luxury accessories and lifestyle group whose holdings include Stuart Weitzman, has hired Thomas A. Glaser to be its chief operations officer. Glaser will have full charge of the supply chain and functional oversight of product development and manufacturing resources, distribution, logistics, replenishment, e-commerce fulfillment and ...
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Italy is suffering from a 30 percent unemployment rate among...
Italy is suffering from a 30 percent unemployment rate among young people, 7 percent higher than the EU average. Nevertheless, Italian companies often find it hard to recruit, especially in certain sectors, including shoe and leather goods firms. According to an estimate by Fondazione Altagamma, based on Unioncamere figures, Italian ...
