News Briefs – Page 53
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CTC, the French-based quality certification agency for leather and leather...
CTC, the French-based quality certification agency for leather and leather products, has opened a new office and laboratory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It will be run by Puneet Singh, who has already managed CTC India. The agency already has 11 other offices in China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia and ...
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Netshoes, the world's largest internet retailer for sporting goods, has...
Netshoes, the world's largest internet retailer for sporting goods, has secured $45 million in new funding from Riverwood Capital and the International Finance Corporation, which belongs to the World Bank, to further expand its presence in Argentina and Mexico. It should also help the Brazilian company to develop its own ...
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The union representatives of Vivarte have asked its new shareholders...
The union representatives of Vivarte have asked its new shareholders to take an attitude of social responsibility in the possible reorganization of the group, which manages 16 shoe and fashion retail chains including André, Minelli, San Marina, La Halle, etc. They complain about a lack of information and consultation on ...
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ANWR Group is putting together a working group to help...
ANWR Group is putting together a working group to help define future strategies. It will be made up of retail members of different sizes from various regions of Germany including Ingo Hänel of Schuh-Beck in Römerstein, Claus Heinrich of Schuh-Heinrich Johann Heinrich from Kiel, Thomas Huber of Schuhhaus Raab in ...
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Four big shareholders of Zalando have sold a total of...
Four big shareholders of Zalando have sold a total of 17.9 million shares, representing 7.3 percent of the equity, through Morgan Stanley. They were sold at an average price of €23.75 to institutional investors through an accelerated private placement process. The sellers are Global Founders, Holtzbrinck Ventures, AI European Holdings ...
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Named after a city in the Piedmont region of Italy,...
Named after a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, Alessandria has taken the place of Alexandria. Calzaturificio Torlasco, an Italian shoemaker in the region, has taken over selected assets of Alexandria Calzaturificio, which went into liquidation a few weeks ago after 70 years in business, reportedly because of ...
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JAB Holdings (former Labelux) is shutting down Zagliani, the Italian...
JAB Holdings (former Labelux) is shutting down Zagliani, the Italian brand of high-end handbags that it bought in 2009, and folding it into Bally. It will continue to use Zagliani's worshop in Milan to make handbags for Bally, including customized products. The integration is being conducted by Giovanni Torchiani, a ...
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Feetz, the U.S.-based company that makes customizable shoes with 3D...
Feetz, the U.S.-based company that makes customizable shoes with 3D printing (Shoe Intelligence no. 17-2+3 of Feb. 3), has closed a round of financing worth $1.25 million, allowing it to start commercial operations later this year. Aside from Uli Becker, a former chief executive of Reebok, the investors are Khosla ...
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SGS, the global inspection and certification company, has announced the...
SGS, the global inspection and certification company, has announced the opening of a new footwear testing laboratory at SGS Gunesli, Istanbul. The lab is located in a geographically strategic spot where it can serve the growing needs of the consumer goods industry in Turkey, Western Asia and Eastern Europe. The ...
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Carlo Pazolini has decided to close down all the 14...
Carlo Pazolini has decided to close down all the 14 stores it has opened in North America since 2011, according to Rbc. Founded by Ilya Reznik in 1991, the brand is one of the largest players in the Russian shoe market with a network of 230 corporate and franchised stores ...
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Groupe Royer has finally reached an agreement for the acquisition...
Groupe Royer has finally reached an agreement for the acquisition of Noël Soccer, the subsidiary of the Noël group that holds the Umbro license for France. Noël is known in the shoe market primarily for its Sledgers and Babybotte brands. As previously reported, a French court pronounced the insolvency of ...
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G-Star Raw will take back fully the development and sale...
G-Star Raw will take back fully the development and sale of its footwear lines from its licensee, Overland Shoes, starting in November. Based in the U.K. and run by a seasoned industry official, Stephen Palmer, Overland has been the licensee of the denim brand for nine years. Overland has been ...
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Tata International has announced that it will establish a new...
Tata International has announced that it will establish a new factory near Chennai. The facility will involve an initial investment of around $4 million and will have an annual production capacity of two million pairs, bringing the group's total shoe production capacity to around 8.5 million pairs a year. The ...
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A new partner is expected to help Fornari, the parent...
A new partner is expected to help Fornari, the parent company of Fornarina, to expand online and in Asian markets, and to get out of insolvency proceedings. Its name should be revealed in the next few weeks, according to the Italian press. Led by Lino Fornari, the company is said ...
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Intertek has inaugurated a new, energy-efficient and environmentally clean leather...
Intertek has inaugurated a new, energy-efficient and environmentally clean leather and footwear testing facility at Dhaka in Bangladesh. The testing group will also offer environmental auditing, testing, safety assessments and technical training services to the growing leather, leathergoods and footwear industry in the country.
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Simple has been reintroduced through a partnership between Harbor Footwear...
Simple has been reintroduced through a partnership between Harbor Footwear and Denis Ryan, the footwear veteran who acquired the Simple trademark and intellectual property rights from Deckers in late 2014. The ethical footwear firm closed in 2011 and is scheduled to relaunch this autumn. The full collection of men's and ...
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Sycamore Partners, which acquired The Jones Group in April 2014...
Sycamore Partners, which acquired The Jones Group in April 2014 for $2.2 billion, appears to be interested in keeping only Nine West, Easy Spirit, Anne Klein and a few other operations. It announced that is studying strategic alternatives for the divestiture of the fashion brands Jones New York, Jones New ...
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Steve Madden has announced that it has acquired the intellectual...
Steve Madden has announced that it has acquired the intellectual property and related assets of Blondo from Regence Footwear and 3074153Canada. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Blondo, a footwear brand specializing in waterproof leather boots, was founded more than a century ago. It sells its products to ...
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Alexandria has announced that it is to close down after...
Alexandria has announced that it is to close down after 70 years in business. The Italian footwear maker, based in Alessandria, in Piedmont, said the decision has been caused by the difficulties caused by the long economic downturn. It was the last remaining large-scale shoe manufacturer in the province of ...
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Shoon is up for sale again. The owners of the...
Shoon is up for sale again. The owners of the English footwear chain have hired advisers at BDO to search for a buyer, less than a year after it was sold to the former bosses of Jones Bootmaker, industry veterans Ken Bartle and Peter Phillips. According to reports in The ...
