News Briefs – Page 9
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Amazon cuts an extra 9,000 jobs
Amazon plans a new round of job cuts involving about 9,000 employees, the chief executive, Andy Jassy, informed staff in memo, according to the news agency AP. According to the report the redundancies will mostly impact staff of the cloud services, advertising and Twitch units. In January, the U.S. ...
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ANWR Group strengthens liquidity of affiliated retailers
As the now-restored ability to deliver and, at the same time, unusually early deliveries by manufacturers are currently leading to high inventories at many retail companies and thus to a short-term and seasonal strain on liquidity, German ANWR Group is strengthening its affiliated retailers via the Group’s own DZB Bank ...
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Alvin Sukali to leave Myanmar for Cambodia
The Chinese footwear firm Alvin Sukali will relocate from Myanmar to Cambodia in June creating over 1,000 jobs, the Khmer Times reported citing Cambodia’s ministry of labour and vocational training. The factory, which will be located in Samraong Tong in Kampong Speu province, is expected to produce over 70,000 pairs ...
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Shoe Zone cancels 500,000 shares
Shoe Zone announced the cancellation of 500,000 ordinary shares currently held in treasury. Following the cancellation, the issued share capital of the British footwear retailer now stands at 48,500,000 and Shoe Zone now holds 25,283 shares in treasury. The total voting rights remain unchanged at 48,474,717.
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Permira reportedly interested in Florence
The London-based private equity Permira is interested in Gruppo Florence, an Italian holding company that owns 23 suppliers to the luxury goods industry, including three footwear manufacturers, according to media reports. Florence was created in late 2020 by the Milan-based private equity firm Vam Investments, the Italian state investment firm ...
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Alpargatas takes legal action over missed equity purchase payment
Alpargatas, the Brazilian footwear and apparel group, wants Carlos Roberto Wizard Martins to pay up. In a Sept. 2018 purchase and sale agreement, the investor struck a deal to acquire a 22.5 percent stake in Alpargatas S.A.I.C. from Alpargatas S.A. A first installment of the remaining purchase price equaling Brazilian ...
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Trussardi seeks court protection
The Italian fashion brand Trussardi has asked a Milan-based court to appoint an administrator to manage its debt of €51.1 million. In order to enact the so-called crisis settlement procedure the company’s entire board has resigned. According to the daily Il Sole 24 Ore, the procedure, which is similar to ...
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LVMH launches €1.5bn share buyback
LVMH has begun a €1.5 billion share buyback program. In a statement, the French luxury goods group said it has entrusted an investment service provider with a mandate for the acquisition of up to €1.5 billion of its own shares over a period beginning March 1 and ending on or ...
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Gap France goes into receivership
Wilsam, the company that manages 20 franchised Gap stores in France, has been placed under controlled administration, or receivership, according to a Grenoble-based commercial court. The decision was made following a request made by the company’s manager Patrick Puy as well as by the prosecutor’s office, said the deputy prosecutor, ...
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VF issues €1bn in unsecured senior notes
VF Corporation is issuing unsecured senior notes, whose proceeds will be used to finance general corporate purposes, including the repayment of borrowings under its commercial paper program. The U.S. company has priced €500 million of unsecured senior notes due 2026 at 99.704 percent of the principal amount with a coupon ...
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Loro Piana opens a new footwear factory
Loro Piana, the Italian fashion brand bought by the French luxury goods group LVMH in 2013, has inaugurated a new footwear factory in Porto San Giorgio, in the central Italian region of the Marche. Production will focus on the brand’s White Sole shoes.
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Coats refinances debt from the Texon acquisition
Coats, the British industrial thread and footwear components manufacturer, said that it successfully completed a competitively priced $250 million issue of U.S. private placement (USPP) notes. The issuance, on investment grade terms and heavily oversubscribed, refinances the $240 million facility which funded the acquisition of Texon in July 2022, Coats ...
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Pinko launches the joint venture Pinko Shoes with Eli Group
Cris Conf, the parent company of the Italian fashion brand Pinko, has created the joint venture Pinko Shoes with the objective of achieving €40 million in annual revenues within six years. Cris Conf has a 51 percent stake in the joint venture, while the remaining 49 percent is owned by ...
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Snipes invests in a new logistic center
The sports and lifestyle retailer Snipes is building a new service and logistics center in Bedburg, Germany, in order to be positioned for the planned expansion of the company. The construction is the largest logistics investment ever made by the sneaker and streetwear retailer. According to the company, Snipes is ...
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News briefsBoohoo revamps executive incentive plan after share price drop
Boohoo has launched a new performance plan for senior managers after deciding previous targets were too hard to reach given the collapse in the company’s share price. The British online fashion retailer said its existing incentives had “little or no value” as shares had to reach at least £5 (€5.62) ...
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Walmart may close 3 technology hubs in the U.S.
Walmart plans to close three of its U.S. technology hubs, according to The Wall Street Journal citing memo sent by Suresh Kumar, the global chief technology officer of the American retailer, to staff. The hubs that are due to be closed are located in Austin, Carlsbad and Portland. Walmart will ...
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News briefsNice Footwear’s key shareholders own 97.47% of the company
Following a public tender launched to delist Nice Footwear, 97.47 percent of the capital of the Italian footwear company is owned by its key shareholders as well as 94,94 percent on warrants. The public tender launched by the Italian private equity firm Palladio Holding. It started on Jan. 9 and ...
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Hong Kong Jiahe International obtains financing for Java factory
Hong Kong Jiahe International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Taiwanese shoe manufacturer Yuqi International, which produces outdoor footwear for customers such as Under Armour, Decathlon and The North Face, has obtained funding to build an $83 million shoe factory in Indonesia, Footwearbiz reported. The loan, provided by a pool of ...
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News briefsSosandar plans to raise £4.5m
Sosandar plans to raise gross proceeds of £4.5 million (€5.6m) by issuing new ordinary shares. The British fashion brand plans the placing of at least 18,181,818 new ordinary shares via an accelerated bookbuild at a price of 22 pence (€0.25) per share in order to raise minimum gross proceeds of ...
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JD Sports unveils plans for sales growth, rapid store expansion
JD Sports Fashion has revealed plans to grow revenues and margins by double digits over the next five years alongside a rapid store expansion, The plan also includes capital expenditure of £500-600 million (€560-673m) a year, with 50-60 percent of the spend focused on store expansion in underpenetrated markets. This ...
