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Tod's has revealed a new concept called Tod's Factory, which...
Tod's has revealed a new concept called Tod's Factory, which consists of mini-collections designed by different talents. The first designer in the series will be Alessandro Dell'Acqua. In mid-November, the Italian fashion house will start selling the Alessandro Dell'Acqua x Tod's collection, which comprises seven items of clothing and nine ...
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The Cambodian garment and footwear industries have a new monthly...
The Cambodian garment and footwear industries have a new monthly minimum wage. The country's Labor Minister has announced that the minimum salary will be $182, which represents a 7 percent increase from the current amount of $170. The new monthly minimum wage will be effective Jan. 1, 2019. In 2012, ...
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Stonefly has hired a Canadian-based distributor, Sole Mio Footwear, to...
Stonefly has hired a Canadian-based distributor, Sole Mio Footwear, to market its shoes in North America. That company also distributes Art, Neosens and Loints of Holland. Stonefly had a strong position in the comfort segment of the shoe market in the early part of the millennium, with annual sales of ...
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Jan Marc Stührmann, chief executive of the Canvasco and Tobago...
Jan Marc Stührmann, chief executive of the Canvasco and Tobago brands of handbags, has launched a new footwear label together with Friedmann von Stein, well known in the shoe industry for his work on brands like Joop, Bogner, Nurage and Marc Cain. The new label, called Mythoo, will be priced below ...
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Toni Pons' new distribution center in Catalonia, Spain, has storage...
Toni Pons' new distribution center in Catalonia, Spain, has storage capacity for up to 100,000 pairs of shoes, which will allow the company to expand the store franchising side of its business. Located in Girona, near the corporate headquarters of the Spanish brand of lounge shoes, the distribution center covers ...
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Geox has recruited an Italian freestyle windsurfing champion, Riccardo Marca,...
Geox has recruited an Italian freestyle windsurfing champion, Riccardo Marca, as the new brand ambassador for its “Geox Next Generation” project. The brand is recruiting young, talented Italian athletes whose lifestyle and passion for sport reflects a pursuit of freedom and wellbeing, and Marca, aged 23, is the first to ...
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Want Shoes, a shoe retailer in Cologne that started selling...
Want Shoes, a shoe retailer in Cologne that started selling its women's products three years ago simultaneously via Instagram and through its own physical shoe store, has now launched its first online store, want-shoes.de, offering the same brands that are sold in the store, including Pomme d'Or, Fru.it, Ash, Aeyde, ...
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Consumers in Europe predominantly look for comfort in shoes. This...
Consumers in Europe predominantly look for comfort in shoes. This is one of the key findings from the three-year project Fit to Comfort (Fit2Com), funded by the European Commission's Erasmus + program. The results of the project were presented in a workshop on “Skills and Competencies of the future” last ...
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Selfridges, one of the few major department store organizations that...
Selfridges, one of the few major department store organizations that are performing well, has reported a slightly increased net profit of £181 million (€205.6m-$235.0m) on 11.5 percent higher sales of £1.75 billion (€2.0bn-$2.3bn) for the financial year ended Feb. 3. The management told The Times that one of the factors ...
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The last edition of Mosshoes, one of the major shoe...
The last edition of Mosshoes, one of the major shoe shows in Moscow, closed on Sept. 13 with stable attendance by about 12,000 visitors. The show hosted more than 1,000 brands from 30 countries.
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Ron Fromm is retiring at the end of this year...
Ron Fromm is retiring at the end of this year as president and chief executive of the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (Ffany) after four years in the post. A veteran of the American footwear sector, he worked for many years for Brown Shoe Co., now called Caleres, building ...
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Eram, the French shoe manufacturer and retailer that took over...
Eram, the French shoe manufacturer and retailer that took over Mellow Yellow in 2011, has decided to stop marketing a line of clothing under the brand after offering a big collection for the autumn/winter 2017/18 season. Run since last June by François Feijoo, a former general manager of the André ...
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Timberland has opened a temporary space in the heart of...
Timberland has opened a temporary space in the heart of Milan, in Piazza XXV Aprile 9, exclusively designed for women, under the artistic direction of Saturnino Celani. The event, which will run until Oct. 21, is part of a Timberland Studio project and follows similar events in London, Amsterdam and ...
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Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) is launching a special section on its...
Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) is launching a special section on its luxury Net-a-Porter women's website to celebrate its partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity that helps grant wishes to ill children in the U.K. The website section offers 16 pieces of jewelry taking inspiration from the Make-A-Wish logo and star, ...
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Skechers has helped 583,000 pets in shelters in the U.S.,...
Skechers has helped 583,000 pets in shelters in the U.S., including saving the lives of around 241,000 animals, through its $3 million donation to Best Friends Animal Society, an American non-profit organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in shelters. Best Friends has also used Skechers' contributions ...
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Moritz Hamm assumed on Aug. 1 the position of chief...
Moritz Hamm assumed on Aug. 1 the position of chief executive of Hamm Market Solutions, the German-based footwear licensee for Gant and previously also for Napapijri. He has been a member of the executive board for four years. In his new position as CEO, he succeeds his father, Hans-Peter Hamm, ...
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Schuhe24, the online marketplace for independent shoe retailers, will launch...
Schuhe24, the online marketplace for independent shoe retailers, will launch its first private label for women, called Franz Ferdinand, in time for the spring/summer 2019 season. Consumer prices for the collection, which is made up of 50 shoe models, including fashion and comfort shoes, range from €40 to €90. In ...
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Birkenstock will invest about €3 million in a new “social...
Birkenstock will invest about €3 million in a new “social building” with dressing rooms, sanitary facilities and showers for roughly 650 employees who work at its production site in Görlitz, Germany. The building will also include a lunch and rest room with an accompanying outdoor area. Due to its strong ...
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Benjamin Krümel, 38, assumed this week the position of international...
Benjamin Krümel, 38, assumed this week the position of international chief procurement officer at Deichmann. He will also be a member of Deichmann's executive board, and he will be supporting the company's internationalization. Krümel worked previously as vice president of Zalando in charge of men's products. He joined Zalando as ...
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Allbirds has opened its first New York flagship. The 4,800-square-foot...
Allbirds has opened its first New York flagship. The 4,800-square-foot store of the eco-friendly footwear firm, headquartered in San Francisco, is located at 73 Spring Street, in NYC's SoHo area. The store reflects the new retail strategy that the company is planning to roll out in a number of new ...
