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Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed...
Schuhe.de, the ANWR Group's fast-growing German internet platform, has signed a cooperation agreement with Mirapodo. Retailers affiliated with Schuhe.de will be able to offer their product lines through Mirapodo. ANWR has recently signed similar agreements with Amazon, Zalando, eBay and Spartoo, the French online shoe retailer that has agreed to ...
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Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and leathergoods industry association, will organize...
Apiccaps, the Portuguese footwear and leathergoods industry association, will organize a trade mission to Ireland at the end of November, presenting collections and staging B2B meetings at the Portuguese Embassy in Dublin. Portugal's shoe exports to Ireland have grown by 60 percent to 576,000 pairs since 2010, but the U.K., ...
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Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to...
Timberland has appointed Christopher Raeburn, the British fashion designer, to be its first global artistic director. He will be splitting his time between his own Christopher Raeburn brand, based in London, and Timberland's offices in New Hampshire, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Known for his green philosophy and use of recycled ...
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Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez,...
Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez, previously working as senior buying director for Europe and the Middle East at Nike, became vice president for Zalando's product line for woman. Diez succeeds Dalbir Bains, who left Zalando after four years. Before her career at Nike, Diez worked ...
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The European Commission has approved a set of free trade...
The European Commission has approved a set of free trade and investment agreements with Vietnam, submitting them to the member states and the European Parliament for final endorsement. Under the free trade agreement, both Vietnam and the European Union will eliminate 99 percent of their import duties on each other ...
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Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon....
Ara has opened a store in the center of Lisbon. It's the fourth store directly operated by the German brand in Portugal, where it also has a factory producing 7,000 pairs per year. It also has ten shop-in-shops in local footwear stores.
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Is Brazil's export business finally turning around? The country's shoes...
Is Brazil's export business finally turning around? The country's shoes exports rose on a sequential basis by 11.2 percent in volume and 31 percent in value during the month of October, as compared to the previous month, reaching a level of 11 million pairs worth $93.8 million. As compared to ...
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Setting its sights on China, Australian-based R.M. Williams signed up...
Setting its sights on China, Australian-based R.M. Williams signed up to sell its boots and leathergoods through Secoo, which claims to be Asia's largest e-commerce platform for luxury goods, notably as measured as sales per order. Three R.M. Williams collections by the Austrialian companies – Burnished, Craftsman and Signature Craftsman ...
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The Lorenz Shoe Group has received the prestigious Austrian Hermes...
The Lorenz Shoe Group has received the prestigious Austrian Hermes prize for economic achievement in the “successful family enterprise” category. It was founded by the Högl and Lorenz families in 1982, but the Högl family withdrew in 2000, with the Lorenz and Bachmaier families taking over all the shares and ...
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Dragon, the Formula E (electric) auto-racing team, will now be...
Dragon, the Formula E (electric) auto-racing team, will now be known as Geox Dragon, thanks to a new long-term agreement with the Italian shoemaker. Geox will be supplying the Dragon team with outerwear and, of course, footwear. The Geox sole, with its heat- and humidity-reducing membrane, will be put to ...
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Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker got the highest number of searches...
Balenciaga's Triple S sneaker got the highest number of searches for shoe styles on Instagram through Lyst, which was used by 80 million shoppers in 120 countries so far this year for all kinds of fashion products. Balenciaga's ugly and chunky sneaker was followed in Lyst's ranking by the simpler ...
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Sympatex Technologies recently received the international B-Corp quality seal for...
Sympatex Technologies recently received the international B-Corp quality seal for above-average corporate management with a comprehensive approach and a social interest that extends outside the company itself. Sympatex is one of the first German companies in the textile industry to receive the seal, which rewards corporate concepts that, more than ...
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Bernd Hummel, the longtime licensee of Pentland Group for the...
Bernd Hummel, the longtime licensee of Pentland Group for the Kangaroos brand based in Germany, has widened the territory of the license to the markets of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which was previously handled by another licensee, Viking Footwear. To help service the Nordic market, Bernd Hummel will work ...
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Famous for its quirky ideas for the brand, Bernd Hummel...
Famous for its quirky ideas for the brand, Bernd Hummel has come out with a limited edition of 408 pairs of Kangaroos sneakers, called Moonshine, whose colors and graphics are said to have been inspired by the illegal night-time production of alcohol in the U.S. The shoes have been placed ...
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Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in...
Deichmann is planning to open a big flagship store in Munich around July 2019. Making ample use of large screens and omnichannel tools, it will occupy more than 2,000 square meters on two floors in the Joseph Pschorr Haus at 19-21, Neuhauser Strasse. The new flagship will take the place ...
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Deckers' latest lawsuit reveals that counterfeiters of its Ugg brand...
Deckers' latest lawsuit reveals that counterfeiters of its Ugg brand boots typically change the name of their domain or marketplace and move funds offshore as soon they realize that a suit is coming. To counter such tactics, Deckers is asking an Illinois District court to grant certain requests before the ...
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The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of...
The Brazilian e-tailer Netshoes has reported a net loss of 136.4 million Brazilian reais (€31.9m-$36.5m) for the third quarter of this year, roughly triple the net loss reported a year ago. Sales for the period were down 3 percent to R$ 417.8 million (€97.8m-$111.7m), while the gross margin shrank fourfold ...
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The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show...
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, which was acquired by the Premium Group in July 2015 and is held at the Arena Berlin fairgrounds, will not take place next January. According to the organizers of the show, the break will be ...
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Jeton Bujupi, former chief executive at Hamm Market Solutions, responsible...
Jeton Bujupi, former chief executive at Hamm Market Solutions, responsible for operations and sales, will be leaving the company at his own request at the end of February 2019. Bujupi has worked for the German-based family business for the past 20 years. Since 2003, he has been a member of the ...
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Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to...
Zalando is launching a new strategy, called Connected Retail, to integrate online and offline channels as part of its evolution from an online retailer to an open ecosystem, or platform. Through Connected Retail, Zalando's fashion partners can take orders from Zalando customers themselves and ship the goods directly from their ...
