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Giannico has chosen Roveda, the footwear manufacturer based in Parabiago,...
Giannico has chosen Roveda, the footwear manufacturer based in Parabiago, near Milan, to make its shoes. Roveda, owned by Chanel, will make Giannico's shoes starting with its spring/summer 2018 collection. The Giannico shoe brand was launched by Nicolò Beretta in 2013. Its first collection was presented at the fashion weeks ...
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Deckers Brands' licensing deal with BBC International for Teva children's...
Deckers Brands' licensing deal with BBC International for Teva children's shoes will be terminated at the end of this year, according to Footwear News. Product development, production and distribution will be brought in-house.
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Bernd Hillen, the seasoned former executive of Birkenstock and Berkemann,...
Bernd Hillen, the seasoned former executive of Birkenstock and Berkemann, is adding the distribution in Germany and Austria of Simple Shoes and the Samuel Hubbard collection of “ridiculously comfortable” shoes from the U.S., to the previously announced distribution of Blundstone. As previously reported, he is now running Central Trade Germany, ...
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Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin...
Toms opened a pop-up store in the center of Berlin in March, and it will remain open until the end of September. Toms EMEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam, does not plan to open any other mono-brand stores in Germany. It currently sells its products to roughly 750 doors in the ...
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Berluti is expanding into e-commerce. The Italian-French fashion firm owned...
Berluti is expanding into e-commerce. The Italian-French fashion firm owned by LVMH unveiled its new online store during the recent Men's Fashion Week in Paris. Berluti was founded in 1895 as an elite men's shoe cobbler. Since 2011, it has expanded its range to include luxury menswear, leathergoods and accessories ...
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Zalando and Bestseller United, a Danish clothing group, have entered...
Zalando and Bestseller United, a Danish clothing group, have entered into a joint venture agreement for the shared ownership of FashionTrade.com, the online fashion marketplace founded by Bestseller in 2015. Zalando enters into the joint venture with a capital increase at FashionTrade, which will boost the growth of the B2B ...
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The high-end footwear manufacturing cluster near Venice is scoring better...
The high-end footwear manufacturing cluster near Venice is scoring better than the rest of Italy, judging from the figures announced by Acrib, the association grouping shoe manufacturers located along the Brenta River. Their turnover grew last year by 6.2 percent, rising for the first time above the €2 billion threshold. ...
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The French Vivarte group has sold Kookaï, a big chain...
The French Vivarte group has sold Kookaï, a big chain of discount apparel shops, to an Australian company, Magi, that runs 39 Kookaï shops in its country. Vivarte's top management says it plans to examine any offers for two others of its assets – the André chain of shoe shops ...
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Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event...
Birkenstock organized for the first time a special two-day event for buyers in the Tuileries Gardens during the recent Paris Fashion Week. It also exhibited at the Seek and Premium shows during the recent Berlin Fashion Week. It has confirmed its participation in the new German trade show, Gallery Shoes, ...
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Marcato Capital Management has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Brand...
Marcato Capital Management has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Brand to sell itself at an attractive valuation or face a battle to oust the entire board of directors. An activist investor from San Francisco, Marcato said in a letter in June that that it was concerned about what it called ...
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The Brantano chain in the U.K. has closed its remaining...
The Brantano chain in the U.K. has closed its remaining 69 stores, resulting in the dismissal of about 900 employees. The shoe retail chain went into administration, a form of bankruptcy, on March 22. Alteri, the chain's private equity owners, has said the company suffered from the sharp fall in ...
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Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store,...
Carl-August Seibel and Philip Seibel will open a sneaker store, called Fourty Tree, in Hauenstein on July 22. Covering 200 square meters, the store will feature apparel and shoes of brands such as Adidas, Puma, Nike, Reebok and Diadora. Carl-August Seibel is the chief executive of the Josef Seibel Group, ...
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Elisabet will be manufacturing children's shoes for Tommy Hilfiger starting...
Elisabet will be manufacturing children's shoes for Tommy Hilfiger starting with the spring/summer 2018 collection. The agreement covers Europe, Middle East and Africa. The first Tommy Hilfiger by Elisabet collection was presented at Pitti Bimbo in Florence on June 22. Elisabet is based in Monte Urano, near Fermo, Italy.
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Leomil will be offering a new line of children's shoes...
Leomil will be offering a new line of children's shoes in various European markets and the Middle East in the early winter of 2018 that is inspired by Shimmer & Shine, a popular animated pre-school cartoon series by Nickelodeon. It will be an extension of a partnership with Viacom International ...
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Eram will be selling its products online in China via...
Eram will be selling its products online in China via the Boutique France operated by the French Post Office on the Tmall internet platform. Eram is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. Tmall is the marketplace for foreign companies of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. Tmall is also a doorway ...
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Colette, the famous Parisian store, is going to close its...
Colette, the famous Parisian store, is going to close its doors on Dec. 20, after 20 successful years of operation, simply because its founder and buyer, Colette Rousseaux, is going to retire. A terse press release says she “has arrived at an age where it is the time for her ...
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The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six...
The Hamm Reno Group has confirmed the takeover of six Vögele shoe stores in Austria. Schuh & Schuh PKTS, the Austrian company formerly known as Vögele Shoes, filed for insolvency at the beginning of this year. An out-of-court restructuring process was not successful and the group did not find an ...
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Zalando continues its shopping spree with the takeover of yet...
Zalando continues its shopping spree with the takeover of yet another start-up, Anatwine. The European e-commerce giant first acquired a 20 percent stake in this British software firm in May, but announced in July that it was taking over the company entirely. The purchase price has not been made public. ...
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Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently...
Vögele Shoes is continuing its expansion in Switzerland. It recently opened a new store in Zurich based on a hybrid physical and internet model. Through an information point, clients can get access to an app in the store and take a look at the complete product range. The customer can ...
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Marc Preusser will be the new German country manager for...
Marc Preusser will be the new German country manager for Fitflop, replacing Mirko Ostendorfer after he leaves at the end of September. Preusser has worked for Levi's, VF Corporation and Desigual.
