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B.A.G., the Italian company that owns the NeroGiardini brand, posted...
B.A.G., the Italian company that owns the NeroGiardini brand, posted a 4 percent decline in sales to €200 million in 2017, blaming the weakness of the Italian market, which represents about 75 percent of its revenues. Exports rose by 20 percent. They were driven by France, Germany, Austria and Belgium, ...
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Buff has opened a store in Barcelona's central Plaza de...
Buff has opened a store in Barcelona's central Plaza de Catalunya in cooperation with Havaianas. The Brazilian brand of rubber sandals will use it only during the summer months.
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Sonja Bata, the widow of Thomas J. Bata and the...
Sonja Bata, the widow of Thomas J. Bata and the founder of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, died at the age of 91. First established in 1995, the museum hosts more than 13,000 shoe models from 45 centuries and from all over the world that she helped collect, frequently ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has been handed a default judgment by a...
Salvatore Ferragamo has been handed a default judgment by a New York court in a counterfeit and trademark infringement lawsuit it filed last year against the 60 unidentified holders of dozens of counterfeit-selling websites, after none of the defendants responded to the lawsuit or appeared in court. The court has ...
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Erica Vilkauls, a former merchandise director of L.K. Bennett, has...
Erica Vilkauls, a former merchandise director of L.K. Bennett, has been appointed chief executive of the British brand of shoes and accessories. Next month, she will replace Darren Topp, who has held the post since September 2016. Topp was credited with an outstanding job at the company after it returned ...
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sports and lifestyle footwear, has...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sports and lifestyle footwear, has opened its 9th store in Barcelona, raising the number of directly operated stores in Spain to 15. Located in the Splau di Cornelià shopping center in the district of Llobregat, the 45-square-meter experiential store makes use of methacrylate to spread ...
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Skechers was honored as Ladies Brand of the Year for...
Skechers was honored as Ladies Brand of the Year for the second year in a row in the British Footwear Industry Awards. Among other honors, it was also praised as Leader in Customer Service for the first time.
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Converse opened a hotel-inspired pop-up in a five-floor building in...
Converse opened a hotel-inspired pop-up in a five-floor building in London, in the heart of Shoreditch, on Feb. 16-17. The project, hosted at 155 New North Rd, Hoxton, celebrated in particular the brand's One Star trainers. The two-day “Converse One Star Hotel” featured exclusive One Star products from the spring ...
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Permactum, a new holding company formed last summer to carry...
Permactum, a new holding company formed last summer to carry out the reorganization of Schlatholst, has filed for insolvency proceedings. The Germany shoe retailer has reduced the number of its stores to 12 from 22 in 2015, when it first filed for insolvency.
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Cheaneys is opening its ninth store in London in October,...
Cheaneys is opening its ninth store in London in October, with a different design. It will join Paul Smith, Nike, Carhartt, Sweaty Betty and other single-brand stores in a new shopping district in London, called the Coal Drops Yard, near King's Cross and the St. Pancras railway station.
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The outgoing chief executive and managing director of Tod's, Stefano...
The outgoing chief executive and managing director of Tod's, Stefano Sincini, will receive a €3.7 million severance package when he leaves the group at the next annual shareholder meeting, to be held on April 16 or 26. The package includes €1.8 million for a two-year non competition clause valid in ...
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A new Clergerie Paris flagship store has just opened at...
A new Clergerie Paris flagship store has just opened at 901 Madison Avenue in New York, joining 15 other stores that have been trading under the Robert Clergerie banner in the U.S., France, Switzerland, Spain and the U.K. At the age of 83, the founder of the brand, Robert Clergerie ...
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Crocs cannot protect its namesake clog design in the European...
Crocs cannot protect its namesake clog design in the European Union. This is what the General Court of the European Union stated in a ruling on March 14. The EU court said that other shoemakers had seen the design of Crocs' clogs long before the company filed for registration, specifically ...
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Kavat received its second EU Ecolabel for continued commitment to...
Kavat received its second EU Ecolabel for continued commitment to high quality and sustainable production, despite tougher requirements. In 2008, the Swedish company was recognized with the European award for a first model using eco-performance leather, a substrate free from 200 banned chemicals. Since 1992, the European Commission grants the ...
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Kyaia, the largest Portuguese footwear group and the parent company...
Kyaia, the largest Portuguese footwear group and the parent company of Foreva and Fly London, is supporting Satisfibre, a national project working on a bioengineered material that mimics the qualities of leather. Satisfibre is a spin-off of the Center for Biological Engineering at the Universidade do Minho, in northern Portugal. ...
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Gore-Tex has enlisted a Norwegian singer and composer, Sigrid, as...
Gore-Tex has enlisted a Norwegian singer and composer, Sigrid, as its new brand ambassador. It says it selected her to appeal to a younger and more urban consumer target. The 21-year-old artist, who won this year's BBC Sound Award, recently participated in the launch of the Gore-Tex Infinium range of ...
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The organizers of the Gallery Shoes show in Düsseldorf concluded...
The organizers of the Gallery Shoes show in Düsseldorf concluded that its format has become “established and accepted” based on the results of its second edition earlier this month. A total of around 9,800 professional visitors attended the fair, 6.5 percent more than at its first session last August, placing ...
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Skechers' management told investors at an investors' conference organized by...
Skechers' management told investors at an investors' conference organized by UBS that it feels well-positioned to raise its operating margin from 10 percent to 12-13 percent after its heavy investments outside the U.S. One of the reasons is that the brand can obtain higher price points abroad, especially in Asia, ...
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Tanya Heath, the Paris-based developer of women's shoes with removable...
Tanya Heath, the Paris-based developer of women's shoes with removable heels, is relocating their production from France to Portugal. The move has allowed her to reduce prices on all models by between 20 and 50 percent. The mechanisms and the heels will continue to be made at the company's own ...
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A group of investigative journalists led by Mediapart has discovered...
A group of investigative journalists led by Mediapart has discovered a scheme under which Kering may have evaded taxes totalling €2.5 billion since 2002. The bulk of the amount is said to be owed to Italian tax authorities, which started an investigation last November, including €1.4 billion for Gucci and ...
