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Schuhe24, the German-based online marketplace for independent shoe retailers, is...
Schuhe24, the German-based online marketplace for independent shoe retailers, is going to offer financial support to its members from the next month of June. Schuhe24 is working on the project with a German-based financing portal, called Compeon. Retailers affiliated with Schuhe24 and a similar portal, Outfits24, will be able to ...
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24 Sèvres, the e-commerce site owned by LVMH, has shortened...
24 Sèvres, the e-commerce site owned by LVMH, has shortened its name into “24S.” The site was previously named after Paris' rue de Sèvres, where Le Bon Marché, LVMH's high-end department store, is located. The website was launched two years ago. It sells around 150 brands of clothing, accessories and ...
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Birkenstock Mexico closed 2018 with sales up by 30 percent...
Birkenstock Mexico closed 2018 with sales up by 30 percent from the previous year and expects a further increase of 40 percent by the end of the current year. Pablo Rozada, the division's head of sales, revealed the figures recently in an interview with FashionNetwork.com. Established 15 years ago, the ...
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The German shoe retailing market is increasingly consolidating. Between 2010...
The German shoe retailing market is increasingly consolidating. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of retail companies operating in the sector shrank from 7,250 to around 3,800, according to data published by the Federal Statistical Office. However, the decline did not have a significant impact on the number of individual ...
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In its latest RepTrak survey of 100 Danish companies, the...
In its latest RepTrak survey of 100 Danish companies, the Reputation Institute ranked Ecco second, behind Lego. This was an improvement of seven slots from last year for the big Danish footwear company. RepTrak, short for reputation-tracking, ranks Denmark's companies by seven criteria: products & services, innovation, workplace, governance, citizenship, ...
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Vibram is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Vibram Technological...
Vibram is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Vibram Technological Center (VTC) in Guangzhou, China. The facility is an innovation hub where the Italian brand studies innovative compounds and technologies and creates prototypes of new products prior to launching them on the market. The VTC staff operates in close synergy ...
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The second and last Chinese replica of 10 Corso Como,...
The second and last Chinese replica of 10 Corso Como, the Milanese luxury concept store, opened by the Trendy Group in Shanghai in 2013, will close its doors next month. A more recent replica in Beijing was shut down in 2017.
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Deckers Brands has been awarded damages of $450,000 by a...
Deckers Brands has been awarded damages of $450,000 by a Chicago District Court in a three-year-old lawsuit against an Australian company, called Australian Leather, which has been using the Ugg trade name, claiming that it is a generic reference to a certain type of Australian boots. The court found that ...
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The number of sneaker shops in Spain has increased by...
The number of sneaker shops in Spain has increased by 204 percent over the last four years, according to CMDsport. In January 2016, seven main operators ran a total of 98 stores. In January 2019, numbers had jumped to 15 operators running a total of about 300 stores across the ...
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John Lewis Partnership, which includes John Lewis and Waitrose, has...
John Lewis Partnership, which includes John Lewis and Waitrose, has announced its commitment to have a net zero carbon footprint across all its stores, head offices and distribution centers by 2050. The company aims to decarbonize as much as possible already within the next ten years. Indeed, it plans to ...
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Tempe, the Spanish joint venture of the Inditex Group that...
Tempe, the Spanish joint venture of the Inditex Group that develops the shoes for Zara and its other retail chains, booked a net profit of €113 million last year, 39 percent above the level reached in 2017, on 5.6 percent higher sales of €1.25 billion. The company plans to expand ...
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Tod's is moving the Tokyo flagship store of the homonymous...
Tod's is moving the Tokyo flagship store of the homonymous brand from Omotesando to another area of the city with greater traffic. A similar move was made in Milan, where the brand transferred its store from Via della Spiga to Via Montenapoleone. The brand decided to take advantage of high ...
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The organizers of the Gallery Shoes trade show in Düsseldorf...
The organizers of the Gallery Shoes trade show in Düsseldorf last month judged its results as positive, as the number of visitors reached 9,800, or 300 more than expected, in spite of very bad weather hampering travel to the city. The space in the fairgrounds was fully booked with a ...
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Permira, the investment fund that took over Dr. Martens and...
Permira, the investment fund that took over Dr. Martens and its parent company Airwear International from the Griggs family six years ago, is planning to cash out with a fat return on the investment, according to Sky News. It is reportedly seeking a valuation that would be more than double ...
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Kai Dirks is replacing Michael Stoll at the Hamm-Reno Group...
Kai Dirks is replacing Michael Stoll at the Hamm-Reno Group the end of April as the executive board member in charge of retailing. His tasks will include the repositioning of the Reno banner and the integration of the 80-odd CCC stores in Germany that the group took over a few ...
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M.Moustache is enabling its customers to help save the planet....
M.Moustache is enabling its customers to help save the planet. The French shoe firm has launched a recycling program called Encore, in partnership with I:CO. Two collection points have been installed in its Parisian shops to allow customers to bring back their used shoes. The items can be of other ...
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Le Coq Sportif and Opium, a dedicated sneaker shop in...
Le Coq Sportif and Opium, a dedicated sneaker shop in the dead center of Paris, have collaborated on a limited-edition sneaker. Based on the Freestyle, a mountain-bike shoe from Le Coq's back catalogue, the LCS R1000 was designed in part by – and exists in tribute to – the three ...
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The distinctive sole of Converse shoes cannot be patented in...
The distinctive sole of Converse shoes cannot be patented in the European Union. The General Court of the EU has endorsed an earlier verdict by the EU's Intellectual Property Office that invalidated a 3D trademark for the sole requested by the brand. Carrefour opposed its registration in 2010. Three other ...
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Deichmann placed third in this year's contest for the German...
Deichmann placed third in this year's contest for the German Online Award in the Fashion & Accessories category. Bonprix, a retailer of clothing, shoes and other accessories owned by the Otto Group, won the first prize, followed by Ernsting's Family, a retailer of clothes and accessories for children and women ...
